News

The Adare Group is to close its commercial print and direct mail operation Pillings with the loss of 75-80 jobs.

McDonalds is to roll-out enhanced product packaging, which could benefit its current print and packaging suppliers.

Amicus GPM Sector members have voted more than two-to-one in favour of the Amicus/BPIF Partnership at Work initiative.

Manchester-based large-format digital printer Cestrian has printed the UKs largest single-piece outdoor poster.

Presstek has attributed the fall in its third quarter earnings to the steps taken to transition the business.

Blackburns has installed two Kodak Versamark digital printing systems as part of its bid to strengthen its position in personalised direct marketing.

Communisis is at a very early stage in talks over a possible sale of all or part of the firm, it announced this morning.

Fujifilm has revealed a new entry-level product in its B2 violet platesetter range, the Luxel V-6e.

Stora Enso plans to cut capacity by up to 2m tonnes across its European operations.

The Amazon rainforest is being destroyed at a rate of up to 30,000sqkm per year, twice as quickly as previously thought, according to new research.

Norske Skog has extended its support for newspaper readership scheme Newspapers in Education (NiE) with a 2m (NOK22.5m) pledge.

An Austrian newspaper publisher has revealed plans for an innovative daily news magazine that will combine heatset and coldset production in the same title.

The 1bn Forscot pulp and paper project is set to create more than 6,000 jobs and an estimated annual income of 106m, according to an economic impact assessment.

Robert Horne has launched a new pan-European campaign to promote its Hello wood-free, coated-paper brand, designed to encourage feedback from printers.

Mailroom profitability was in the spotlight at last weeks IfraExpo as major suppliers pushed ways to make money out of newspaper finishing.