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2016 PrintWeek Power 100 now available online
Our ranking of the industry’s most influential individuals, the PrintWeek 2016 Power 100, is now available to download online.
GF Smith unveils London Show Space
GF Smith has opened a new creative space in the heart of London’s West End, intended to inspire users of print and paper while “celebrating the power and beauty of paper in a digital age”.
Johnston Press sells 13 titles for £17m
Johnston Press has announced the sale of 13 East Anglia and East Midlands titles to Cambridge-based Iliffe Media for a cash sum of £17m.
PCS to debut personalised video gift card at PrintWeekLive!
UK card manufacturer Plastic Card Services (PCS) will demonstrate its new personalised video gift card in public for the first time at PrintWeekLive!
Hungarian buy for EDS
A former Polestar executive has had a hand in the latest continental consolidation play in web offset.
Personalised gifting boost for print
Printers are benefiting from the boom in demand for personalised gifting, with Christmas 2016 likely to reach a new high for this part of the market.
De La Rue: 'minute traces' of animal products in polymer
The tallow backlash that has engulfed the Bank of England has also caused De La Rue to revisit its polymer formulation, PrintWeek can reveal.
Banknote row illustrates vegan challenge
The row over the use of tiny amounts of tallow in polymer banknotes illustrates the challenges in achieving 100% vegan products.
Tallow row causes Bank backtrack
An outcry over the use of miniscule amounts of animal by-products in the production of the new fiver has caused the Bank of England to look at changing the formulation of the banknote substrate.
Ovendens becomes Teknocard distributor
Independent paper merchant Ovendens has become the sole UK stockist for two products in the Teknocard solid bleached sulphate (SBS) board range, after partnering with Arjowiggins Graphic.