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The economic downturn and reduction in advertising has hit third quarter results at America group Applied Graphics Technologies (AGT).

Mondi Packaging is to close four UK plants with the loss of 270 jobs.

Jarrold Printing managing director William Mills is leaving the firm at the end of the year after nine years in charge

Polestar is poised to embark on a mammoth 8m spend on CTP across all its operations

The UK printing industry could lose almost 11,000 jobs next year, with over 300 companies set to be in serious financial trouble, according to a new report

Polestar and St Ives have been hit after IPC announced the closure of six under-performing titles as part of an on-going review of its portfolio

Norwegian-based metal packaging company Skanem Industries plans to buy SE Labels and hopes to complete a deal before the end of the year

Administrators at Sheffield-based packaging printer Greenup & Thompson have decided to close the business with the loss of 60 jobs

GPMU deputy general secretary Tony Burke has welcomed the governments new employment bill

Hewlett-Packard says its imaging and printing division helped it to stay in the black for the fourth quarter

Heidelbergs half-year sales have risen by just under 5% on last year, despite the effects of September 11 and the economic downturn

Openshaw has extended its range of platesetters by signing up to sell Screens PlateRite range of B2 and B1 thermal machines

Bousfield has returned to the private sector on a strong financial footing after parent company Amberley sold it to a private investment firm and wrote off 11.5m of debt

Wace Corporate Print in Swindon is in talks with its 106 staff and the GPMU about proposed redundancies

A one-day conference on best practice in digital artwork preparation and pre-press has been organised by the Institute of Packaging and the Institute of Printing