Packaging

KBA is optimistic about its prospects for the full year, although it has a way to go to hit its €1bn (£708m) annual sales target.

Adverse currency fluctuations hit Q2 sales figures at Kodak, but the firm reported significant growth in sales of key graphics arts products and also reduced its losses.

Essentra’s Kimbolton print site is set to close as well as its Hull site, as all of the group’s print operations look likely to move to Newport, South Wales.

Easyfairs has revealed more details about the Learnshops seminars that will take place at Packaging Innovations and Luxury Packaging London 2015.

Macfarlane Group is targeting one more acquisition this year after buying Nottinghamshire-based One Packaging in a £2.75m deal.

Essentra is reportedly set to move its print operation to South Wales, in a move that will put up to 60 jobs at risk.

Edinburgh-based Thomson Print & Packaging has bought a Heidelberg Suprasetter A 52 CTP device to help streamline its production.

Packaging Innovations London and Luxury Packaging show organisers have so far signed 175 exhibitors as they prepare for an event double the size of the first show in 2010.

Sappi Europe has pledged to develop at least one new speciality packaging substrate a year as it works to reposition itself as a packaging innovator.

Roberts Mart chairman John Roberts has been lauded with the BPIF’s Outstanding Contribution to the UK Printing Industry Award.

Graphic Packaging International (GPI) hosted the grand opening of its new Global Innovation Centre in Bardon, Leicestershire last Friday (10 July).

Firstan Packaging has become the first UK packaging printer to become a pressSign Offset Standard (POS) certified printer.