Environment

Polestar Sheffield has become the first UK printing plant to be awarded the Nordic Ecolabel environmental accreditation.

Family business Banbury Litho is to take delivery of a Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 75-5+L this November to minimise start-up waste and increase its volume of sellable sheets.

A consultation to tackle the problem of late payments to small businesses will launch later this year, following criticism of the Prompt Payment Code.

Self-adhesive label industry association Finat has warned label printers that they could be struck off supplier rosters if they fail to comply with the latest EU food safety regulations.

Kodak has this week launched a newspaper version of the Sonora thermal, process-free commercial printing plate that it unveiled at last year's Drupa.

Duncan Print Group is expanding into food packaging after a recent kit investment and accreditation.

Casepak chairman and founder "Bingo" George Smith has died, aged 77.

UPM has been named industry leader in environmental sustainability in the Paper and Forest Products sector in the Dow Jones European and World Sustainability Indices (DJSI).

That nothing even closely resembling the new EU Timber Regulations (EUTR) existed before they were launched in March, is kind of surprising. Most would probably have assumed that introducing illegally...

Daventry-based JR Press has installed a new Heidelberg Polar 78 ECO guillotine as part of a wider move away from commercial print into B3 packaging.