Packaging

CPS Flexible and Mercury Packaging have merged, forming a £15m-turnover company.

Packaging expo Packaging Innovations took place last week at the NEC, Birmingham, and led with the theme of inclusivity and sustainability.

Paper merchant Fenner Paper has been appointed an exclusive UK stockist of James Cropper’s Dolcelicious range of papers and will be showing the range for the first time in the UK at PrintWeekLive!

Multi Packaging Solutions (MPS) has claimed to be the world’s first company to invest in an 18-unit Heidelberg packaging press.

Multi Packaging Solutions (MPS) has been confirmed as the first pilot customer for Heidelberg’s B1 sheetfed inkjet press, the Primefire 106.

Qualvis Print & Packaging has completed a £5m investment programme, initiated at Drupa 2016, with the installation of a dual digital packaging line.

Packaging giant Coveris has invested £3m in its Cambridgeshire-based cartonboard division.

Smithers Pira has valued the European printing market in 2016 at €159.2bn (£138bn) and says a "changing landscape" can be expected over the next five years.

UK-based Labelling and wide-format films supplier Lintec Graphic Films has been acquired by Japanese manufacturer Lintec Corporation.

Craig Mather, the chief executive of Nottingham-based Simply Cartons and Simply Luxe, is upbeat about the prospects for packaging and urges the industry to pull together in 2017.

Inline digital printing technology developer Datalase has been acquired by Japan-based Sato, a barcode technology provider and developer that already had a 33.3% stake in the company prior to...

Clondalkin Flexible Packaging Group has officially transferred ownership to Dutch private equity firm Egeria and restructured its leadership team.