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Compac Print, part of the CMCS Group of companies, has closed due to "declining orders" with more than 50 redundancies.

Fulmar chief executive Mike Taylor has predicted that the demise of printing companies will escalate in the medium term.

The management of John Hampden Packaging has completed a secondary MBO of the 12m-turnover textile packaging manufacturer.

DuPont has launched iCertification, which it claims is the first colour-validated remote proofing system.

Astron chief executive David Mitchell says the print management group is breaking new ground with the development of an online point-of-sale (PoS) distribution system for Marks & Spencer.

The BPIF and GPMU began the first of a planned three days of talks over this years national wage agreement this week.

Picon chief executive John Brazier has welcomed the governments proposal for vocational GCSEs.

KBA and Presstek have struck an OEM agreement enabling the German manufacturer to sell its 46 Karat DI press in the UK.

GreenShires will open a training centre for clients and suppliers at its Leicester site later this month.

Print outsourcing is low on most companies agendas, according to a national survey by Alistair McIntosh, the West Yorkshire-based print management firm.

The union representing the 500 workers at the Ecusta paper plant in North Carolina has said workers there have no "faith" in its owner, Melton Medes Group chairman Nathu Ram Puri.

Weak demand for newsprint and magazine paper during the second half of the year and a downturn in the fourth quarter have failed to derail Holmen Paper.

Two preferred bidders have emerged for Xeikons colour business: MAN Roland and a joint bid from Yam International and Alpha Capital.

Toppan Printing has invested a further 17.5m ($25m) in E Ink as the companies expand their partnership to make electronic paper commercially available.

Pressdata Repro and Silver Line Graphics have both ceased trading and been placed into receivership after suffering on-going trading losses over the past year.