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NEWS GLOBAL

IN BRIEF Heidelberg presents
Stora Enso’s ambition is to
offer 100% regenerative
products and solutions by its Prinect App
2050. By adopting a regen-
erative stance, Stora Enso is
shifting its sustainability
goals from minimising Heidelberg is taking the digi- users to determine the cur-
negative environmental tization of its customer rela- rent performance of a print
impact to becoming a net tionships incorporating shop based on real-time data
positive1 contributor within the defined focus areas of cli- useful value-added services from the most important
mate, circularity and biodiversity by 2050. “As a renewable to the next level. “Heidelberg KPIs.
materials company, our core business is about offering Plus” is the new gateway to “With the first Prinect app
solutions to sustainability challenges. To balance staying Heidelberg’s digital ecosys- available in Heidelberg Plus,
within planetary boundaries and securing economic and tem, which customers can our Heidelberg digital eco-
social progress, the world needs a transformation away enter with a single login and App was presented in Cloud system is gaining momen-
from fossil dependency and a linear economy. With this access all of Heidelberg’s digi- tum, and the customer
commitment Stora Enso aims to be a leading actor in driv- tal offerings. Future applica- the slogan “Always a Step benefits of digitization are
ing the transformation towards a biobased circular econo- tions will make use of cloud Ahead”, Heidelberg was becoming increasingly
my. We will be transparent with our progress, taking a sci- technologies, IoT, Big Data, showcasing Prinect Print apparent,” says Ludwig
ence-based approach, to offer regenerative solutions that and AI to offer customers Shop Analytics, the first Allgoewer, global head of
not only mitigate environmental impact, but restore and added value when it comes to cloud-based Prinect app sales & marketing at
rebuild,” says Annica Bresky, Stora Enso’s President and running their companies. offered through Heidelberg Heidelberg. “Market surveys
CEO. As part of Innovation Week Plus that will become availa- have shown that our custom-
Essentra plans to become a 2021, that took place from ble to customers in the ers urgently want the func-
“pure play” components October 13 to 15 at the course of the coming year. tions of an app like Prinect
business, meaning its Wiesloch-Walldorf site under This is a tool that enables Print Shop Analytics.”
Filters and Packaging divi-
sions are likely to be sold Fujifilm announces price raise
off. The PLC announced the
strategic shift today (26
October), and said that as a Fujifilm Europe today costs can no longer be sus- Platesense program.
first step its board would announces that, as a result of tained in this way. Fujifilm Taku Ueno, SVP at Fujifilm
review “the full range of strategic options for the Filters
business”. In Q3 2021, Essentra’s Components wing achieved sustained and substantial will continue to mitigate Graphic Systems EMEA says:
like-for-like sales up 28.5%, and up 14.2% on the equiva- increases in the costs of raw other rising costs, such as “Earlier this year we
lent period in 2019, pre-pandemic. The division had sales materials and logistics, it will exchange rate fluctuations, informed our customers of
of £255m last year. Filters sales were up 2.8%, while be increasing the surcharge energy and paper. an increase in our raw mate-
Packaging revenues were down 6.1% “due to delays in the on its aluminium offset print- Fujifilm will base its plate rials and logistics costs. Over
recovery of elective surgeries and prescription levels” ing plates by an average of surcharges on the London recent months the situation
caused by Covid-19, and down 15.2% on the same period in £0.60 per square metre from Metal Exchange rate, which has evolved to an unprece-
2019. 1st November, 2021. will be reviewed monthly. dented level. While this is
Xaar shareholders have Fujifilm has been working Details of the new structure unfortunate, and we cer-
approved the firm’s plans hard to absorb material price will be communicated to all tainly understand that these
to sell its stake in 3D print- increases by reducing its own customers across EMEA. For conditions are hugely diffi-
ing business Xaar 3D. operating costs and improv- printers looking for certainty cult for our customers, the
Earlier this month Xaar ing productivity. However, in in plate pricing over the long new surcharge will be offset
announced that it planned the case of aluminium, the term, a stable plate price is by the increase in the value of
to dispose of its stake to sheer magnitude of rising available via Fujifilm’s scrap aluminium.”
joint venture partner
Stratasys. At a general
overwhelmingly in favour, with the owners of more than DS Smith calls for recycling reform
meeting held earlier today (25 October), shareholders voted
54m shares saying yes to the move, just 235 against, and
6,000 abstentions. Xaar said it was pleased to receive DS Smith CEO Miles struggling to cope as parcels
approval, and expected to complete the disposal on 1 Roberts has called for the and online shopping have
November. The revised consideration is worth up to $33.83m UK’s fragmented recycling boomed during the Covid-19
(£24.9m) and Xaar will be entitled to receive royalties on systems to be standardised – pandemic, while the recy-
products and services sales for up to 15 years.
and for there to be separate cling rates for paper and
Prinovis is moving from 24/7 to 24/5 operation – but with collections for paper and cardboard have actually
the option to scale back up at peak periods – as part of a card – in order to plug a recy- fallen by 15% since 2017.
restructure following the loss of the DMG Media supple- cling gap that could be cost- DS Smith’s new collaboration “Much of this alarming
ments last month. The Liverpool firm is the UK’s sole publi- ing the economy up to £1bn a drop can be put down to the
cation gravure printer. It announced the proposals to staff year. UK, which was “not doing fragmented way in which we
yesterday (20 October), and said the restructure would With the COP26 UN enough” to keep up with go about recycling in the UK,
“ensure that a healthy, well invested and financially viable Climate Change Conference leading recycling nations with up to 300 different
business remains in the market for the foreseeable future. in Glasgow poised to kick off such as Germany, Austria and council recycling schemes in
Prinovis will continue to supply those customers that value on Sunday 31 October, the Netherlands. England alone and a huge
quality, reliability and innovation in their printed commu- Roberts said that the eyes of He said the UK’s “creaking variety of kerbside recycling
nications.
the world would be on the recycling infrastructure” was systems,” he said
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