Printing

In this month's clinic: Martyn Elmy on reducing anti-set-off powder use; Simon France on operating leases; and Paul Fisher on checking internet bandwidth.

Paper merchant Antalis has produced a new copy of its environment brochure, the Antalis Environmental Policy, which outlines details of paper's environmental impact and how it can be managed.

Firefighters have been working through the night to stop a blaze at Smurfit Kappa's Snodland mill in Kent.

Spanish corrugated packaging firm SAICA plans to build a 250m state-of-the-art recycled paper mill in Manchester.

Arjowiggins' proposed acquisition of M-real's Zanders Reflex mill in Germany has been cancelled following weeks of speculation.

A strike that would have hit 1,000 staff at Finnish paper manufacturer Stora Enso has been averted just minutes before it was scheduled to start.

Consolidation in the European paper market took yet another step forward as Sequana announced that Arjowiggins' fine and thin paper activities will be "ultimately integrated" within merchant Antalis.

M-real and Stora Enso have used Drupa to announce more paper price increases, with rises of 6-8% planned for magazine grades.

Xennia has created what it bills an "unrivalled" Xaar 1001-based industrial inkjet print platform.

A US paper manufacturer is attempting to get consumers to embrace ethically sourced paper in the same way they would choose food or clothes with regard to their provenance.

Metso Corporation, the supplier of machinery for the pulp and paper industry, has purchased the shares of Swedish research company Lignoboost for an undisclosed sum.

A feasibility study for an integrated pulp and paper mill in the Russian region of Nizhny Novgorod is to be trialled by paper giant Stora Enso.