Print buying

DS Smith has invested in ten Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) to increase sustainability and efficiency at its Kemsley paper mill in Kent.

Innovative, compostable packaging business Vegware has been acquired by US group Novolex.

Associated Newspapers has given its incumbent print supplier notice that the production of Weekend and You magazines will be moving to another printer.

Clays is making its biggest investment yet in a unique configuration Manroland Goss Web Systems Lithoman IV press capable of producing 50m books a year.

Webmart CEO Simon Biltcliffe was name-checked in James Timpson’s newspaper column at the weekend.

Sappi has returned to profitability in Q3, with its packaging and speciality paper business delivering “record EBITDA” in the period – although margins in Europe remain under pressure.

Bell & Bain has helped a nonagenarian’s dream come true by printing a volume of poetry written during lockdown.

YM Group’s delayed and subsequently filed accounts, an extension to the administration of the Howard Hunt group of companies, and a ‘gangmaster’ scandal involving the alleged exploitation and abuse of...

Integrity Print’s parking division aims to improve the notoriously “difficult relationship” between drivers and car park pillars through an innovative traffic management product that combines print...

The boss of Grafica Veneta has spoken out after the company and its employees were the subject of intimidating messages online, including “threats of injury or death”.