Europe

Neckar Paper, the German mill formerly a subsidiary of Steinbeis Temming and also known as Papierfabrik am Neckar, has been placed into an owner-controlled administration putting its 190 staff at...

EskoArtwork has announced a "significant systems integration contract" that will see its ArtiosCAD design software married to SAP's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application.

Arctic Paper has reported a sales increase of uncoated paper but warned of "extremely tough" new competition from Asia, the US and Canada.

Private equity house HHBV's bid for RSDB has been delayed with the Dutch investment house announcing that the "finalisation of the funding of the offer [is taking] longer than initially expected".

New start-up Digital Book Print is targeting the short-run book sector after investing in the UK's first MGi Meteor DP60 colour digital printer.

Sun Chemical has announced that it will increase its ink prices by up to 20%, striking another blow to printers who are already struggling to cope with price rises in energy and paper costs and coming...

UPM has announced it is to close down its Leivonmki sawmill in Finland and continue the temporary shutdown of a production line at a fine paper mill in Germany.

Document software company Sefas Innovation has added to its UK team with the appointment of Nick Dempsey as business development manager.

Struggling print giant Quebecor World has unveiled massive losses on the sale of its European division.

RSDB has posted a net loss of 1.4m euro (1.1m) for the first half of 2008.

The operating companies of merchant giant PaperlinX have announced paper price increases of between six and 11% in the face of rising raw material and energy costs.

Sappi Fine Paper Europe has announced it is has entered into consultation to close its Blackburn mill putting the jobs of 119 staff at risk.