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One Stop Folders has installed the UKs first Tauler laminator, bringing the process in-house.

Amicus is to ballot its 5,000 members in the papermaking industry on a new complex pay deal.

M-real has announced a 6-7% UK price hike for all woodfree and uncoated reels from 6 February, with similar rises for sheets expected soon after.

Big is beautiful

Quebecor World has sold its stake in Quebecor Merrill Canada (QMC), concluding its divestiture of non-core assets.

Shanghai-based Wenxin United Press Group, publisher of the <i>Shanghai Daily</i>, has begun construction of a 200,000sqm printing centre.

The Alden Groups Malaysian print facility has gone live.

St Ives has issued a profits warning which, according to reports, has driven its share price to a 12 year low.

Polestar has increased its operating profit from continuing operations for 2005 and has revealed that it has become the primary print supplier to Emap.

Sun Chemical has signed a licensing agreement with its biggest rival in the digital ink market, Fujifilm Sericol, to use its UV ink-jet technology.

Global print giant RR Donnelley has filed a patent lawsuit against Quark and Creo.

Trinity Mirror is bumping up its two leading tabloids by producing millions of copies of two new supplements for <i>The Racing Post</i> and <i>Daily Mirror</i>.

Communisis has secured a 3m contract to supply bank drafts and cheque books to Allied Irish Bank (AIB).

Apex Digital Graphics aims to coax printers into trading in two-page portrait presses and switch to landscape B3 machines to keep up with market trends.

Beswick Paper has taken a 25% shareholding in Scottish independent paper merchant Meadow Paper and become an associate member of the Igepa Group.