Packaging

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.

Flexible packaging manufacturers Gelpack Excelsior and Gelpack Industrial have fallen into administration, resulting in 175 redundancies.

Leatherhead-headquartered HH Global has posted continued growth in its financial results for the three months ended June 2017.

Reflex Group has acquired in-mould label (IML) specialist West Yorkshire Printing Company (WyPrint), in a bid to create a "strong, British contender".

The order book for Heidelberg’s Primefire 106 is full for the next two years, as the first beta machine goes into production.

Tams Packaging co-founder Steve Tammadge is donating his salary to charity in memory of his eldest daughter, who died of breast cancer in 2015.

Pureprint has expanded its packaging operation by relocating it to a new larger site in Hertfordshire.

Domino has chosen to incorporate Xaar's 502 GS15 O printhead into the new 70mm C6000+ variant of its C-Series Plus piezo drop-on-demand outer case coders.

Essentra has blamed recent poor financial performance on “internal, not external factors”, after announcing details of a strategic review yesterday alongside its H1 2017 results.

Around 150 jobs are set to go with the proposed closure of an Essentra site that only opened last year.

Large-format POS printer Showcard Print has invested in new kit for its fulfilment and logistics department, in a £200,000 spend.

US-headquartered global label giant Multi-Color Corporation has acquired Constantia Flexibles’ Label division in a €1.15bn (£1bn) deal that gives it a UK footprint nudging £100m.