Paul Anger, editor and publisher of the Gannett-owned Detroit Free Press, has been named winner of the 2009 Benjamin C. Bradlee Editor of the Year Award by the National Press Foundation (NPF).
DuPont Engineering Polymers (EP) received a record fourth award from customers as “Polymer Producer of the Year” in recent ceremonies in London, United Kingdom (UK). In their voting, plastic industry customers cited DuPonts technical materials and support as exemplary. The company also won this award in 2008, 2003 and 2001.
Najam Sethi, the former Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Times in Pakistan, has been awarded the 2009 Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom prize of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA).
UPM will supply roughly nine million sheets of copy paper in cooperation with office supplies company Lyreco to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, 7-18 December 2009. UPM Future from UPM’s Docelles mill in France was selected due to its superior environmental features, including sustainable sourcing of wood raw material and the EU Eco-label, the official EU mark awarded to greener products.
Further to the announcement of 22 September, Rio Tinto has completed the sale of Alcan Composites, part of the Alcan Engineered Products division, to Schweiter Technologies for a total consideration of US$349 million.
The PrintCity Alliance has signed the Copenhagen Communiqué on Climate Change, calling for an ambitious, robust and equitable global deal on climate change that responds credibly to the scale and urgency of the crises facing the world today.
Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) today announced that G&D has become the sole shareholder in Venyon Oy by acquiring the shares held by Nokia. G&D held a majority of the shares before the acquisition. Since its creation in 2006, Venyon has established itself as one of the leading trusted service managers (TSM) on the mobile near field communication (NFC) market.
