Consumables

Favini zaps counterfeiters with new range of security products
Favini has launched a range of papers designed to protect products from counterfeiting by adding security elements within the packaging or labeling to ensure the product’s authenticity.

Revamped paper range targets expanding high-speed inkjet market
Crown Van Gelder has re-branded its high-speed inkjet papers as the papermaker gears up for growth in colour inkjet printing.
Sappi to raise SBS board prices
Sappi Fine Paper Europe has announced that it will be raising its SBS board prices next month "in light of continuous and sustained increases in costs of raw materials".

Fespa Digital 2014 targets sell out in Munich
Fespa Digital 2014 is targeting a sell-out event in Munich next year after already surpassing the net exhibitor space at the previous event in Barcelona last year.

Kodak extends Sonora plate into newspaper applications
Kodak has this week launched a newspaper version of the Sonora thermal, process-free commercial printing plate that it unveiled at last year's Drupa.

Aspenlink hit with prohibition notices following accident
Essex-based paper converter and flexographic printer Aspenlink has been ordered to stop work on three of its machines by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).

Avon Graphic Technologies in administration
Litho, digital and wide-format print supplies business Avon Graphic Technologies has been placed in administration.

Fosco, Hayes & Hurdley upgrades HP Scitex FB7600 to run orange ink
The first European orange ink upgrade of an HP Scitex FB7600 has been carried out at Birmingham's Fosco, Hayes & Hurdley.

UN unveils the world's largest e-paper sign
Three companies have teamed up to create what they are calling the world's largest electronic-paper sign.

Paperlinx reverts to regional sales focus
Paperlinx is to disband the Commercial Print division's centralised account management team it created at the start of this year in favour of "putting the power back into the branches".

Man crushed by paper reel airlifted to hospital
A man in his forties suffered life-threatening injuries when he was crushed under a paper reel on an industrial estate in Essex last week.

UPM achieves sustainability accolade
UPM has been named industry leader in environmental sustainability in the Paper and Forest Products sector in the Dow Jones European and World Sustainability Indices (DJSI).