Omni-channel communications specialist Opus Trust Communications was set to become a £110m-turnover business after acquiring Adare SEC... Konica Minolta reported it had a ¥6bn (£38.6m) order backlog at its Professional Print division because of the hiatus in toner manufacturing... Blake Envelopes completed its acquisition of All Colour Envelopes in a strategic move... It was confirmed that RR Donnelley & Sons was set to be acquired by affiliates of Atlas Holdings and go private... Whistl acquired sampling specialist Relish from Kin + Carta as the business, formerly St Ives, wrapped up its divesture of non-core operations to become a pure-play digital transformation business... Konica Minolta resumed production of toner at its Tatsuno Factory and the business said it was continuing work on rebuilding a stable supply of toner, following the explosion and fire at the facility... Swiss manufacturer Hunkeler’s specialist continuous-feed inkjet trade show was pushed back by a year due to the ongoing effects of coronavirus... HP unveiled a ‘mixed reality’ service powered by the Microsoft HoloLens 2 headset that will enable users of its Industrial Printers to connect with HP engineers... E-commerce and specialist mail services firm The Delivery Group acquired 100% of ETrak Logistics, its prior joint venture with Parcel Monkey, to drive its international growth plans... It was revealed that part of the Office Depot business that was not purchased by Paragon subsidiary OT Group earlier this year was poised to go into liquidation with trade creditors to the company owed around £1m... A high-level team from DMG Media held an emergency meeting at YM Chantry, with the print group battling against another breakdown on a key press... Coveris completed a major two-year transformation project at its Cramlington labels facility... Bertelsmann Printing Group announced the planned closure of another gravure plant, reflecting a decade of structural decline in the European gravure market... Fans of Lego and printing were hopeful a working model of Gutenberg’s famous printing press could be immortalised in plastic bricks after a member of Lego’s creative community’s design was put forward for consideration and garnered considerable support. The proposed model includes three key stages: a letter case table for type elements, the press itself, and a place where prints are dried and put together to make books... Essentra confirmed plans to exit the packaging market, and began a strategic review of its £363m turnover Packaging division... Christopher Pearson, the owner of a fulfilment firm Pick It Pack It Send It Ltd, was banned from acting as a director for seven years after taking out a Bounce Back Loan despite knowing his business was already insolvent... Bauer Media blamed “industry wide issues with print supply” for flagship title TV Choice running late on its on-sale date – a situation that could persist until the end of the year. TV Choice is the biggest circulation paid-for title in the UK. It has an ABC of 1,035,403... The bidding war over the future ownership of RR Donnelley continued. The US-headquartered multi-channel marketing and business services group had agreed a $2.1bn (£1.54bn) deal to be taken over by affiliates of Atlas Holdings, but subsequently received a higher bid from its largest investor, Chatham Asset Management. Both Atlas and Chatham later improved on their offers... Canterbury printer Omicron Repro received positive support from its customers despite an initial period of concern over the name of the latest Covid variant...