News

Litho Supplies has teamed up with digital asset management specialist Pine Tree Systems to bring a new web submission and workflow tool to the marketplace.

Irish newspaper printworks Smurfit News Press has been fined 695,000 (Euro1m) by a court after two accidents in which a worker lost a leg and another lost skin from his hand.

Sappi and Stora Enso have both announced joint-venture projects in China for the production of coated paper and publication papers respectively.

UK book publisher MQ Publications is to phase out the use of pulp from ancient forest and plans to adapt its book production to Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified stock.

Muller Martini is targeting the flexible packaging and direct mail markets with a narrow web press demonstrated at an open house last week in Germany.

Delta Print & Packaging has been fined 6,000 by the Department of the Environment (DoE) for failing to comply on waste laws.

Heidelberg is to launch a new perfect binder, its fastest, the sub-500,000 Eurobind 4000.

Pottsprinters has ordered a second Heidelberg Speedmaster CD 74-6L only six months after installing its first. The company also plans to buy a third.

HH Associates has bought Danish print broker firm Novavision to push the UK company into the Scandinavian market.

Former Litho Supplies joint managing director Gerry Mulvaney is now officially unemployed following the expiration of his contract with the company.

St Ives book printing division Clays is one month into a three-month trial of Creos Mirus thermal plate.

The European Commission has approved the 473m (E680m) acquisition of BASF Printing Systems by private equity firm CVC Capital Partners.

Repro company Gilchrist is working with the Thresher Group on its new range of almost ready gourmet meals.

The Times has axed its broadsheet edition entirely, marking a historic end to 216 years of broadsheet publishing at the iconic daily paper.

GPMU members at Birmingham-based Euro Packaging (EP) are once again on the brink of industrial action.