Environment

Noise in print still hazardous, HSE finds

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is to publish online a series of findings detailing noise exposure levels and their implications across the print industry.

EFI wins latest patent lawsuit

A Spanish appeals court has backed an earlier ruling that claims of patent infringement brought against Cretaprint are meritless.

CWU mulls balloting members on Royal Mail strikes

CWU reps are to decide next week if they should ballot Royal Mail workers on a national strike, in a move that will inevitably raise tensions at ongoing negotiations with the postal operator.

New ISO standard 'will be increasingly important to print buyers'

A new ISO standard has mapped out a common method for calculating the carbon footprint of printed products.

Privatisation plan raises hackles and hopes in equal measure

There's little doubt that Royal Mail bosses welcome the government's long-awaited pledge to privatise the group, but for some in the print industry, it's a poison pen letter, tainted with the threat...

UK employers need to get clued up on pension obligations

Retiring to the Costa Blanca, becoming a golf pro, turning a small back lawn into a veritable Kew Gardens. All visions that have for most people of late, begun to seem rather distant and ambitious...

Royal visit marks opening of James Cropper pioneering recycling plant

Paper group James Cropper has developed technology capable of recycling millions of disposable coffee cups into the highest-quality papers for luxury brands.

Paperlinx opens Shanghai office and mulls China imports

Paperlinx has opened an office in Shanghai, China to serve as its Asia sales office and also offer a route to expand its European portfolio of products manufactured in Asia.

Late payment inquiry presents recommendations

A cross-party parliamentary inquiry into the impact of late payments on SMEs has published 11 recommendations to government on tackling the issue.

Government's Royal Mail float heightens strike threat

Business secretary Vince Cable finally confirmed yesterday that the government is to privatise the Royal Mail, drawing an angry response from the CWU, which once again raised the spectre of industrial...