Print buying

Elvis & Kresse - which produces the Print Room Wallet - won the sustainable development award

Print and packaging names among Queen’s Awards winners

Several print related businesses and packaging companies have been honoured in this year’s Queen’s Awards for Enterprise.

Communication Papers: biggest unit lost money last year

Fresh proposals submitted over UPM strike

There’s a glimmer of hope that agreement could be reached in the long-running strike action that has shuttered UPM’s Finnish paper mills.

Consumers are prepared to pay more

FSC: consumers increasingly aware of sustainable packaging

UK consumers have become significantly more aware of the environmental impact of the products they buy, according to research from environmental charity the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).

Olympus Print Group operates from a 5,000sqm production site. Image: Google Maps

Olympus Print Group acquired by German group

Olympus Print Group has been acquired by Hamburg-headquartered All4Labels Global Packaging Group.

Soaring gas prices have seen firms' electricity bills jump by three to four times

Industry reacts to energy crisis

Soaring energy prices have seen yet another increase in overhead costs for printers, but for those whose contracts are coming to an end, the leap in prices has been enormous.

Customers are questioning how their relationship with UPM can ever be repaired

UPM strike: despair as union rejects proposals

Printers and print buyers are in despair after the Finnish Paperworkers' Union rejected the four UPM strike settlement proposals on the table –  apparently due to the impasse at Communication Papers...

Weekend: new issue will be printed in a larger font size

Daily Mail revamps Weekend

DMG Media will ‘relaunch’ the Daily Mail’s Weekend magazine this Saturday.

Communication Papers: biggest unit lost money last year

Shop stewards demand action at UPM Communication Papers

Chief shop stewards at UPM businesses have written an open letter to the firm’s CEO demanding that negotiations to resolve long-running strike action should be resumed immediately at its Communication...

Filthy 48pp Lithoman III: could it scrub up nicely?

YM web and bindery kit up for sale

Printing and post-press kit from YM’s Pindar and York Mailing sites is being offered for sale by private treaty.

The London edition has an average print run of 310,000 magazines fortnightly. Image: Time Out Group

Time Out to stop printing London edition

Media and hospitality business Time Out is set to cease printing the London edition of its free magazine at the end of June.