The conciliator for Finnish Paperworkers’ Union Paperiliitto and UPM Pulp has submitted a proposal for a settlement in the collective labour agreement negotiations between the two parties.

When Heidelberg CEO Rainer Hundsdörfer took over as boss of the industry’s largest press manufacturer five years ago, the world was a very different place.

Esko and CERM have collaborated on what is claimed to be a world-first integration that has enabled a Belgian printer to automate its workflows to produce complex labels.

The Independent Print Industry Association (IPIA) has expanded its IPIA Council to 17 members with the addition of a further three industry professionals.

Avery Dennison has acquired Yorkshire company Catchpoint's IP for the dispensing of linerless labels.

Morgana has added a conventional B3 die-cutter to its range of post-press kit with a new sub-£40k Uchida device that it said opens up the added value process to a wider range of users.

The four-day working week pilot programme has been inundated with expressions of interest and the names of some of the companies that will participate in the six-month trial have now been revealed.

Linney has launched an initiative to plant 25,000 trees in its home county while other industry firms also do their bit to support local and national tree planting schemes.

ProPrint Group has expanded its linerless labels division after taking on a Ravenwood Packaging Com500 Coater, with an Edale FL3 flexo press set to follow.

Finishline Print Finishers has boosted its productivity after taking on a B&R Moll Compact folder-gluer for small-format folding.

Print industry representatives have hailed a meeting with the Home Office last week as a “breakthrough” in their quest to amend planned changes to the Misuse of Drugs Act that would effectively ban...

A raft of new paper price increases are set to be rolled out in the next few weeks by papermakers who are continuing to battle rising costs of their own.