Zolfo Cooper has confirmed to PrintWeek that nobody from the company has, as of midday today (24 May), been appointed as administrator. There has been no official statement from MPG. Workers at the firm’s Bodmin and King’s Lynn plants were said to have been trying to help customers with work-in-progress, according to a source, even though staff at these facilities appear unlikely to receive their wages this month. According to local reports the 60 staff at Bodmin were told not to come into work today. At MPG’s Cambridge facility, workers are paid two weeks in arrears and two weeks in advance under an arrangement agreed with then-employer Cambridge University Press when it moved over to monthly pay, so staff there have already been paid for this month....

Ultra Board Fire will be unveiled at Fespa next month, along with new company branding and website. Fire is the latest in the Ultra Board range of display panels, which the company said are sustainably manufactured and ideal for retail, internal signage and exhibition stand applications, and is “100% fire-retardant”. Like the rest of the Ultra Board range, the new product uses a honeycomb structure for a strong yet light material. The company said that Fire is ideal for applications that require an eco-friendly, fire-rated alternative to PVC, adding that it was well-suited to a range of uses including POS, exhibition and retail displays and stand-alone signs in fire safety locations. The surface facing is also appropriate for digital and screen printing as the product has been developed to have a whiter surface designed specifically to take coloured ink. Marketing manager Alex Brownhill said: “Ultra Board Fire gives our customers great quality print with that extra reassurance of a fire-rated product, and also as it is 100% recyclable.”...

Ultra Board Fire will be unveiled at Fespa next month, along with new company branding and website. Fire is the latest in the Ultra Board range of display panels, which the company said are sustainably manufactured and ideal for retail, internal signage and exhibition stand applications, and is “100% fire-retardant”. Like the rest of the Ultra Board range, the new product uses a honeycomb structure for a strong yet light material. The company said that Fire is ideal for applications that require an eco-friendly, fire-rated alternative to PVC, adding that it was well-suited to a range of uses including POS, exhibition and retail displays and stand-alone signs in fire safety locations. The surface facing is also appropriate for digital and screen printing as the product has been developed to have a whiter surface designed specifically to take coloured ink. Marketing manager Alex Brownhill said: “Ultra Board Fire gives our customers great quality print with that extra reassurance of a fire-rated product, and also as it is 100% recyclable.”...

The 430mm-wide eight-colour LP3000 is fitted with a GEW UV system that will enable Tamar to offer a “premium-quality” range of labels to customers and will help ensure consistency and efficiency. Tamar operations director Ricky Hann described the new press as a “productivity platform” and said it had already enabled the company to win a series of lucrative new contracts. “With the inline foil and screen capability, we saw the LP3000 as a giant leap forward. Just having this press has already opened the doors to new markets for the production of luxury and other primary product labels in sectors such as packaging, cosmetics, and healthcare,” he said. The Mark Andy press will sit alongside Tamar’s existing fleet of Edale narrow web flexo and Nilpeter eight-colour UV flexo presses and HP Indigo digital label presses. Managing director Robert Lee said the LP3000 would provide Tamar with enough high-quality capacity to enable the company to continue moving the business forward. “We’re looking to consolidate our production capabilities with an aggressive company-wide reinvestment strategy that will include investments in new speciality coating lines, along with improvements to workflow solutions that will serve to deliver greater flexibility on how we operate as a business,” he said....

The 430mm-wide eight-colour LP3000 is fitted with a GEW UV system that will enable Tamar to offer a “premium-quality” range of labels to customers and will help ensure consistency and efficiency. Tamar operations director Ricky Hann described the new press as a “productivity platform” and said it had already enabled the company to win a series of lucrative new contracts. “With the inline foil and screen capability, we saw the LP3000 as a giant leap forward. Just having this press has already opened the doors to new markets for the production of luxury and other primary product labels in sectors such as packaging, cosmetics, and healthcare,” he said. The Mark Andy press will sit alongside Tamar’s existing fleet of Edale narrow web flexo and Nilpeter eight-colour UV flexo presses and HP Indigo digital label presses. Managing director Robert Lee said the LP3000 would provide Tamar with enough high-quality capacity to enable the company to continue moving the business forward. “We’re looking to consolidate our production capabilities with an aggressive company-wide reinvestment strategy that will include investments in new speciality coating lines, along with improvements to workflow solutions that will serve to deliver greater flexibility on how we operate as a business,” he said....