News

Kappa Attica will demonstrate the properties of its new heavyweight solid board, Printline, on Heidelbergs Speedmaster CD 74 machines at Ipex by producing desktop mobile phone holders.

SR Communications says its January turnover of 1.8m was the highest monthly sales figure it has achieved in 22 years of business.

Former Colorgraphic sales and marketing director Nick Dixon is poised to return to the industry with a new venture.

Former Nuffield Web Offset managing director Tony Britton has returned to his newspaper roots with a new role at Express Newspapers.

Book group CPI has entered into a partnership with ebrary, a provider of information retrieval and distribution services.

All the production partners are now in place for the official show newspaper at Ipex the <i>PrintWeek</i>-produced <i>Ipex Daily</i>.

Pira has published its <i>UK Printing 2002 </i>report, which it claims provides a "complete picture" of the UK market.

MY Cartons has developed a six-colour printing technique which it claims virtually eliminates the need for spot colours, and could set up a new business unit if demand is strong.

The former finance director of Merlin Colour Printers, Colin Moseley, has been jailed for 16 months after pleading guilty to nine counts of theft, false accounting and deception.

Emap is to keep all eight of its titles printed at St Ives Gillingham within the St Ives group following the proposal to close the plant (<i>PrintWeek</i>, 8 February).

Scottish Media Group (SMG) has started phasing in production at its new printing plant at Cambuslang on the outskirts of Glasgow.

Prince Charles operated an 1844 Albion hand press when he paid a visit to the St Bride Printing Library in London this week (11 March).

Swindon-based Romney Packaging has gone into administrative receivership less than four months after agreeing a company voluntary arrangement (CVA).

Ancient House Press in Ipswich has finalised a deal with KBA for a Rapida 105 SW5 10-colour sheetfed press in the first stage of a three-year, 5m development plan.

The BPIF hopes to boost the industrys cashflow by 60m-70m a year after it lobbied the Inland Revenue about the way machinery is set off against profit in the early years of investment.