Packaging

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.

Print and packaging businesses picked up a clutch of Queen’s Awards for Enterprise this week.

Print boss John Provan is living the dream after his horse Pineau De Re romped home in Saturday’s Grand National to claim a £561,300 prize.

The government is set to introduce regulations that will pave the way for a ban on branded tobacco packaging in the UK.

Heidelberg is planning a fresh assault on the crowded digital label press space with the promise of “no more compromise” for label printers.

Copytrax has launched a new flatbed solvent printer, the PrintMaster Rubens.

Denny Brothers visited Ipex on Tuesday to sign for a Xeikon 3500 digital label press with Xeikon’s low-temperature ICE toner technology.

New industrial print show Inprint, making its debut on the events calendar next month, has already signed 120 exhibitors and visitor numbers are on track to exceed expectations.

CMC Machinery (S4 G370) has given its new Cartonwrap machine its show debut at Ipex.

Mike Ridgway, who has headed the packaging industry’s fight against a move to plain tobacco packaging, has launched the Consumer Packaging Manufacturer’s Alliance (CPMA).