Packaging

DS Smith Packaging is proposing to move its Bradford-based retail and display and manufacturing arm, Multigraphics, into its Ely, Cambridgeshire facility.

In the 12 months to 30 April, UK packaging group DS Smith achieved underlying pre-tax profits of 165m (2011: 111m), boosted by its acquisition of SCA Packaging.

Steve Dryden, the former group finance director of packaging business DS Smith, is to become chief financial officer of consumables giant Flint Group on 1 July.

Managed print services provider InnerWorkings has acquired Yorkshire-based Professional Packaging Services (PPS) for an undisclosed sum.

Specialist film supplier Graphic Image Films has expanded its range of Derprosa laminating films on offer in the UK.

When the doors closed and visitor numbers were totted up after the final day of this year's North Print & Pack, it probably came as no surprise to the show's organiser's that footfall over the three...

KBA has posted Q1 pre-tax losses of 18.8m (2012: - 0.4m) citing postponed orders and weak quarterly sales.

CRP Print and Packaging has worked with brewer Miller Brands UK to develop a corrugated retail beer case that expands when opened and holds ice to chill beer bottles.

Colour management developer GMG has unveiled the latest upgrade to its ColorServer software.

The packaging sector has questioned the wisdom of Waitrose plans to halve its packaging by 2016 to save nearly 100 tonnes of packaging annually.

Customers buying ProDesign paper through UK paper merchant Premier Paper can now offset carbon emissions by supporting the planting of native woodland in the UK.

UK digital finishing firm Morgana Systems has expanded its presence at next month's North Print & Pack by confirming that it will take its own stand at the Harrogate event.