Equipment manufacturers

Metsa Board has opened a new Euro 50m biopower plant at its Kyro mill in Kyrokoski, Finland.

Ex-Manroland subsidiary ppi Media has appointed Ian Roberts as its UK and Ireland sales agent.

Kodak has forecast a total operating cash flow of $33m (20m) on revenue of $1.2bn for the first six months of 2013, although its US operation is forecast to lose $110m in the same period.

Intelligent Finishing Systems (IFS) has signed an an exclusive distribution contract with Lasermax Roll to bring the Swedish company's inline finishing equipment for continuous feed digital printers...

Xerox has upgraded its Nuvera cut-sheet mono digital press portfolio with the launch of two new devices, the single-engine Nuvera 157EA and the dual-engine perfecting Nuvera 314EA.

HP used Graph Expo to showcase its Indigo 10000 B2 digital press as well as several web-to-print solutions as it looked to continue its sales growth trend despite the uncertain print environment.

Unibind managing director Tsol Keoshgerian has become the sole shareholder of the Horsham-based binding manufacturer and has targeted future growth outside its core manufacturing business.

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Benford UV has appointed Abu Dhabi-based Giffin Graphics as its first ever agent directly dealing with customers in the Gulf region.