Deanprint bids deadline; Firm fined for forklift fail; Manchester mill strike; and more...

[View in web browser]( [View text-only version]( [PrintWeek]( Thursday 13 April 2023 [Daily news bulletin] [Sponsored by Quadient] [Today's top stories] [Deadline set for Deanprint bids]( [Deadline set for Deanprint bids]( Bids for the historic Deanprint business need to be in by next week and a meeting of creditors has been called for Manchester Printers Ltd as the troubled group continues to unravel, with accounts for Manchester Printers Group Ltd now flagged as overdue. [Firm fined after forklift incident]( [Firm fined after forklift incident]( A specialist supplier to the industry has been fined £600,000 after an employee’s leg was crushed by a forklift truck. [Production strike at Saica’s Manchester paper mill]( [Production strike at Saica’s Manchester paper mill]( Production staff at Saica Paper UK’s Partington factory have voted to strike over pay and conditions. [Midland Regional Printers backs optimism with £450k die-cutter order]( Midland Regional Printers (MRP) has ordered a new Sanwa 1060 SCB Axia blanking and die-cutting machine, to be installed in September 2023. [Jobs at risk as Mondi refocuses Neusiedler mill]( Mondi is investing to optimise the performance of the operation at its Neusiedler uncoated fine paper mill in Austria, with job losses expected. [YPS adds iEcho cutting tables to stocklist]( Your Print Specialists (YPS) has become a reseller of iEcho digital cutting tables after agreeing a partnership with distributor Sabur Digital. [Sponsored content] [Leading Indian board mill sets sights on UK growth with AM partnership]( [Leading Indian board mill sets sights on UK growth with AM partnership]( AM Trading UK has been appointed exclusive official UK partner for all Emami coated board products, as it targets expanding the options for UK packaging converters. [Yesterday's most read] [Graham Harris retires]( [De La Rue shares tank after another profit warning]( [Stora Enso to halve capacity at Anjala book paper mill]( [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] [The February and March issue is out now. Our ‘2023 Shortlist issue’ is jam-packed with the best the UK print industry has to offer as well as all the usual thought-provoking insights and the latest news and views...]( [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] [No2 Minder - Heidelberg Speedmaster CD 102-6]( [Client Services Executive]( [Project Manager - Signage]( [CAD Operator (Zund & Kongsberg) - POS / Large Format]( [Senior Project Manager/Project Managerx2-Events&Exhibitions]( [See the latest jobs]( [Knowledge Bank] [Offering a helping hand]( [Offering a helping hand]( Not for decades have we all been under so much pressure financially. Rising energy bills, relatively high mortgage rates, food prices on the increase, and to cap it all, a tax burden that is at a 70-year peak – there is real pain being felt. [The protection racket]( [The protection racket]( Data protection issues are rarely far from the news. And as the recent ransomeware attack on Royal Mail in January illustrated, not only are they publicly embarrassing, they can be commercially disastrous both for the attacked organisation and its customers. [Is the decline in skilled print workers a cause for concern?]( [Is the decline in skilled print workers a cause for concern?]( On the face of it, statistics released recently that revealed the number of skilled tradespeople working in the print sector fell by 73% between 2006 and 2021 seem alarming. [Product portfolio] [Star product: Serif Affinity Version 2]( A fully featured yet very low-cost challenger to Adobe’s Creative Suite – with Pantone swatch libraries. What’s not to like? [Me & My: SwissQprint Nyala 4]( A grant of £54,200 from New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership’s (LEP) Growing Business Fund helped to fund a new 3.2x2m flatbed/roll printer at CIM Signs & Graphics, a sign printing and installation specialist based just to the north of Norwich. © MA Business Limited 2023. [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](.