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Heidelbergs management hopes that Mondays planned strike by members of the German metalworkers union IG Metall can be averted, but is confident that lead times will not be affected.

Madison Dearborn Partners, a Chicago-based private equity company, has emerged as the bidder for Jefferson Smurfit Group in a possible 2bn takeover.

Sappi hopes growth in ad spend will lead to an increase in coated paper demand and prices in the second half of the year.

Barnes Print Group in Nottingham has taken over local general print company WJ Butler.

UK printers sealed a hat-trick of awards at this years Sappi European Printer of the Year awards in Venice, Italy.

The Witham-based printer Woodford Litho has installed an Agfa Xcalibur VLF 70 to feed its web presses.

Creo has made progress in "scaling its business to the current economy" and believes it is poised to exploit opportunities as business picks up.

Leicesters Richmond Printers and London-based repro house Zebra have installed Kodak Polychrome Graphics (KPG) digital Matchprint on their Trendsetter CTP systems.

Troika Systems has launched a digital dotmeter that costs less than 500.

Icon Reproduction, the magazine and book pre-press house, has invested in a Colorbus RIP to drive a Xerox DocuColor 12 digital printer for producing multiple sets of proofs for book work.

Agfa has reported much-improved figures for the first quarter of 2002, as the benefits of its Horizon restructuring plan begin to come through.

Creo expects to sign a worldwide plate bundling deal with Lastra.

Chameleon, the Northampton-based packaging repro house, has installed Nexus workflow software from Artwork Systems.

CIP4 The International Cooperation for the Integration of Processes in Prepress, Press and Postpress has released version 1.1 of the Job Definition Format (JDF) specification.

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has named Datec 2000 as a distributor of its DesignJet range of large-format printers and has confirmed that Westcoast will be a fellow distributor.