Packaging

Macfarlane Group has announced the conditional acquisition of the entire issued share capital of Leicester-based Nelsons for Cartons for £6.75m.

Kodak and Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba are behind a new start-up that aims to fight the e-commerce fake product market using invisible, digitally traceable ink markers.

Corrugated converter Caps Cases has splashed out on a new HP Scitex 11000, its first digital press.

Curtis Print & Packaging has launched a circa £1m investment programme, which includes a move to a new site, by signing for a Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 75.

Encore Packaging Solutions has appointed Martin Burrows as its new business development manager, as the sister company of Encore Envelopes looks to continue its expansion.

Leicester-based rigid box specialist Pollard Boxes has bought local rival Clarke Rubicon.

DS Smith has acquired POS specialist Creo from investment management company Writtle, its seventh acquisition since May 2015.

Label and leaflet specialist Denny Bros has eased a production bottleneck with a new Wohlenberg 115 high-speed cutter.

Integrity Print is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the company, and has made a £1.5m investment across its operations as it adapts for the future.

Three UK printers were among those which chose KBA this Drupa, helping to propel the German manufacturer to a €100m sales boom.

Glossop Cartons has signed at Drupa for an RMGT 10-series B1 press, in a six-colour-plus-coater configuration.

Glossop Cartons signed up for a new carton-specific MIS system from Imprint-MIS at Drupa.