Packaging

Personalised e-commerce packaging start-up Penny Black has raised a further £1.3m after going independent from Agfa in April 2022.

James Cropper has posted a £200,000 operating loss for the first half of the year, but expects to return to profitability in H2 on the back of strong sales growth – and the business has also spent...

Unite members at UK Smurfit Kappa sites are understood to be balloting over strike action as they reportedly want a 10% annual pay rise.

Phase Print has installed a near-new DigiMoll folder-gluer, allowing the commercial printer to add capacity and a number of new capabilities to its packaging offering.

Nearly 1,000 members of union GMB at DS Smith are balloting for industrial action over a real terms pay cut.

Agfa has signed its first contracts for the Inca Speedset single-pass sheetfed inkjet press, and for Agfa-branded Onset wide-format printers.

Smurfit Kappa Group has released a trading update for the nine months to 30 September 2022, which shows a major jump in revenue for the paper-based and corrugated packaging manufacturer.

Independently owned envelope and packaging manufacturer The Encore Group has purchased a new Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 106 to double its available print capacity.

Heidelberg is targeting packaging printers with its fastest Speedmaster yet, a new 21,000sph version of its XL 106.

Kellogg’s has partnered with HP’s Brands Innovation Platform and Precision Proco Group’s (PPG) Sheffield site team to design and digitally print 2,022 unique packs.