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Newsprinters, the contract newspaper printing subsidiary of London-based Newsfax International, has installed Muller Martini post-press systems to handle output from its two MAN Roland Uniset 70...

Family-owned Waltham Litho in east London has bought its first Komori Press a six-colour Lithrone 28 with coater as part of a two-year investment plan.

Secretary of State for Trade and Industry Patricia Hewitt will announce the results of a major DTI study into the impact of e-commerce on the printing sector at Ipex.

Amcor Flexibles UK sales will rise to almost 200m with the acquisition of Rexams UK flexible packaging plants at Ledbury and Thetford.

The joint owners of West Ferry Printers are "back to square one" after 15 months of legal wrangling that has cost an estimated 1m.

Lawson Mardon will install a 5m gravure press in the second quarter of 2003 at its Salterbeck flexible packaging site in Cumbria.

SunChemical Gibbon believes its new Finaset ink will steal the show at Ipex.

The BPIF has launched an investigation with the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) into paper cartels and has called on members to provide any hard evidence.

Oldham Borough Council has signed a five-year 9m deal with Xerox to manage its printing.

Service Point has won the 25m contract to manage design, document management and print for Terminal 5 from BAA.

Rudolph Hell, one of the great printing technology developers of the 20th century, has died aged 100.

SunChemicals January 2000 acquisition of Coates Lorilleux from TotalFina plunged the groups UK operations deep into the red for that year, its latest accounts have revealed.

Williams Lea, the London-based print and facilities management group, plans to seek a public listing in the next 12 months.

Credit insurer Euler Trade Indemnity has not cut its cover across the whole printing sector.

Scorpio Print Finishers has reacted with incredulity after the GPMU launched an aggressive recognition campaign at the company.