THUNDER BAY—

 Citing plunging demand and rising costs, Thunder Bay Pulp and Paper announced Thursday it plans to end the production of newsprint, putting 150 people out of work.The company said it will file notices with the Ontario Ministry of Labour to cease newsprint operations in the first quarter of this year. “This decision was made only after significant efforts to reposition the company within the evolving and rapidly declining newsprint market were fully explored,” the company said.

COTEAU-DU-LAC, QUEBEC—

 Imprimerie Multiplus, recently installed three Versafire digital presses – its first digital investments with HEIDELBERG. Controlled via the Prinect Digital Frontend (DFE), the presses were selected as part of a strategic effort to better align digital and offset production. Multiplus utilizes Prinect to colour manage both its HEIDELBERG Speedmaster presses and Versafire digital presses, ensuring consistent results when running jobs for the same customer across different printing technologies.

KITCHENER, ONTARIO—

 Fourth generation Lehmann Bookbinding is winding down. Their building has been sold off and now all the equipment is being sold. Started over 100 years old started in 1913 by German immigrant J.C. Lehmann. The bindery  specialized in servicing libraries across Canada. Since the pandemic, work for libraries has collapsed.

UNITED KINGDOM—

 ColorCut SC7800 Pro-RS XL sets a new benchmark in automated die-cutting and creasing with its unique triple tool cutting and creasing head for large format press proofing, folder production, packaging and much more! Triple-tool Digital Die-Cutter, features a tangential wheel creaser (male) and a tangential wheel groove (female) tool – the ultimate  digital die cutter ever to be designed!

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The NewsWayX installation includes integrated Harlequin RIPs delivered in a SaaS environment, browser-based edition planning and tracking, broadsheet and tabloid imposition tools, low-resolution soft viewing, reader pair previews, and advanced conversion capabilities for pairing, rotation, cropping, and alignment. The system also supports furniture and text burning on plates, double-truck handling for key pages, file normalization, and load-balanced output to multiple CTP devices with colour locking.

HOBART, WISCONSIN—

 EMT International, a provider of digital finishing technology for the print and label industries, has announced the availability of its new dynamic perforating solution for heavy substrates, designed to meet the growing demands of high-speed inkjet production and heavier substrate processing. Expands capability beyond traditional lightweight stocks, enabling high-quality perforation on substrates up to 18-point.

ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN— 

A subsidiary of Hybrid Software Group ( Harlequin RIP).  Release  new imposition template editors directly within K2’s five concurrent Mac and Windows production clients, allowing users to create and modify imposition templates, marks, and marks profiles from their everyday workstations. This eliminates reliance on centralized editing and enables production teams to make adjustments quickly without disrupting overall workflow operations,

LONDON, ENGLAND—

 Running from the 2nd – 6th February, Two Sides encourage all printers, paper merchants, packaging manufacturers and all those who operate within the sector to support Love Paper week and use the materials available to inform their clients, customers and consumers more widely, why paper is such a sustainable, effective and attractive medium. Love Paper is a global initiative for the industry to collectively champion paper and sustainability to consumers and businesses.

TORONTO—

 PrintJOBS.ca has released their annual report for the Canadian printing industry summarizing 2025. PtintJOBS.ca is the largest job board for the industry in Canada. 2025 was a tight job market with positions harder to fill. Ads run longer and take longer to fill. The more creative ads are filled faster. Just saying the basic job facts does not work as well. Interesting statistics for 2025. Of the jobs posted the top 5 listed

SWITZERLAND—

 Muller Martini  new entry-level device for hardcover production. The new Diamant MC 30 runs at up to 30 cycles per minute, with Muller Martini describing it as an ideal gateway to hardcover production. The Diamant MC 30 book line features the same servo-driven Motion Control Technology and offers many proven functions of high-end book lines. It can produce straight or round book spines, with or without ribbons if required, and with three-piece hardcover cases or flexible cases.