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Speciality paper and cartonboard supplier Chapelton has drafted in two paper industry stalwarts to its team.

Trade label printer Baker Labels has installed two HP Indigo WS6800 Digital Presses.

The first of Canon Europe’s new range of wide-format printers to incorporate the new Canon UVgel technology will be unveiled at Fespa in May.

Leycol Print, the east London-based commercial printer, has switched plate suppliers and will use Fujifilm’s Superia LH-PJE plates until 2020.

Hollywood Monster has become the first company in the UK to take the new 5m-wide EFI Vutek 5r printer.

Mike Holyoake, the former head of Xerox's UK graphics business, has taken a new role with Xerox reseller Zerographic Systems.

Trade finisher Ace Binding has upgraded its finishing facilities with an approximate £200,000 investment, taking the UK’s first Renz Inline 500 Compact puncher and binder and an MBO B30 folder.

KCS Trade Print is expanding its factory footprint by nearly a fifth to create more working space and allow for growth.

Chancellor Philip Hammond has delivered his first – and last – Spring Budget, and with it a raft of measures that could impact printers, particularly SMEs.

Agfa-Gevaert has posted mixed results for 2016; the group saw a 4.1% drop in revenue but a 1.7% jump in gross profit and a recurring Ebitda margin above 10% of revenue.

Belle Design & Print has invested in a Horizon SPF/FC-200A stitch-fold-trim line to support its move to larger premises.

Communisis has reported revenue and profit growth in its preliminary results for the 2016 calendar year with international business growing to 26% of group sales.

The head of the Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI) has called for the compensation being provided to some paper mills to offset climate change costs embedded in energy bills to be extended to all...

Kodak reported “a meaningful improvement in earnings” for 2016 as it pushed net earnings into the black with a $91m improvement to $16m (£13.1m).

St Ives has effectively hoisted a ‘for sale’ sign over its £220m-plus turnover print operations, with the group’s management pledging to take “decisive action” to restore its fortunes.