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The Insolvency Service said Bottjer "completely disregarded the law"

Disqualified packaging boss sentenced for breaching ban

A disqualified company director has been sentenced after he performed key management roles in two packaging companies and formed another, despite being banned.

API's Livingston plant makes foils for packaging

API Foils bought out of admin

API Group’s foils division has been bought out of administration by Australian company Aldus.

Roberts: "The transaction is attractive, both financially and strategically"

DS Smith completes plastics division sale

DS Smith has completed the sale of its plastics division to Stamford, Connecticut-based Olympus Partners and its affiliate, flexible packaging specialist Liqui-Box.

Sheetfed paper wrap produced at NTF for Eight Days a Week Print Solutions

NTF rolls out sheetfed paper wrapping

Nottingham Trade Finishers (NTF) aims to capitalise on the growing trend for paper wrapping with a new niche service that allows printers to provide their own pre-printed sheets to be used as the...

Taylor Bloxham: overall group has sales of nearly £30m

Taylor Bloxham creditors count cost of group's collapse

Taylor Bloxham Group was insolvent on a cashflow and balance sheet basis and had just £20,000 in the bank at the time of its administration, with creditors of the business owed more than £7m.

Atkinson: "It’s a continuation of the really strong performance of the business"

Macfarlane notches up 10th consecutive year of growth

Macfarlane Group marked its 10th consecutive year of growth in 2019 after seeing a 4% increase in sales and a 10% rise in pre-tax profit.

131 of the organisations Two Sides engaged with in 2019 have removed or changed their messaging

Busiest year yet for Two Sides’ anti-greenwash campaign

Two Sides’ anti-greenwash campaign experienced its busiest year to date in 2019, with 131 companies removing misleading anti-paper statements.

The proposal will see fewer than 50 employees leaving Antalis, the company said

Antalis to restructure UK business

Paper merchant Antalis has undertaken a strategic review “to create a leaner and more resilient organisation” that will result in a number of redundancies across the UK business.

De La Rue plans to substantially grow its polymer banknote business

De La Rue to slash costs by £35m

De La Rue has quashed fears that it could breach its banking covenants and has announced a new three-year Turnaround Plan that includes an “accelerated cost reduction programme” aimed at saving the...

Printweek contributing editor Jo Francis

If people don't want it, so be it

Jo Francis says it’s not worth worrying about the type of print that’s on its way out. If, indeed, it is.