Printweek Daily Bulletin: More paper price increases; Fed hails drug regs rethink; Finishline ups automation; and more...

[View in web browser]( [View text-only version]( [Add to safe senders list]( [PrintWeek]( Thursday 17 March 2022 [Daily news bulletin] [Sponsored by Fujifilm] [Today's top stories] [More paper price increases flagged up]( [More paper price increases flagged up]( A raft of new paper price increases are set to be rolled out in the next few weeks by papermakers who are continuing to battle rising costs of their own. [Trade bodies welcome drug regs rethink]( [Trade bodies welcome drug regs rethink]( Print industry representatives have hailed a meeting with the Home Office last week as a “breakthrough” in their quest to amend planned changes to the Misuse of Drugs Act that would effectively ban certain ingredients crucial to the manufacture of inks and press chemistry. [Finishline Print Finishers ups automation with Moll buy]( [Finishline Print Finishers ups automation with Moll buy]( Finishline Print Finishers has boosted its productivity after taking on a B&R Moll Compact folder-gluer for small-format folding. [ProPrint Group boosts linerless labels capacity]( ProPrint Group has expanded its linerless labels division after taking on a Ravenwood Packaging Com500 Coater, with an Edale FL3 flexo press set to follow. [Best of British: A focus on building business intelligence]( Lancashire’s finest and, as far as we know, only print MIS developer, Tharstern, has been around since the 1980s and continues to adapt and innovate as print changes into ever more automated processes. This year it will launch a second major product line, the all-new Tharstern Cloud for Labels. [Yesterday's most read] [UPM strike extended for fifth time]( [More paper surcharges, mill halts production due to energy crisis]( [Konica Minolta responds to Ukraine crisis]( [Blogs] [Printer's devil: it's in the detail]( Contributing editor Jo Francis muses on the latest goings on in the print industry. [In this issue] [While the Printweek Awards finalists deservedly took centre stage in our February & March ‘Shortlist issue’, the issue was crammed as ever with a smorgasbord of insightful business and technology long reads and snappy news roundups...]( [Forward to a friend](mailto:?subject=Print%20industry%20news%20...&body=I%20thought%20you%20might%20be%20interested%20in%20this%20newsletter%20from%20PrintWeek:%20%20 [Got some news? Email the PrintWeek newsdesk here](mailto:printweek.newsdesk@markallengroup.com) [PrintWeek jobs] [Business Development Manager - Postal Logistics / E Commerce]( [Digital Print Operator]( [POS Senior Account Manager]( [Lithographic Printer]( [Print Finisher]( [More jobs]( [Knowledge Bank] [SDUK makes a brilliant return to show business]( [SDUK makes a brilliant return to show business]( After a near three-year-long hiatus, the expo that bills itself as the UK’s longest running event for the visual communications sector is set to take place in March. [An international affair]( [An international affair]( Margins in print can be slender. Looking at the most recent Printweek Top 500 report, compiled in association with business advisory and accountancy firm Grant Thornton, the average industry operating profit margin across the 500 companies that made the cut was 3.23%, while the average pre-tax profit margin was 2.74%. [Product portfolio] [Star product: Mutoh XpertJet Pro series]( Manufacturer’s upgraded inkjets offer both speed and quality boosts. [Me & My: Vivid Laminating Technologies VeloBlade Volta 69+]( Brighton-based One Digital had always outsourced die-cutting jobs. It had a sizeable array of equipment in its factory that allowed it to take on all manner of digital and litho work, including a vinyl Summa machine, so it was used to setting up dies and cutting guides, but die-cutting was something it had never really considered bringing in-house. © MA Business Limited 2022. [Contact Us]( [Advertising]( [Subscribe]( If you wish to unsubscribe from Printweek Daily News emails, please click [here](. To understand how we process, use & safeguard your data, please read our [Privacy Policy](. If you would like to update your marketing contact preferences, then please [click here](.