News

A rumoured picket of Polestar Chromoworks in Nottingham by disaffected GPMU chapel officials has failed to materialise.

The adoption of CTP ate into Litho Supplies' sales of consumables and traditional pre-press equipment for the year to 31 December 2001 and its pre-tax profits dropped too.

Polestar Chromoworks has been saved from closure by a last-minute intervention from GPMU general secretary Tony Dubbins.

Lexicon, the transactional data and mailing arm of Adare Printing Group, has secured a two-and-a-half year contract with Yell worth 750,000 a year.

American Express has become one of the first customers to go live with MBA Groups new online ordering service.

Bridge Direct and MetroMail hope to generate more than 1m of print within 12 months after launching their Print2Post partnership.

Inveresk expects "progressive improvement" throughout the year after a slow start.

The environmental issues surrounding paper production will top the agenda at this years Periodical Publishers Association (PPA) Magazines 2002 seminar.

Papyrus, the UK merchanting arm of Stora Enso, is the latest paper supplier looking to push through price increases.

International Paper (IP) has issued a frank apology to its salesforce, merchant partners and customers after admitting it had been unable to meet recent paper supply requirements.

The Waste Resources Action Programme (WRAP) and UPM-Kymmene (UK) have signed the contract for the funding of new waste paper reprocessing capacity.

Agfa will announce its next-generation direct imaging (DI) plate at Ipex, which it claims increases run lengths "by a factor of four".

Openshaw has welcomed the "white knight" buyout of Xeikon by Belgian firm Punch.

Scitex has reported a net loss of 177m ($250.3m) for 2001, but 155m of that was associated with its holding in Creo.

Scitex Digital Print will launch a lower-cost version of its high-speed process colour ink-jet press at Ipex.