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Print promos kick off for Euros
The upcoming UEFA Euro 2020 football tournament has provided a welcome boost to raft of printing companies.

Magna Signs ups capacity with Agfa install
Magna Signs has substantially increased its print capacity after installing a hybrid 3.2m-wide Agfa Anapurna H3200i LED printer.

Heidelberg: 'comprehensive transformation' is paying off
Heidelberg CEO Rainer Hundsdörfer said the business was now “leaner and more efficient”, and is poised to return to profitability in 2022/23 on the back of a raft of growth initiatives including...

Fedrigoni launches new shades
Fedrigoni has launched four new shades as part of its latest swatch book.

Industry associates mourn Tim Blincoe
Industry colleagues and associates are mourning the loss of Fujifilm product manager Tim Blincoe, who has died after a year-long illness.

Compass adds Recovery Loan Scheme to offering
Compass Business Finance has become accredited to offer the new Recovery Loan Scheme from the British Business Bank.

More bumper print tenders go live
A trio of print contracts collectively worth tens of millions, with one alone worth £20m, are up for grabs via the government’s Find a Tender service.

UK Greetings joins Carbon Balanced Paper programme
A major greetings cards manufacturer and publisher will offset close to 10,000 tonnes of CO2e relating to the manufacturing of the board used to produce its cards annually after signing up to the...

Sappi to implement another price increase
Sappi Europe has announced another price increase, this time for all of its containerboard grades.

OUP closure to end centuries-long print tradition
UPDATED: Oxford University Press is planning to break a centuries-long tradition of printing by closing its Oxuniprint operation – a move slammed by union Unite as the “short-sighted and disloyal”...

MacroArt supports growth with key appointment
Wide-format printer MacroArt has supported its growth aspirations with the appointment of a new non-executive chairman.

Identity Printing takes UK's first Resolute DTF printer
Identity Printing has become the first company in the UK to install Resolute DTG’s new direct-to-film (DTF) transfer printing system for garments.

Saica sells three sheet plants, fires up new Rapida
Saica Group has sold its corrugated sheet plants in England to a new company headed up by a packaging industry veteran, and at the same time has fired up the monster new Koenig & Bauer press at its...

Company fined after forklift fatality
A paper recycling company has been handed a six-figure fine after a worker was killed in an incident involving a forklift truck.
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Mondi completes Turkish acquisition
Global paper manufacturer Mondi has completed its acquisition of Turkish corrugated packaging specialist Olmuksan from International Paper.