French Hélio to increase printing capacity

Austrian commercial printing company Walstead Leykam Druck has entered into negotiations with its works council on the possible closure of the Müllendorf production facility. The final decision is expected to be taken before the year’s end. The parent group Let’s Print Holding reports the reasons for this measure...

Printed books remain one of the winners of the pandemic-hit years of 2020 and 2021 in Italy. While demand of printed non-fiction and fiction books decreased a little on Italy’s book market between 2021 and 2022, decidedly more books were still sold than in the years immediately prior to the pandemic. Data from the...

European printing industry association Intergraf is calling for improvements to the regulation that came into force in France on 1 January 2023, which severely restricts the permissible content of mineral oil components in printing inks. In a public statement, Intergraf says that the thresholds are over-ambitious, that...