The Paperworkers’ Union’s strike at the UPM Pulp, UPM Biofuels, UPM Communication Papers, UPM Specialty Papers, and UPM Raflatac units in Finland started on 1 January... London-based, award-winning Boss Print became another victim of the pandemic and closed its doors with the firm’s 11-staff sent home following an unsustainable drop in work... Delta Group acquired Odessa UK out of its CVA, safeguarding circa 40 jobs and bolstering the flexibility of the group’s outdoor offering as it looked to double the division’s £10m sales... Three more industry suppliers announced further price increases: Sappi Europe was poised to raise prices by 10%-25%; Mitsubishi HiTec Paper announced a global price increase of 10%; while Actega raised prices for its water-based coatings... Equipment and other assets belonging to London-based print company TG Print & Design were auctioned after it appointed liquidators from Begbies Traynor... Brussels-based umbrella organisation for national printing industry associations Intergraf reported that rising paper prices and lack of availability was stymying the print industry’s pandemic bounce back and was likely to cause permanent damage... Rob Moules left YM Group after nearly eight years at the business. Moules joined YM as group sales manager in spring 2014, and was promoted to group sales director designate just over five years ago... Joseph Douglas Esqulant, the co-owner of RRS London Waste Papers in Erith, was disqualified from being a director for four years after a fatal accident at the wastepaper merchant... Opus Trust Communications announced it was to exit its Nottingham site by the end of 2022, after Leicester-headquartered Opus Trust acquired Adare SEC and its Nottingham, Huddersfield and Redditch sites in November... UK businesses were invited to participate in a four-day working week pilot programme launched by 4 Day Week Global...