The top 10 stories this week on printweek.com

We’ve pored over the statistics and analysed the traffic: so here’s what you have been looking at this past week on printweek.com

1. Kids stationery recall shows problems of outsourcing print

The most popular story on the site this week reveals how a massive recall of toxic SpongeBob SquarePants branded stationery has thrown the spotlight on the potential risks of outsourcing print to developing nations.

2. Postal innovation could be blessing for printers

A new business post service was launched that offers a faster, cheaper and simpler service by utilising a network of firms to print and insert the documents near the point of delivery.

3. Pindar plumps for second long perfector at all-Heidelberg site

Pindar Graphics installed the second Heidelberg long perfector at its Preston site in less than six months.

4. XGS bags £25m PM contract to add to public sector portfolio

Xerox Global Services' (XGS) hold in public sector contracts strengthened with a £25m win for print work with the NHS in the North West.

5. Best Cover UV grows market share with Olro tie-up

Best Cover UV claimed to offer the "largest single plant capacity for UV varnishing in the UK" after setting up a southern operation and striking a partnership with Essex-based Olro Print Finishers

6. Serious interest in Wace says TPF

TPF Group said it had had two “serious” approaches to buy Wace, the Swindon factory it plans to close.

7. Royal Mail and CWU push back talks deadline

Talks between the Communication Workers Union (CWU) strike and Royal Mail were extended beyond the 4 September deadline in the hopes of a settlement.

8. Global ink prices to skyrocket

Flint Group announced what could be the start of across-the-board ink price rises following changes to Chinese export regulations.

9. Smurfit defies industry practice of closing sites

Smurfit Kappa Group (SKG) issued a warning to the industry that it will no longer shut its sites in a bid to maintain paper prices if other firms are opening new mills.

10. Recycled paper take-up to rocket over next five years

Surging demand for recycled stock over the next five years is unlikely to have any real effects on the UK paper industry due to a lack of local papermaking capacity and a reliance on imports.