Environment

Kodak predicts processless plate 'shift'

Kodak believes the adoption of processless plates is reaching a tipping point akin to that experienced with the adoption of CTP – and is citing potential savings for users running into tens of...

PEFC launches new Responsible Business Platform

PEFC has launched a new online verification platform, to go live hopefully by the end of this week.

Strengthening the FSC chain could lose it valuable links

FSC – not, most would agree, the most popular acronym in print. The majority of printers of course wholeheartedly support the organisation’s ethos and are more than happy that the majority of papers...

Potts secures major theatre contract

Potts Print (UK) has won a three-year contract, which will be worth in excess of £300,000, for all the print and mailing for a prestigious theatre company.

B&B Press orders UK's first LED UV presses

Rotherham-based B&B Press has become the first UK printer to order LED-UV offset presses, investing over £1m in a Sakurai Oliver 480SD LED UV four-colour and 580SD LED UV five-colour press.

Denny Bros cuts energy bill with solar investment

Denny Bros expects to cut its total annual power consumption by at least 6% after installing 200 50KW solar photovoltaic panels on the roof of its Bury St Edmunds production facility.

Does progress mean it’s time to allow APP in from the cold?

Just over a year on from Asia Pulp & Paper’s (APP) announcement of the implementation of its forest conservation policy (FCP), which centres on a moratorium on all natural forest clearance activities...

Budget 2014: Osborne unveils raft of business support measures

George Osborne billed his fifth budget yesterday as one for "the makers, the doers and the savers" as he unveiled a raft of new measures designed to support British businesses.

Chancellor urged to boost business support in the Budget 2014

Business groups including the BPIF, Institute of Directors (IoD) and Forum of Private Business (FPB) have called on the chancellor of the exchequer to step up support for businesses in his penultimate...

Polestar fined for worker injury

Polestar has received a £10,000 fine for health and safety failings after a member of staff was injured using a machine at one of its factories.