News

Chip and security card producer ID Data is closing its Lewes print site, threatening the jobs of 79 GPMU members, under plans to move a proportion of its manufacturing overseas.

Gardners is switching 85% of its current production onto the UKs first Agfa Dotrix the.factory press, which it anticipates will transform its business and the industry as a whole.

The <i>Guardian</i> may become a mid-sized paper, partway between a compact and a broadsheet.

The government has drawn up a list of preferred suppliers to the NHS aimed at saving more than 50m over a four-year period from its print and photocopying bill.

Polestar has signed an agreement with IPC Media for the production of more than 1bn magazines over the next five years.

Stora Enso is to produce a new upgraded version of its NovaPress range as part of its new product developments and enhancements this year.

Close Asset Finance is rolling out a new look that will see the company rebranded as Close Print Finance.

Agfa has agreed to buy Italian plate firm Lastra in a cash deal.

HighWater Designs has become the first firm to use a more powerful 60mW laser diode in its platesetters and will be offering a three-year warranty on the lasers.

Prism launched WIN Express at MIS 2004 last week, which was designed to simplify and cut the time taken for implementation.

Digital printer Cats Solutions has won a facilities management deal to help boost the print capacity of PR Newswire.

Elliott Baxter is to continue to look for further potential acquisitions, having purchased York & Ford Paper (Southern) from the administrative receivers (<i>PrintWeek</i>, 11 March).

<i>Cosmopolitan</i>s handbag-sized format is to be put on a more permanent footing, with the new size to roll out from April 2004 onwards.

Print management firm etrinsic has secured the contract to handle all of retailer Topps Tiles print.

Polestar has picked up the contract to produce a newspaper supplement in Irelands largest selling newspaper the <i>Sunday Independent</i>.