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ColourCo upgrades creasing with Morgana buy
Colour Company (ColourCo) has upgraded its creasing and folding capability by installing a Morgana DigiFold Pro XL.
UPM crisis deepens, manufacturer cites force majeure
UPM is citing ‘force majeure’ for its inability to fulfil customer orders due to the strike action crippling its Finnish mills, but unions have rejected this assertion, describing the situation as “a...
Cost pressures and supply shortages hamper industry growth
The UK printing and printed packaging industry continued its recovery in Q4 but threats to future recovery and growth remain prominent, particularly from increased Covid disruption and the spiralling...
Drugs regs hit inkjet inks
Industry bodies have warned that the government’s reclassification of a substance used in some inkjet inks under the Misuse of Drugs regulations could have damaging knock-on effects if printing...
Flint Group CPW division to implement surcharge
Flint Group’s Commercial Publication Web (CPW) division will implement a surcharge for all of its publication products effective for deliveries from 1 March 2022.
Screen's Mark Sherman mourned
Colleagues and industry associates are mourning long-standing Screen area director Mark Sherman, who has died aged 61.
Navigator to increase UWF prices again
The Navigator Company will increase uncoated woodfree (UWF) paper prices in Europe by 8-15% from next month.
NEC Graph-Fix in administration
NEC Graph-Fix has gone into administration, with the firm’s business and certain assets sold to connected company TNJ Holdings.
WTTB adds layflat books alongside Book Super Centre launch
WTTB has unveiled its new Book Super Centre, which will offer a raft of new book production capabilities including layflat books following investment in new kit.
Cestrian produces sustainable film and TV sets
Cestrian has pivoted into the film and TV industry with a recent job that has seen it produce sustainable film sets made from cardboard.
Park expands into B2 digital with new HP Indigo
Park Communications has taken delivery of its first B2 digital press, an HP Indigo.
Sadness as Evoteam is shuttered
Evoteam has ceased trading after a pandemic-induced reduction in work made the business unsustainable.
BPIF joins calls to urge swift end to paper shortage
The BPIF has joined forces with Intergraf and Finat to urge the end of strike action at UPM's Finnish paper mills.
Frogmore updates after fire
Frogmore Paper Mill has confirmed that a “significant amount” of irreplaceable artefacts were lost in last month’s fire – although its historic paper machines survived the worst of the blaze.
Balcony Shirts turns spoof design into charity gain
Balcony Shirts has raised more than £800 for homeless charity Shelter after producing a one-off t-shirt inspired by the Downing Street lockdown parties scandal.