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BPIF calls for support over 'impractical' apprenticeship standard
The BPIF is urging printers to support its call for the government to review its conditions for the creation of a 'trailblazer' print apprenticeship standard.

Landa sells Metallography tech to LDP investor
Landa Digital Printing (LDP) investor Altana has acquired the Landa Metallography technology that was previewed at Drupa last year; while LDP now expects to make its first Nanography press...

In Print kicks off £500,000 investment with StitchLiner buy
Commercial printer In Print has kicked off a £500,000 investment progamme with the purchase of a Horizon StitchLiner 6000.

Newco emerges in Headleys saga
Headley Brothers has announced plans to make 85 roles redundant – 45% of the workforce – while a new company that has links to the firm's existing directors has been set up and could be a potential...

Overmatter: trolling the trolls
Well-known Arsenal fan Piers Morgan, the man so many people seem to love to hate (Overmatter cannot imagine why) seems to have met his match in the face of wildly popular Harry Potter author JK...

Killer app: Wyndeham scores 10 for folded underwear job
Luxury quarterly 10 Magazine was seeking innovation for its Victoria’s Secret issue, which hit the newsstands earlier this month. In stepped Cornwall-based Wyndeham Roche, with whom it had worked...

Vivid to bring four Matrix laminators to PrintWeekLive!
Vivid Laminating Technologies will showcase four of its Matrix foiling and laminating machines on its stand at PrintWeekLive!, as well as launching a new video book product.

CreaseStream signs up to PrintWeekLive!
Tech-ni-fold sister company CreaseStream has chosen PrintWeekLive! to launch its entry-level desktop Card Creaser and showcase the new Tri-Creaser Advance technology in its CreaseStream Mini range.

Textile specialist invests £250,000 in grand-format FabriVu 340
Specialised Canvas Group, the textile printer trading as Flagmakers and Banner Box, has taken delivery of a grand-format EFI Vutek FabriVu 340 fabric printer, in a move that will almost quadruple its...

Fatality at Precision North
Precision North managing director Martyn Young has died following an incident involving a forklift truck.

Antalis poised to float as parent hit by $138m court claim
Antalis and Arjowiggins parent Sequana has lost the latest round of its long-running High Court battle with BAT Industries and has filed for temporary creditor protection in France while it looks to...

Redundancies at Headleys
Workers at Headley Brothers are braced for news of wide-scale redundancies at the up-for-sale business, which has again extended the measures that provide it with protection from creditors.

Stora to shut down paper machine at Swedish Mill
Stora Enso is targeting savings of €12m (£10.3m) with plans to permanently close a paper machine at its Kvarnsveden Mill in Sweden.

MBA poised for Ricoh first as VC60000 hat-trick nears
MBA Group is soon to go live with two more Ricoh Pro VC60000 colour inkjet webs, making it the first company in the world to have three of the machines.

CMYUK bolsters digital sales team
Wide-format media and hardware supplier CMYUK has boosted its sales team with the addition of digital sales consultant, Sue Hayward.