

The paper industry must retool
Diversification and innovation are necessary to succeed in emerging packaging applications
Printer fined after worker injured while cleaning press
Imprimeries Transcontinental fined $60,000 for failing to ensure the worker was informed, trained to safely operate the printing press.
Transcontinental benefits from short-term wage subsidy
Most of its revenue decline was in printing, which services newspaper and flyer producers.
Postmedia workers at Toronto printing plant officially unionized by CMG
Application approved July 2 after workers voted 48 to 18 to join the union.
Transcontinental CEO calls bid to ban flyers in Montreal ‘incoherent’
He says it fails to take into account Quebec consumers’ needs and hands a flyer monopoly to Canada Post.

GM, Autodesk are lightening up: technology reduces parts weight
Technology collaboration eliminates mass and consolidates parts.

Javelin, Cimetrix Solutions to form 3D printing powerhouse
Will include senior management from both companies, with offices across Canada.
Transcontinental to diminish printing role with $1.3B packaging deal
$1.32 billion purchase of Coveris Americas makes it North America’s seventh-largest packaging company.
Transcontinental buys Multifilm Packaging, a US snack, candy packager
The company’s sixth acquisition since entering the flexible packaging industry.
Transcontinental ready for large packaging acquisition to transform company
$1 billion to purchase companies would allow flexible packaging revenues to surpass printing for the first time.
Postmedia sells Toronto printing plant for $30.5M
Media company acquired the facility as part of its agreement to buy Sun Media’s English-language properties in 2015.
Torstar Corp. to sell Vaughan, Ont. printing plant for $54.25M
Newspaper publisher shifted the plant’s work to Transcontinental in July.
Transcontinental to shut NS printing plant, 55 layoffs to come
Move due to the shifting landscape for some commercial products.
Transcontinental sells print assets in Saskatchewan
Thirteen newspapers, equipment and book business sold to Star news Publishing.