News

The MBA Group has bought selected assets of Paulton-based Polestar Select Envelopes, which it will seamlessly transfer to its envelope division in Milton Keynes over the next month.

TPL Printers in Kidderminster is to close.The companys 200 staff and customers were told the news on Wednesday afternoon (3 March). The plant will now begin a three month orderly shutdown period.

Komori plans to major on perfecting presses at Drupa, and will also use the show to launch a new 32pp web onto the European market.

Williams Lea is to benfit from a 20m influx of new capital from venture capital house 3i.

Packaging group British Polythene Industries (BPI) has posted strong preliminary results for the year ended December 2003.

Graphic arts industry body Picon will have 44 companies exhibiting at this years Drupa under its banner.

TPL Printers has today declined to comment on the intense industry speculation regarding the future of the Kidderminster web printer.

TPL Printers in Kidderminster is believed to be in the process of reviewing its production, according to industry sources today.

Trinity Mirror is looking to reduce its 12 print sites further following this weeks announcement that 14 jobs would go at its Aspley plant when production of the Huddersfield Examiner relocates to...

MAN Roland chief executive Gerd Finkbeiner said the company and the industry was heading into Drupa in May with mixed feelings.

Esko-Graphics plans to launch an OEM version of HighWater Designs entry-level B2 Python platesetter at Drupa, which it will re-badge as the PlateDriver Compact.

Presstek has overcome a drop in the supply of its imaging head technology to Heidelbergs Quickmaster DI press to record an overall growth in revenue for last year.

Reed Packaging, the Gateshead-based food and pharmaceutical carton manufacturer, has been put up for sale by its parent company Reed Print Group.

The Fair Deal Group of the BPIF, GPMU and the Packaging Federation have strong reservations that the latest investigation into the power of the supermarket chains will do anything to change the nature...

The GPMU and BPIF have settled on a 6.65 wage increase for this years National Agreement in what was described as complex negotiations.