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Leeds-based Imagco has partnered with renewable energy company Planet-U Energy to implement a range of sustainable solutions to help it reduce the carbon output of its Holbeck site by more than 30,000 tonnes per year.

Fujifilm is increasing the price of its inks, offset printing plates, processing chemicals and PWB films by a double-digit percentage as of 1 May.

Xaar has launched the Xaar Nitrox inkjet printhead, for printing speeds of up to 100m/min.

The next Esma Academy ‘Industrial Digital Print’ course will run online, on 8-10 June. 

Trade show organiser Fespa is launching a series of online events to help printers plan for business recovery. The new ‘FIT - Fespa Innovations and Trends’ programme kicks off with a wide-format orientated event on 26-27 May, followed by a printed clothing event on 9-10 June. 

CGS Oris has partnered with China’s HanGlobal Group for the next three years. Initially, CGS Oris colour management solutions will be applied to HanGlobal inkjet digital label and book presses. In a second phase, other digital printing presses of the HanGlory division - such as large format UV printers, digital corrugated packaging printers and textile printers - will follow. 

The numbers are out for the first virtual.drupa (20- 23 April).

 HP and Papergraphics will host a webinar at 10.30am on 27 April exploring the opportunities in decorative inkjet printing for commercial and residential interiors.

Global Inkjet Systems (GIS) has launched its next generation Atlas Image Quality (IQ) toolset - intelligent software for image management and compensation for inkjet printheads.

FM Future - organiser of FuturePrint virtual events - is launching FuturePrint Tech Fest this summer.

UK retail and shopper marketing agency Impact Retail has upgraded its Onset X1 printer to the higher-speed, automated Onset X1 HS in a world first.

Sappi has brought uncoated, bleached and completely recyclable virgin fibre liner Fusion Nature Plus to market. It can be used with digital, flexo and offset processes.

Forty-seven ‘Rising Stars’ are celebrating receiving grants of up to £1,500 each from The Printing Charity to invest in their personal and professional career development in the print, paper, publishing or packaging sector.

A quarter (23%) of small businesses think it is unlikely they will be in business beyond the end of the year as a result of the pandemic, reveals the latest Small Business Monitor from employee benefits platform WorkLife by OpenMoney.