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The UKs first Komori S Lithrone, which is making its world debut at Ipex, will go to Cambridgeshire-based specialist carton printer Beamglow.

Visitors to Xaars Ipex stand will witness the birth of a new era in photographic quality output, the company has claimed, when it demonstrates the first full production greyscale ink-jet printhead.

Polestar chief executive Barry Hibbert expects "a number of business failures" this year as reduced paginations and price competiton hit printers.

Patricia Hewitt, secretary of state for Trade and Industry, has pulled out of her planned visit to Ipex next Wednesday (10 April).

Trinity Mirror has bolstered its CTP capacity by signing up for 10 Krause CTP lines for its Mirror Colour Print (MCP) sites at Watford, Oldham and Cardonald in Glasgow.

Stora Enso is to close its Papyrus paper merchanting division in the UK with the loss of 214 jobs

The organisers of Ipex 2002 hope to beat the 1998 exhibitions 91,662 visitors.

Centurion Press Group is considering selling its print management arm after calling in experts to review its market position.

Inveresks Scottish mills will operate in future as a single business unit instead of separate businesses.

Newspaper printers pulled out the stops to increase the pagination of Sunday editions following the late-breaking news of the death of the Queen Mother.

The GPMU is pressing ahead with a leaflet campaign to recruit members at a Wiltshire printer in the face of complaints from the company and reports of bullying and a police presence.

Papyrus, the merchanting division of Stora Enso, is preparing to implement a major restructuring programme in the UK and is believed to be considering the sale of some of its operating divisions to...

Finnish paper group M-real has sold Winpac Group, a subsidiary with operations in the UK that provides sheeting and logistics services to the paper and board industry, to a management-led team.

The future of Svecia Screen Printing could be decided in the next few days with its Swedish parent, Traction AB, close to concluding a deal with an unnamed party.

Parkside Flexibles is wrapping up a deal worth more than 15m to buy another packaging business from BP Chemicals.