New Royal Mail strike dates revealed
Postal workers will hold a series of 48-hour strikes to fall on Black Friday and after Tech Monday, with workers also set to hold a vote of no confidence in Royal Mail CEO Simon Thompson.
Koenig & Bauer pushes ahead with renewable energy
Koenig & Bauer has made progress on its sustainable energy drive with the installation of a huge photovoltaic array at its Würzburg facility.
Some surprising returns to October’s ranking of most read stories
While the ongoing battle between Royal Mail and the CWU dominating October’s listicle wasn’t much of a surprise, the presence of an August news article covering the falling out of Adobe and Pantone...
Kellogg’s partners with HP Indigo and PPG for centenary celebration
Kellogg’s has partnered with HP’s Brands Innovation Platform and Precision Proco Group’s (PPG) Sheffield site team to design and digitally print 2,022 unique packs.
Pantone hikes Connect pricing
Pantone has more than doubled the price of its Pantone Connect plug-in since the summer.
Go Inspire goes greener with gold accreditation and £1m spend
Go Inspire has been awarded gold accreditation from EcoVadis and invested around £1m in a raft of new kit to further enhance its sustainability.
Eren Paper's plans for Shotton gain green light
Local councillors have approved the massive £600m redevelopment of the former Shotton newsprint mill.
Q&A: Giles Foden, managing director, Quantum Print & Packaging
Giles has been in the print and packaging game since 1989. He’s 55, married and has a daughter. His hobbies include tennis (Quantum is a sponsor of the ITF World Tennis Tour W100 tournament in...
60 seconds with Cotswold Letterpress
After a career in print sales Pete Roberts started his own business hand-printing letterpress stationery, and slowly grew to become the town printer ending up with a five-colour litho press and all...
Rising star: Brandon Smith, HP digital printer and ABG finisher, Harkwell
The electrical trade’s loss is print’s gain. Brandon is 20 and has been working at Poole-based Harkwell, which specialises in labels and pouches for a wide range of customers, since the spring of...
Efficiency is key for capitalising on direct mail opportunities
Driving down inefficiencies in direct mail has never been more important if we want to emphasise print’s advantage and rise to meet market challenges and opportunities.
Solopress expands into B1 as part of mega-spend
Solopress has completed a near-£5m investment round with a strategic step up into B1 litho production to increase capacity, with the firm also on track for a record year.