Wednesday, 2 July 2025
Euro25 starts today!
Wednesday, 11 June 2025
Independent Paper Show - today!
The Independent Paper Show
Wed/June 11th: 2pm – 6pm + Networking drinks (6pm – 8pm)
Thurs/ June 12th: 12pm – 5pm
Register your place here:
At CRYPT ON THE GREEN,
CLERKENWELL, LONDON, EC1R OEA
Posted by Justin Hobson 11.06.2025
Saturday, 7 June 2025
Another paper mill hits the buffers...
Sadly, yet another mill has gone into insolvency and closed. They are hoping to restructure, although if they manage it, this will be the third time.
Based in Uetersen outside Hamburg, the mill specialises in making coated label papers for pacakging.
You can read the full article on Printweek here...
https://www.printweek.com/content/news/feldmuehle-insolvent-hopes-to-restructure-again/
Posted by Justin Hobson 07.05.2025
Thursday, 5 June 2025
World Environment Day 2025

Monday, 2 June 2025
Teaser...
This time next month something is happening and this is a clue...
Thursday, 29 May 2025
Independent Paper Show 2025
Fenner Paper is cordially inviting you to the second Independent Paper Show to be held in London and if you have received one of these amazing invitations, you'll appreciate just how special they are!
The Independent Paper Show is coming to London again. The second London edition of the IPS will be presented in the Crypt on the Green and all are welcome (whether you received this amazing invitation or not!)
The invitation is contained in this beautifully finished box, which is 245 x 190 x 17mm.The event is on Wednesday, June 12th 1pm until 8pm and Thursday, June 13th 10am until 5pm at the Crypt on the Green St. James’s Church, Clerkenwell London EC1R 0EA .
You can read more about it on their website.. To attend, you just need to register on the event website: https://papershow.co.uk/
We hope to see you there - where you will be able to see a copy of this amazing invitation.
Posted by Justin Hobson 29.05.2025
Wednesday, 28 May 2025
Another paper mill closes...
Read the full story here: https://www.printweek.com/content/news/end-of-the-line-for-kabel-mill
Posted by Justin Hobson 28.05.2025
Monday, 28 April 2025
Save the date!
The Independent Paper Show is coming to town! Yes, this June in Clerkenwell, the second London edition of the IPS will be presented in the Crypt on the Green and all are welcome.
These superb 'Save the Date' cards have been sent out in the post and you may have received one already!
Tuesday, 1 April 2025
10 years on...
Many of you reading this blog may never have even heard of the companies in this article - Robert Horne, Howard Smith Paper, PaperCo, which were all laterly under the Paperlinx banner.
It was exactly ten years ago today that the Paperlinx group companies were placed in administration and I wrote about it on this blog HERE
It was a sad day for our industry and for the near one thousand staff working in the UK for the group. Although this may have been a chronically mismanaged company, it highlighted the direction of travel for the paper and printing industry...
Paperlinx was an Australian company which bought up three very sucessful and profitable companies and ran the whole thing into the ground.
You can read more about the history on the Printweek website:
http://www.printweek.com/print-week/news/1150685/breaking-deloitte-appointed-at-paperlinx-uk-most-branches-closed
Regular readers of this blog may well remember that I had a bit of a 'run in' with Paperlinx and their solicitors after posting a hyperlink (with allegedly defamatory remarks) when I wrote about Toby Marchant's 'golden goodbye' departure:
http://justinsamazingworldatfennerpaper.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/toby-marchant-exits-paperlinx.html
Sadly, Graham Critchley, who ran the website exposing the shananagins at Paperlinx (and who's blog I linked to) passed away in January 2014. The financial troubles at Paperlinx continued to persist.
More history here:
http://www.printweek.com/print-week/news/1150698/merchants-move-to-plug-paperlinx-gap https://www.printweek.com/content/news/paperlinx-debts-revealed/
https://www.printweek.com/content/news/former-paperlinx-business-subsumed-into-japanese-giant/