The company opened its doors at the Trafford site on 16 August. Image: Max Fame

Luxury packaging manufacturer opens UK base in Trafford

International luxury packaging manufacturer Max Fame Group has opened its first UK base in Trafford, Greater Manchester.

Shapps: new business cards required, again

Printer is new Defence Secretary

Grant Shapps has been appointed to his fifth cabinet position within the space of a year, with the former print boss now bringing his unique blend of skills to the role of Defence Secretary.

McMurray: leading the improvement program being delivered by the new SLT

Mardan Products creditors owed more than £1.5m

Companies within the PFI Group were owed nearly £240,000 by shuttered Mardan Products, according to documents just filed, with creditors owed more than £1.5m in total.

Taylforth is busy overseeing the development of FaberExposize UK's new PrintIQ MIS

FaberExposize UK promotes Claire Taylforth to ops director

Leeds-based FaberExposize UK has appointed Claire Taylforth as its new operations director, on the ninth anniversary of her joining the wide-format printer.

Best of British: Industrial inkjet’s wizards

Here’s another pioneering British developer that grew up in the inkjet hothouse around Cambridge.

Star product: eProductivity Software Midmarket Print Suite

A suite of applications “decades in the making” aimed at optimising production processes.

Godson: "The quality we have seen coming off the press is very high and fits in with Baker’s reputation"

Me & my: Digicon 3000

Late last year, Brentwood-based trade label printer Baker Labels spotted a gap in the market.

Packs open up pots of opportunity

Fans of BBC Two show Inside the Factory will know that the production stats for some of the products featured are pretty mind-blowing, be it 360,000 tins of rice pudding made per day, or 130m malt...

Printweek editor Darryl Danielli

Putting people first could remedy print’s age-old issue with old age

For more years than I care to remember we’ve talked about the print industry’s ageing workforce as a ‘ticking time bomb’ that will be our undoing.

KCS MD Deadman: B Corp certification required determination

KCS Print in labels B Corp first

Launceston-based KCS Print has laid claim to becoming the first British label printer to be B Corp certified.

BPIF Training received a ‘Good’ rating

BPIF Training receives positive Ofsted report

BPIF Training has celebrated the successful outcome of its recent Ofsted inspection.

Family-owned firm was established more than 45 years ago

BCQ sale details revealed

A probe by HSBC Invoice Finance precipitated events at BCQ Group that resulted in its pre-pack sale to Pollards in a £3m deal.