Business

Industry leaders have commented on the impact the coronavirus pandemic has had on their businesses, two years since Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the first lockdown.

Visual Print and Design has been admitted into membership of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Chain of Custody Group Scheme.

ID card specialist Cards-x, which has bases in the UK and Germany, has acquired a German business that specialises in access control systems for large-scale events.

Lincoln-based large-format print group Your Print Partner (YPP) was placed into administration on 3 March and sold through a pre-pack arrangement on the same date.

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.

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.

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.

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.