Business

UK Bookbinders brings case binding in-house as business booms
A Kolbus DA 260 casemaker and an automated ribbon inserter are the latest in a string of machinery investments made by Weston-super-Mare-based UK Bookbinders since the start of the coronavirus...

Sun Chemical to increase prices
Sun Chemical is increasing prices across its entire portfolio of packaging, commercial sheetfed, and screen inks, coatings, consumables, and adhesives in the EMEA region, effective immediately or as...

Canon and Plockmatic collaborate on inline coating for VarioPrint iX
Canon and finishing kit supplier Plockmatic have collaborated on the inline integration of Canon’s VarioPrint iX-series digital inkjet sheetfed press with Plockmatic’s DigiCoater Pro 400 HD LED paper...

Kellmatt upgrades folding with Morgana
Kellmatt has upgraded its folding by investing in a Morgana DigiFold Pro XL.

Opus Trust to exit Nottingham operation
Omnichannel communications specialist Opus Trust Communications is set to exit its Nottingham site by the end of December 2022, with a number of jobs at risk of redundancy.

Intergraf: Spiralling paper prices and shortages damaging print
Rising paper prices and lack of availability is stymying the print industry’s pandemic bounce back and is likely to cause permanent damage according to Intergraf, which has issued a plea for the paper...

Flint Group to implement more price rises
Flint Group’s Offset Packaging Solutions (OPS) and Commercial Publication Web (CPW) divisions are set to announce further price increases.

Royal Mail to cut 700 managers
Royal Mail is expecting to reduce its management headcount by around 700 and has reported bumper recent absences caused by the Omicron Covid wave that has led to delivery delays.

Customer satisfaction is the goal for 2022
Ricoh UK’s Simon Isaacs believes every business is on a journey and has customers that it needs to better understand, if it is to have any hope of providing satisfaction and retaining their trade.

Shuttered London printer’s kit goes up for auction
Equipment and other assets belonging to a London-based print company that is set to go into members’ voluntary liquidation has gone up for auction.