Coronavirus

Airplac's Printfoam substrate: 100% recyclable

Airplac capitalises on bespoke foamboard offering

Airplac is reporting burgeoning demand for its made-to-measure foamboard due to the Covid-19 pandemic and resulting demand for new types of products in retail and leisure environments.

Doel: "The industry has changed so much, but the trade still has so much to offer"

FPS boss looks to flexible future

A specialist in freelance print workers believes that changes caused by the Covid-19 pandemic will result in more flexible working in future.

Printing Expo: like a normal trade show, but virtual

Muller signs up for virtual expo

Online trade show Printing Expo has signed up Muller Martini as a Premier Partner, with a huge virtual showroom in the works.

Claus Bolza-Schünemann (left): evaluating various scenarios

Koenig & Bauer gains headroom with new loan

Koenig & Bauer has applied for a German government backed KfW loan to help it ride out the coronavirus crisis.

MacMillan: confident that the combo will create an even stronger company

HH Global in mega-merger

HH Global is taking over its much larger rival InnerWorkings in a $177m marketing services mega-merger.

The firm will invest in it's UK manufacturing facility

UK issues £90m facemask contract

German-headquartered medical and safety technology business Dräger has won a €100m (£89.6m) contract from the UK government for facemasks and will expand its UK facility as a result.

Messe: new measures for operation

Drupa shortened to nine days

Drupa has reduced the duration of next year’s show from 11 to nine days and has acknowledged that fewer international visitors are likely to attend due to the ongoing effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Mail-A-Mask: available in runs from 1,000 into the millions

Go Inspire puts masks in mailings

Go Inspire Group has used the latest government guidance around face coverings to offer clients an innovative new promo route – Mail-A-Mask.

Nettl: 14 new partners signed up in the UK

Grafenia flexes finances with new bond issue

Grafenia has put in place a facility to issue up to £50m in ‘perpetual bonds‘ on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, with £2m raised via an initial £3m issue, to support working capital and the group’s...

Drupa: hall layouts currently being reviewed

Drupa loses two more press manufacturers

Two more press manufacturers have pulled out of Drupa 2021.