News
Sweet Music
<i>NME</i>, the world-famous music weekly, is rolling out its first newspaper-format publication under the <i>NME</i> name for nearly 20 years.
Customer care in big demand
PrintYorkshire, Vision in Print and the BPIF are staging two workshops on customer service, due to increasing interest in the subject.
Type Museum to close due to funding crisis
A trove of print kit, fonts and memorabilia, billed as a "world showcase", is under threat after the closure of Londons Type Museum was announced last week.
L&S purchases Komori S528
L&S Litho has increased its capacity with a five-colour Komori S528, the fifth Komori to be installed at the Glasgow-based firm.
Label Makers boosts its flexo plate capabilities
Bradford-based The Label Makers has installed a raft of DuPont platemaking machinery to "keep pace" with its new flexo presses.
Ultragraph bumps up output with new CTP
Ultragraph has invested 170,000 in a Heidelberg platesetter to boost output and meet a need for 2,000 plates a month.
Rise in Artwork Systems profit
Artwork Systems has recorded solid results after a busy start to the financial year.
Developers ramp up leading image personalisation tools
Three developers of image personalisation and variable data software, DirectSmile, XMPie and DirecType, have announced developments and upgrades to their ranges.
Kodak brings in new director
Kodak has appointed Kenneth Swanson as its new director of business development for the graphic communications group.
Olympic Cutting Formes scoops business grant
Olympic Cutting Formes has won a grant to sharpen up its business and fine-tune a patent for an exhibition panel system.
Pelican brings in Bolero binder
Pelican Print Finishing aims to impress magazine and commercial clients with its new Muller Martini binding machine.
In Brief Post-Press
Beardow Adams has appointed Trevor Gallivan to a newly created position, product specialist for bookbinding. Gallivan has over 20 years experience supporting bookbinders. He has previously worked with...
Euro firms at centre of Uruguayan mill fracas
Spanish and Finnish paper companies have been sucked into an escalating crisis in South America over plans to build two 1bn ($1.8bn) paper mills in Uruguay.
Finns fail to attract paper interest
UPM is in discussions over the sale of its Voikkaa paper mill site in Finland, but has yet to receive an offer from a company that will continue paper production.
M-real profit hit in second quarter
M-real has taken a 17m (24m) hit after racking up huge costs from kit upgrades and the recent Finnish paper mill strikes.