Print businesses are being urged to complete a Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) survey that will shape which industries gain ‘vulnerable industry’ status under the new Energy Bill Relief Scheme.
Industry alliance the GPMA has warned of “mass business failure” if the fresh government doesn’t act immediately to cap industrial energy costs, describing the crisis as “an existential threat for the UK’s graphics and print media sector”.
Print industry representatives have hailed a meeting with the Home Office last week as a “breakthrough” in their quest to amend planned changes to the Misuse of Drugs Act that would effectively ban certain ingredients crucial to the manufacture of inks and press chemistry.
Industry trade association collective the GPMA has warned the government that the use of chemicals newly-classified as Class B dugs has been “grossly underestimated” in the printing industry, and the inkjet inks affected by the reclassification should be exempt.
The newly appointed Chairman of the Flexographic Industry Association (FIAUK ), Andy Wilson, has shared insights into some of the initiatives he is set to lead during his tenure as Chairman of FIA UK.