On the last day of the month, YM Group’s plans to be a dominant player in UK web offset collapsed into chaos, with FRP Advisory appointed as the administrator of the group’s three web division businesses... A raft of new paper price increases were rolled out by Burgo, Iggesund, Leipa and SCA as mills continued to battle rising costs, while Lecta and UPM rolled out surcharges and Norske Skog temporarily shut down a mill after spiralling energy costs made its operation uneconomical... The UK print industry joined forces for the first time in almost two-and-a-half years to celebrate the sector’s brightest and best at the Printweek Awards... Stora Enso initiated a sales process for a possible divestment of four of its five remaining paper mills... Eight weeks before it was due to open, Labelexpo Europe was postponed, with the UPM strike a factor... FSC and PEFC barred wood and timber from Russia and Belarus from their certified products, as a host of other industry suppliers went public with their stance against Russia’s war in Ukraine... Lincoln-based large-format print group Your Print Partner was sold through a pre-pack administration to its CEO Stuart Maclaren, for £216,618... Just over a year on from its MBO, Medica Packaging bought Curtis Packaging to expand its footprint in luxury goods and cosmetics... Heidelberg CEO Rainer Hundsdörfer gave Printweek an exclusive ‘exit interview’ as his five-year tenure came to an end...