Showing posts with label Printweek. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Printweek. Show all posts
Monday, 8 July 2024

Have bike (& printing press) will travel!

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Nick Hand, designer and letterpress printer at the Department of Small Works in Bristol, is embarking on another of his epic cycle rides... ...
Tuesday, 10 October 2023

Rare £5 for auction

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An exceptionally rare £5 banknote, printed in 1900, is expected to fetch up to £16,000 when auctioned at Noonans’ auction house in Mayfair ...
Tuesday, 25 July 2023

UPM plans to close its Plattling Mill in Germany.

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  More sad news for the paper industry. This move would take out 380,000 tonnes of uncoated publication paper and 215,000 tonnes of coated p...
Monday, 10 July 2023

Lana paper mill to close

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More sad news from the world of paper... In April, Lana Papier, based in Strasbourg entered into an insolvency procedure and now, in the abs...
Friday, 27 January 2023

Another paper mill goes bankrupt...

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 Another sad piece of news for the paper industry... Crown Van Gelder is a paper mill based in Velsen, Holland. They are best known for high...
Monday, 10 October 2022

Print companies insolvencies on the increase...

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This report has appeared in Printweek today: Jo Francis at Printweek reports... "The latest information on company insolvencies in Engl...
Friday, 23 September 2022

Arjowiggins Mills go into adminstration

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-63001007 There is very sad news that the Arjowiggins paper mills in the U...
Tuesday, 6 September 2022

The paper market and energy crisis

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Regular readers will have heard about paper shortages and massively increasing prices, which I have written about on this blog before . Howe...
Friday, 27 May 2022

Unburnable book set to be auctioned

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Today an article appeared in Printweek written by Jo Francis about Penguin Random House, who have  created a one-off ‘unburnable’ edition ...
Friday, 6 May 2022

Mondi announces Russia Exit

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I have written on this blog before about the fact that Mondi was supporting the Russian economy and their war machine by continuing to manu...
Saturday, 30 April 2022

Printweek - Paper Supply Crisis

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I have written before on this blog about the situation in the paper industry, about the shortages and rapid price increases. A few weeks ag...
Thursday, 3 March 2022

Ukraine - Make a difference NOW!

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I'm sure most of us working in the graphic arts industry, whether a designer, printer or paperperson have wondered if there is anything ...
Tuesday, 25 January 2022

Paper shortages and increasing prices...

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Here is some important background information from the print and paper industry... In this interesting article published in Printweek today...
Tuesday, 19 October 2021

Paper price news...

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An article written by Jo Francis, published today in Printweek about the recent increase in paper costs... The fact is that all paper grades...
Monday, 27 September 2021

Paper shortages?

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...not quite, but there are some supply issues in the market! At this time of year, there is usually a seasonal spike in demand, however thi...
Monday, 10 May 2021

Zanders Mill closes

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There is very sad news that Zanders, the German papermaker has closed. Zanders has been known for its high gloss, cast coated Chromolux ran...
Wednesday, 21 April 2021

The worst day in the paper industry, so far...

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I don't wish to be over dramatic, or a gloomy doom monger, but this news today is the worst that I can ever remember in my career... I&#...
Wednesday, 25 September 2019

ArjoWiggins mills saved in UK

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Today it has been announced that the two remaining UK paper mills of the ArjoWiggins group have been bought in a buyout by the management o...
Saturday, 30 March 2019

ArjoWiggins - news update

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Back in January I wrote about the situation at ArjoWiggins, which had placed five of it's manufacturing mills into administration. The...
Monday, 17 July 2017

Delicious new swatch...

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We now have a wonderful new swatch for our Dolcelicious range of papers. We launched this new range at the PrintweekLive! exhibition in M...