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Group produces more than 1bn metres of gift wrap every year

IG warns on profits due to supply chain crisis

IG Design Group's share price has slumped after the group issued a profit warning due to the impact of supply chain disruption and input cost increases.

Packaging was Essentra's biggest business unit last year

Essentra refocuses, packaging ops likely to be sold off

Essentra plans to become a “pure play” components business, meaning its Filters and Packaging divisions are likely to be sold off.

ACA: closure implemented with minimal impact to future trading

ACA subsidiary shuttered

Directors at ACA Group have put part of the business into liquidation due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the ending of the furlough scheme.

The JFX600-2513 was in demand by the packaging and sign markets

Mimaki demonstrating recent launches at RAI

Mimaki Europe is showcasing several machines it has launched during the coronavirus pandemic at Fespa this week.

The VariJet 106 at its world premiere

K&B Durst reveals VariJet 106 pricing model

Two beta customers will take delivery of Koenig & Bauer Durst’s B1 inkjet press early next year, with commercial shipments slated for the second half of 2022.

Fespa’s Global Print Expo 2021 runs until Friday

Fespa 2021 opens its doors

Fespa’s Global Print Expo 2021 has kicked off at the RAI exhibition centre in Amsterdam, welcoming wide-format printers and signmakers back to a live event for the first time since May 2019.

A jumbo paper reel at UPM Caledonian Paper in Scotland

Paper industry warns on energy crisis

UK paper mills could be forced to shut down if the gas price crisis impacting energy-intensive industries isn’t resolved soon, an industry expert has warned.

Fujifilm's plate manufacturing facility at Tilburg

Fujifilm brings in fresh surcharge

Fujifilm has urged customers to switch to its Platesense programme to help mitigate rising input costs, as the manufacturer announces a further surcharge on plate prices effective from next month.

Ascend: "best of both worlds with CMYK plus embellishment"

Kodak targets embellishment opportunity with new Ascend

Kodak CEO Jim Continenza has vowed that the firm will be “the last company standing in plates” as the manufacturer announced a raft of new products including a new electrophotographic digital press...

One of Kuhnel's wide-format printers at its Ossett site. Image: Hilco

Long-standing family firm latest to fall victim to pandemic

A long-standing Yorkshire-based large-format printing business has gone into administration, with its assets subsequently sold to a fellow Yorkshire print company.