Fire

Smurfit Kappa UK is suing a small Birmingham catering firm, and Birmingham City Council (BCC), over the 2022 fire that saw 8,000 tonnes of compressed cardboard go up in flames.

Two Leicester printers’ production sites burned to the ground over the weekend, with demolition of remaining structural elements scheduled for later today (4 December).

Three print firms were evacuated on Wednesday afternoon due to the Ocado warehouse fire in Andover.

An East Sussex-based commercial printer that experienced a fire late last year is back in full production after replacing fire damaged kit with a raft of new machinery.

A blaze at Basildon-based e-commerce fulfilment firm P2P Mailing’s warehouse has burned it to the ground, despite more than 100 firefighters tackling the fire at its height.

Print and marketing communications company Taylor Bloxham Group has invested just over £1m in two new Muller Martini finishing machines to replace kit that was damaged following an electrical fire.

Service Press Leicester, which was burned to the ground 18 months ago, has turned disaster into an opportunity to realign its business.

A piece of machinery caught fire at Wyndeham Bicester last night (9 January), according to local news reports.

One fire engine and its crew with a watching brief is still present at the premises of a King's Lynn paper factory after a fire broke out that, at its height, was being tackled by 80 firefighters.

A fire has broken out at the abandoned Polestar Petty building in Leeds.

Holmen Paper has restarted its PM 11 production line at its Hallsta Paper Mill in Hallstavik, Sweden.

Holmen Paper has postponed restarting the PM 11 production line at its Hallsta Paper Mill in Hallstavik, Sweden until mid-March.