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Ormolu Group and Waddies have confirmed their merger to create a group with sales of over 60m.

Publisher Forme Communications has been placed into compulsory liquidation after being hit by a winding-up order from HM Customs & Excise.

Goss has introduced a new straight version of its Uniliner press range to rival Heidelbergs Mainstream.

Polestar Purnell has bolstered its bindery with a 2m investment in Muller Martini equipment originally destined for the groups Spanish operations.

British Polythene Industries (BPI) will be forced to pass on raw material increases of 30% to 50% to customers due to supply problems in the polymer industry.

West Ferry, the Docklands-based newspaper printer, rewarded staff members who had achieved new training standards at a ceremony last week.

Will it or wont it? Kodak Polychrome Graphics (KPG) plans to launch a violet CTP plate, according to industry commentator Andrew Tribute (pictured).

TAG has signed up with cut-price data call provider isdn datacom to cut advertising delivery costs.

The ORIS Digital Proofing System from CGS Publishing Technologies International has become the first ink-jet proofing system for Epson printers to gain Specifications for Web Offset Publications...

The incorporation of digital printing with production and packing lines by end-users will have an increasing impact on the digital printing of packaging, according to a new Pira report.

Scitexs outlook remains uncertain for the rest of the year due to the continuing weakness of the global economy.

Inca Digital, the Cambridge-based firm that manufactures the Eagle 44 flatbed ink-jet printer, is now offering off-the-shelf electronics and software kits for controlling ink-jet print heads.

Sappi has completed all the regulatory requirements for its 337m purchase of Potlatch Corporations printing papers division and its Cloquet pulp and paper mill in Minnesota, US.

UPM-Kymmene is to invest 157m (250m) in a new single-line recovery island at its Pietarsaari kraft pulp mill in Finland.

Antalis has been appointed exclusive UK distributor for French paper designer Thibierge & Comars new Evanescent range of luxury text and cover papers.