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Arle Capital acquires Innovia Group in €498 million deal
UK-based substrate manufacturer Innovia Group, which produces polymer banknotes material and packaging films, has been acquired by private equity group Arle Capital in a €498 million deal.

Design Office replaces brace of Heidelbergs with Hans Gronhi press
Design Office has installed a Hans Gronhi GH525 five-colour B3 press to reduce maintenance costs and downtime.

Communisis in double buy
Communisis has hit the M&A trail again and bolstered its creative services offering with two acquisitions.

Queen's Award winners celebrate success
Print and packaging businesses picked up a clutch of Queen’s Awards for Enterprise this week.

Former DST boss returns to print with Print Logic rescue
Collapsed commercial print and direct mail business Print Logic has been bought out of administration in a deal that signals the return of a leading figure in the direct mail and transactional print...

Massive fire affects Yorkshire packaging firms
A huge fire has destroyed Tradpak’s facility in Armley near Leeds city centre.

Vistaprint to open first UK office in Kings Cross, London
Vistaprint will open its first permanent UK office this summer after reaching agreement on a premises in Kings Cross, London.

Linzbach outlines future for the Big H
"Heidelberg” and “humble” aren’t two words normally seen in the same sentence. But that’s exactly what happened earlier this month when the manufacturer unveiled its latest plans to establish a...

Ipex succeeded, but was it enough?
Well, Ipex is over for another four years. Or is it over for good?

Tinkerers in search of the eureka moment
Print’s best-known eureka moment came more than 550 years ago, when Johannes Gutenberg figured out a way to print books using moveable type and a press based on the sort of screw press used for making...