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Postworks scales up for fivefold Covid growth

Hybrid mail specialist Postworks has successfully moved to a larger production facility during lockdown, as it ramps up capacity to support a fivefold increase in demand due to businesses and...

Home secretary Priti Patel announcing the new measures in Parliament

Quarantine exemptions provide some relief

Specialist technicians such as service engineers, and postal workers involved in the transport of mail, will be exempt from the government’s new quarantine measures – much to the industry’s relief.

Heidelberg's Brentford site: showroom could be even more important, post-Covid

Heidelberg consults on UK restructuring plans

Heidelberg is consulting with its UK workforce about a proposed 20% reduction in headcount along with changes to employees’ terms and conditions.

Xaar's Cambridge HQ

Xaar updates on performance

Inkjet manufacturer Xaar described short-term orders as “healthy” despite the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on some of its markets.

Booth: It was crucial we were able to match litho quality

Booths Print expands digital offering

Booths Print has boosted its digital capabilities to expand its offering and improve flexibility and consistency as volumes start to slowly recover from lockdown.

De La Rue: product authentication tech could help citizens prove Covid-19 status

De La Rue shares soar amid Covid-19 hopes

Shares in De La Rue have rocketed after the group posted an upbeat trading update, along with news that it could use its existing authentication technology to provide a way of certifying people that...

Mask Box: made in Yorkshire

Bluetree pivots with new UK-made surgical mask offering

Bluetree Group has pivoted and invested in specialist equipment to manufacture medical grade IIR face masks – becoming the first company in the UK to make the masks in the process.

Arden Dies and Arden Engraving specialise in die and tooling manufacture

Arden achieves green accreditation

Arden Dies and Arden Engraving, both part of the Arden Group, have become the first die-making and engraving companies in the UK to achieve ISO 14001 accreditation.

Flint Group: sales of €2bn last year

Report: speculation over Flint Group sale

Flint Group could be put up for sale by its US owners, according to a Reuters report.

Stoneywood mill: collaborative effort to come up with safe systems of work

Stoneywood mill makes Covid-secure startup

Arjowiggins Group’s Stoneywood mill is back in production after a phased start-up during the past month.

BoardingPass: "empowers customer facing staff to be able to easily analyse PDF files"

Enfocus readies new easy-to-use PDF checking tool

Enfocus will open up its latest PDF checking tool for free “public beta test” over the summer.

KF 640 is capable of running at speeds of up to 1,500bph

Corinium installs lockdown bookletmaker

Corinium Colour, the digital DM and commercial arm of secure printer Corinium Continuous, has installed KF 640 bookletmaker during lockdown to support a recent digital press investment.

Geldermann: plans also include the personal registration of visitors

Messe Dusseldorf starts mapping out new corona guidance

Drupa director Sabine Geldermann has outlined some of the initial measures being introduced to allow trade fairs to operate during the time of coronavirus, and has also responded to the news that...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak: no more changes or extension to the JRS

Sunak lays out JRS changes

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has laid out the details about how employers will be required to pick up part of the cost of the coronavirus Job Retention Scheme in the coming months, along with new...

More than 400 courses have now been fully funded

DM Trust and DMA triples training furlough fund

The DM Trust Home Learning Fund has pumped in £400,000 of additional funding to triple the number of furloughed staff it can support with free training after it was inundated with applications,...