News

Eight firms will show products based on PPML, the variable data file format, at Print 01 in Chicago this September

M-real has started negotiations with German customers to increase the price of its woodfree coated paper.

Scitex Vision Europe has appointed Torbjorn Levin as vice president of marketing and business development.

Smurfit UK has been fined 100,000 over the death of a paper maker at its Burnley paper and board mill last year.

Paul Venediger and Chris Palmer, formerly of e-commerce marketplace PaperX, have set up Publishing Paper Solutions (PPS) a new company providing paper management services.

English Nature is calling for tighter regulations on landspreading the spreading of paper pulp waste after claiming best practices are not being carried out.

Textflow, the Belfast-based digital print and e-solutions company, has been bought from owner W&G Baird Group by managing director Nigel Ewing.

The price of Northern Bleached Softwood Kraft (NBSK) is set to fall even further, below the current FOEX price of $499 per tonne, as the downturn in pulp sales continues.

Turners Creative in Dunstable has installed a fully specified six-colour Indigo TurboStream digital offset colour press.

Xerox has decided not to pay its quarterly dividend for the first time in its 53-year history, in line with its plan to return to profitability by the end of the year.

Astron Group triumphed at the Human Resources magazine awards, taking the top prize in the Overall Company of the Year and Excellence in Change Management categories.

Markzware has begun shipping its pre-flighting software package, FlightCheck v4.0, for the Macintosh.

ScenicSoft has launched new versions of its trapping software, TrapWise, and its packaging imposition package, Pandora.

The printing industry has no great hopes of relief from severe price competition, according to the BPIFs latest Directions survey.

Kall Kwik has reported its best-ever results in 22 years of business.