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Weyerhaeuser CEO wins award
Weyerhaeuser chairman, president and chief executive Steven Rogel has been chosen as Global CEO of the year by members of the financial sector who follow the paper and forest products sector
Holmen Paper plans to ride out reduction in orders
Holmen Paper is to ride out a drop in orders with a tough decision not to halt production
Paper and board hit an all-time record
European paper and board production rose to over 90m tonnes in 200, a 5.6% increase on 1999 and an all-time record, according to statistics from the Confederation of European Paper Industries
The Stationery Office sees off rivals for 10m contract
The Stationery Office has won a fiercely competitive print re-tender worth around 10m and is celebrating its fifth anniversary as a private firm
Beacon gains UK green first
The Beacon Press has become the first UK printer to use paper with a global eco-friendly stamp
Fuji suffers loss of another salesman
David Wilson, the head of Fujifilms electronics sales team, has left the firm
Dudley Stationery in administration
PricewaterhouseCoopers has made 15% of Dudley Stationerys staff redundant after being appointed as administrator
ControlP sells off Printbynet
ControlP has sold its online print procurement arm, Printbynet, for an undisclosed sum to a team headed by Paul Steadman
Chromoworks likely to cut workforce
Polestar is halfway through a 30-day consultation period with the GPMU after proposing to cut a quarter of the 129-strong shopfloor workforce at its Chromoworks plant in Nottingham
SFO investigation at security printer
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is investigating allegations of insider dealing through information leaked from a security printer
PPS takes on stitching giants
MAN Roland UK agent Pershke Price Service (PPS) is taking on a 12,000-per-hour stitching line in a bid to challenge the dominance of Muller Martini and Heidelberg
4DM invests in Kettering plant
Direct mail group 4DM has invested over 1m in expanding its premises and facilities at its Kettering HQ
Trinity opts for Goss
Trinity Mirror has ordered a Goss Colorliner 70 press as part of a 17m drive to make its regional newspaper division the "biggest and best" in the industry
Alchemy Partners looks at Photobition purchase
Venture capitalist Alchemy Partners, the company that tried unsuccessfully to take over the Rover Group last year, has emerged as a potential purchaser of troubled graphics group Photobition
Printers feeling more positive says Directions
A number of printers are "bucking the general trend of despondency", according to the latest BPIF <i>Directions </i>survey