Consumables

Swiss-headquartered investment fund Quantum Capital is to acquire BASF's Netherlands-based offset printing inks business IMEX.

Troubled merchant Paperlinx is to sell its Italian business, Polyedra, to European paper manufacturer Lecta for 45m (37.5m), as part of its restructuring programme.

Tetenal UK has expanded its wide-format product offering with the addition of equipment from Mutoh and Kala as well as a new self-adhesive substrate, Easy Tack.

DuPont will show a "simple and relatively inexpensive" workflow enhancement for its Cyrel DigiFlow flexo CTP system at Drupa that gives the ability to select the ideal dot structure depending on...

Consumables manufacturer Flint Group has warned that an evening out of raw materials in the last quarter of 2011 does not mean prices are on the way back down.

Paper manufacturer Arjowiggins Graphic has joined the WWF's international climate savers program.

Signage printer Viscount Signs and consumables supplier Robert Horne have helped a Southampton-based powerboat racing team break a British speed record.

GI Direct has become the latest company to sign up to the Two Sides campaign to promote the positives of print and paper.

DS Smith Packaging has been fined 50,000 after an investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) into an accident at its Louth facility.

Newspaper printer West Ferry Printers has appointed Palm Recycling as the preferred supplier of recycling solutions to its new Luton print site.

A new cloud-based colour management and standardisation tool aimed at the packaging sector has been launched by Pantone and X-Rite.