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Winston’s Wish supports young people enduring times of bereavement
New guidelines to be created

Young people consulted on greetings card bereavement messages

Moonpig recently hosted industry professionals and Youth Ambassadors from young people's bereavement charity Winston’s Wish at a special workshop that aimed to address the 'forgotten mourners' of the...

31 digital printing machines and extensive quantities of raw materials were found. Image: Europol
€8m worth of fake notes sold

Euro forger arrested

A counterfeiter who printed and sold €8m (£6.82m) worth of fake banknotes across Europe, with another €3m worth ready to go at his Naples-based printing premises has been arrested.

Klewchuck (2nd R): It's exciting to see all the R&D at Fujifilm
Acuity Prime and two Revorias installed

Ballyprint picks Fujifilm for upgrade round

Northern Irish printer Ballyprint has chosen Fujifilm for its latest investment round, installing an Acuity flatbed and Revoria toner press, with sister company Impro due to receive another Revoria in...

The service is currently available to larger printers with more than 24 tonnes of printing plates to sell
Supports plate recycling from offset printers

Scrap metal start-up launches online portal

Award-winning scrap metal start-up Metaloop has launched Metaloop Portal, a hub that helps printers manage their scrap metal and sell it for as high a price as possible.

Comedian Ellie Taylor will host the awards evening
2024 awards scheme

SMP awards entry deadline looms

The SMP Strategic Mail Performance Awards are set to return next month, with the deadline for entries set for later this week.

Mima Rose shop now open

Neal junior opens pop-up shop following successful first year

Jemima Neal, eldest daughter of Sam Neal, CEO of Geoff Neal Group, has today (19 August) launched a pop-up shop in London for her apparel business Mima Rose following a successful first year of...

Business and sustainability benefits

Micropress installs latest solar tech

Micropress has invested £500,000 in a new solar panel installation that harnesses the latest technology to generate power from the north side of its building.

The event will run at Stockley Park on 25 September
Digital focused day on 25 September

Heidelberg UK to hold digital event at Customer Experience Centre

Heidelberg UK is holding a digital focused day at its Customer Experience Centre at Stockley Park next month.

Launching this month

Printed Easy reveals details of hardbound book service

Web-to-print specialist Printed Easy will launch its on-demand casebound book service on 27 August.

The Foliant Taurus 530 NG operates at up to 40m/min
Doubled lamination capacity

Mayfield Press boosts bottom line with laminator install

Mayfield Press has improved margins by bringing much of its lamination work back in-house, after installing a Foliant Taurus 530 NG laminator from Intelligent Finishing Systems (IFS).

Framework is UK-wide and available to all public sector organisations
£22m contract

APS awarded new CCS Print Marketplace contract

APS Group has retained the contract for the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) Framework, Print Marketplace, meaning it will remain the sole supplier until at least December 2028.

Faster turnarounds and no import duty

H&M's Creator Studio adds UK production hub

T Shirt & Sons has become Creator Studio’s first UK production hub.

Fees will be calculated per tonne of material produced
'Illustrative base fees'

Government releases estimated fees for Extended Producer Responsibility

The government has released its ‘illustrative base fees’ for Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for the first time, with aluminium, fibre-based composite and plastic packaging topping the list for...

Pincroft supplies materials to over 80 countries - and counts the Dutch armed forces among its customers
Annual capacity will increase to eight million metres

Camouflage printer’s ambition plain to see in £1m+ press investment

Specialist fabric printer Pincroft has invested over £1m in a new rotary screen press, increasing the firm’s camouflage print capacity to more than eight million metres annually.

Should have registered in 2004

Brewer pays out £400k-plus over packaging waste failure

Historic Czech brewer Budweiser Budvar has paid £414,000 to charity after failing to register as a producer of packaging for an astonishing 18 years.