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UK-based corrugated packaging giant DS Smith has reported performance in line with expectations as it eyes continued overseas expansion.

Trade printer Calderprint has acquired a promotional gift company, nudging its turnover to just over £10m.

Finishing equipment supplier Intelligent Finishing Systems has confirmed that it will take a stand at the PrintWeekLive! event in March 2017.

Printing kit reseller Quality Print Services (QPS) has sold its first Easymount wide-format laminator, to POS specialist GBL Associates, since becoming an Easymount reseller around six months ago.

Heidelberg has announced that it is taking five refugees onto its internship programme and said it hopes all five will progress onto its formal three-year training programme.

Plockmatic has hinted that it could make more acquisitions in the near future. The company bought Italian bindery kit manufacturer KGS Bindery in April and UK post-press specialist Morgana in 2013.

EFI and Konica Minolta have launched a new Fiery digital front-end (DFE) for Konica's bizhub Press 1052e and 1250e/P black and white digital printers.

German coatings and media manufacturer Sihl Direct has decided to discontinue its exclusive distribution contract with SwissQprint as part of a refocusing of its operations.

YM Group has made a further major expansion of its web offset capacity with the purchase of the 64pp short-grain press from the former Polestar Sheffield site.

Landa Digital Printing is hiring for a range of key technical and managerial positions as it inches towards the commercial launch of its Nanographic digital presses next year.

Card and invitation printer The Print Factory has invested £200,000 in a wide variety of kit, including a Xerox Versant 80 digital press, a Duplo DC-745 slitter-cutter-creaser and a Multigraf folder.

Trade printer Swanline Print Group has launched single-faced products, including a new flute profile for the UK corrugated industry, following its installation of Pivab rewinder technology.

Roland DG has announced the launch of two new wide-format eco-solvent printers in its TrueVis range, the 760mm-wide SG-300 and the 1.4m-wide SG-540.

Print and mail specialist DST UK has invested around £5m in new machinery for its Dagenham, Essex site in a bid to accelerate its migration to inkjet.

Manor Group is set to go into administration just two weeks after affiliated business Hastings Printing Company was shut down.