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Messe: new measures for operation

Messe gives more details on how future expos will run

Messe Düsseldorf has issued further details about how it plans to run ‘Covid-secure’ expos, including one-way systems in the aisles and limiting the number of visitors.

ImageData Group will roll out the new MIS across its three sites by year end

ImageData Group revamps MIS

ImageData Group has invested around £250,000 in a new Tharstern MIS as it looks to streamline its processes for the post-Covid landscape.

Koenig & Bauer: raft of new products along with new-look press styling

Koenig & Bauer stands firm on Drupa

Koenig & Bauer has publicly backed Drupa 2021, stating that its participation in the expo “is not in question”.

Drupa: Covid-19 pandemic has given some exhibitors cold feet about 2021 expo

Bombshell for Drupa as Heidelberg pulls out

Drupa 2021 has been dealt a major blow after Heidelberg – still the world’s largest press manufacturer – pulled out of all international expos next year including Drupa.

Group managing director David Orr (left) with Tony Clifton, group sales director in front of the Vega Altair

Fencor praises staff as it invests for growth

Fencor Packaging Group has thanked its staff for embracing the “Dunkirk spirit” during lockdown, helping it weather the Covid storm as it rounds off a two-year, £4m spend.

Platten has set three goals for his one-year tenure

Stationers’ names new master

A Stationers’ School old boy has been named the new master of the livery company.

Insolvency Service took action against Bottjer and Hearn

Disqualified packaging duo hit with confiscation orders

Two disqualified directors have been ordered to pay more than £80,000 in a confiscation order, or face imprisonment.

Offermann (pictured) joined from rival Agfa

Screen boosts European service and support

Screen has expanded its European service and support operations following a period of “exponential growth” in high-end inkjet.

Reach: online audience is growing, but ads are not

Reach restructures, 550 jobs to go

Reach’s newspaper printing sites are not included in a wide-scale restructure that has just been announced by the media group

The 1.6m-wide EFI H1625 LED is capable of up to 42sqm/hr

Ur Print rolls out bounce back plan

Ur Print is looking to bounce back out of lockdown and regain the pre-Covid momentum that led it to invest around £100,000 to beef up its wide-format production firepower.

Heidelberg's latest stats show worldwide production trends

Heidelberg and Fuji stats show some signs of pick-up

The latest printing industry performance stats from Heidelberg show some signs of recovery in the UK commercial print market, although it is still lagging behind the rest of Europe.

This year's PoP event will be hosted online

Power of Print goes online

This year’s annual Power of Print seminar is to embrace the power of digital and be hosted online to ensure it’s not impacted by the Coronavirus restrictions.

Vacher: new money will provide the company with financial and operational flexibility

De La Rue completes £100m equity raise

De La Rue has completed its £100m capital raise through the placing of new shares.

The area of Leicester where restrictions still apply. Image: Leicester City Council, Ordnance Survey

'Plan B' advice in case lockdown returns

A Leicester-based promotional products specialist has urged company bosses to have a ‘Plan B’ in case other cities also end up back in lockdown.

Pandemic has resulted in a host of new product categories for print firms

WTTB puts multi-billion price tag on becoming Covid-secure

Research by Where The Trade Buys has put a staggering £3.68bn price tag on the UK-wide costs of being Covid-secure as businesses return to work.