Located in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, Cascades has garnered a coveted Pulp & Paper International (PPI) Award—this time with its newest product innovation, an environmentally friendly security paper made with 100% post-consumer fiber: CheckSecur Platinum Enviro.
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Eastman Kodak Co. has taken a big step toward getting out of bankruptcy.
The shrunken Rochester icon said Monday it has arranged $793 million in financing with four lenders that would help give the company the stability it needs to emerge from court protection sometime in the first half of 2013.
Stamford, Connecticut-based Cenveo Inc. announced results for the three and nine months ended Sept. 29, 2012.
Pittsburgh-based Printing Industries of America (PIA) is pleased to announce the election of its 2013 officers and board of directors.
The managed print services (MPS) market is showing high success rates and continued growth, according to a recent report from InfoTrends. Nevertheless, many organizations are not aware of or have not considered MPS as a viable option when evaluating their IT and printing budgets.
Staples recognizes the value of this market and has increasingly invested in a dedicated MPS team over the past two years.
Damage is expected to reach the “tens of millions” of dollars after fire gutted a major commercial printing operation in Indiana County, according to fire officials. The fire severely damaged the Creps United Publications printing plant just east of Indiana Borough in White Township.
No small part of the $50 billion economic loss being attributed to storm Sandy will come from business interruptions suffered by printing firms throughout the tristate metro region. Wherever the damage was worst, the toll taken on these highly vulnerable manufacturing operations was highest. Many remain out of commission, their electrical power gone, their communications severed, their work piling up and their employees stranded at home with gas gauges pointing at empty. But, as early as last Friday, in some of the less hard hit boroughs and towns, the first signs of recovery were beginning to appear.
Chicago-based RR Donnelley & Sons Company (RRD) reported third-quarter 2012 net earnings attributable to common shareholders of $71.4 million, or $0.39 per diluted share, on net sales of $2.5 billion compared to net earnings of $158.0 million, or $0.83 per diluted share, on net sales of $2.7 billion in the third quarter of 2011.
A new co-branding opportunity that allows independent print shop owners to expand their offerings to include signage and visual graphics services is quickly gaining traction and paving a path to recovery for business owners in the declining commercial print industry.
Hewlett-Packard Co. is set to unveil a new line of printers for business Tuesday. This marks one of the first major fruits of Chief Executive Meg Whitman's efforts to invest more in research and development as she tries to turn around the struggling technology company.
The printers, so-called multifunction machines that combine standard printers with scanners and software to manage electronic documents, are among the fastest-growing segment in the printing industry.