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How Kodak yellow is turning green

1 week ago | printbusiness.co.uk | Debbie Ward

Kodak has hit its own targets for reduction in emissions and in water usage it has announced in the company’s 2024 Sustainability report. It had set a target to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 56% by 2025 and has been able to tick this off, and also achieved a 31% cut in water withdrawal – mostly at the Kodak Business Park in Rochester – ahead of time. Its Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions are significantly down as a result compared to the 2016 starting point.
Trade wars are not good business

1 week ago | printbusiness.co.uk | Debbie Ward

The scope of tariffs that the Trump administration plans to levy on all goods coming into the US caught everyone else by surprise last week. There are glaring anomalies in terms of the tariffs on remote islands in the Pacific or on the rate of the tariff on under developed countries where Tesla cars are as rare as hens’ teeth because workers earning a handful of dollars a day cannot afford to buy US goods.
Swype chooses Indigo 7900 as part of growth journey

1 week ago | printbusiness.co.uk | Debbie Ward

St Helen’s card print specialist Swype has added an HP Indigo 7900 allowing it to mothball an Indigo 5600 and keep an Indigo 5900 in reserve, such is the power of the new machine. As well as increasing capacity, the new press, delivered at the end of January, enables the business to expand the range of materials it can print on to include recycled PVC, boards and to produce wooden and PVC-free cards for a growing customer base.
Is there print on Mars?

3 weeks ago | printbusiness.co.uk | Debbie Ward

Print Business can exclusively reveal today that SpaceX, Elon Musk’s company with plans to populate Mars, is working on an inkjet press to be part of the first manned colony on the Red Planet. The scientists and engineers working on the logistics of making a manned flight to the Earth’s nearest planetary neighbour, are developing the SpaceX Starship as the huge rocket that will take the crew to Mars.
No surprises for those that stay abreast of trends

3 weeks ago | printbusiness.co.uk | Debbie Ward

The study commissioned by Kodak and carried out by US educational and research organisation Napco, unsurprisingly found that printers are better off when they can offer both digital and litho printing. The one provides unquestioned quality and efficiency on longer runs, the other efficiency on shorter runs and new opportunities such as personalisation. Kodak calls it the ‘and era’ for print, though for printers is a more accurate description.
Highcon hits the skids, seeks new finance

3 weeks ago | printbusiness.co.uk | Debbie Ward

Israeli digital finishing specialist finishing company Highcon has filed for bankruptcy protection in order to find a way to restructure its debt after cash flow and orders were hit by a combination of factors. While the company signed a number of orders at Drupa, many have been postponed until later this year due to uncertainties over the world economy, the continuing disruption to the corrugated sector caused by mega mergers and the background of continuing conflict in Gaza.
Koenig & Bauer has the strategy right says CEO

3 weeks ago | printbusiness.co.uk | Debbie Ward

Koenig & Bauer needs to be more profitable its CEO Andreas Pleßke tells shareholders in the company’s annual report for 2024. And he says that much of the work to do this is now complete. The company has been ahead of the game in terms of strategy he writes in the report’s Letter to Shareholders section. “A glance at our peers testifies to our strategic forethought. Competitors are entering or re-entering markets that we are are already successfully addressing.
Rapidity swoops on boxmaking expertise

3 weeks ago | printbusiness.co.uk | Debbie Ward

Rapidity has taken on five staff from British Looseleaf from the wreckage of the Reflections group. The move enables Rapidity to set up a box making operation at its site in Sidcup, across the yard from what was Reflections before its collapse last month. The expansion will provide much needed capacity for box production and meet a requirement for longer, albeit still short, run production.
Kodak’s ‘and era’ delivers the goods for commercial print

3 weeks ago | printbusiness.co.uk | Debbie Ward

Kodak has for the past year or more promoted its view that for the foreseeable future, commercial printers need to use both offset and digital print technologies. It describes this as at the “and era” for print. Now it has published the report of an extensive survey carried out by US print research body Napco which validates its beliefs. The organisation quizzed commercial printers in the US, Germany and Japan into the changes and opportunities working with digital alongside offset had presented.
Priest prepares for marathon event

3 weeks ago | printbusiness.co.uk | Debbie Ward

Aron Priest, one of the founders of Solopress, is preparing to run the London Marathon in a few weeks’ time. Priest has devoted his time to his charity work, setting up the Priest Foundation helping people with mental health issues in the Rochford and Southend area, since selling Solopress in 2019. In his 53 years he has never been a runner, yet when the charitable foundation was offered a place in the Marathon, Priest had the chance to participate.