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Brewster acquires JP divisions

Jarvis Porter will focus solely on labels and healthcare packaging after selling its dripmat and promotional print wing to former chief executive Richard Brewster

MCSi unveils plate technology plans

MCSi plans to introduce a swathe of new plate technologies to drive business forward

DuPont fills imaging unit role

DuPont has appointed Alan Walsh to head its new Imaging Technologies business unit in the UK

Pharmecutical Marketing shifts to PDF

<i>Pharmaceutical Marketing </i> has taken all its pre-press work in-house and is now only supplying PDFs to its printer, The Friary Press in Dorchester

ScenicSoft set to support JDF via UpFront 1.5

ScenicSoft has announced its first two products to support the Job Definition Format

Adobe CPSI to add PDF 1.4 next year

Workflow developers hope to be using the latest version of Adobes CPSI RIP technology to support PDF 1.4 functions, including transparencies, by early next year

Gretag Pro defies main group losses

Gretags professional imaging division proved to be its only bright spot as the Swiss group announced plummeting sales and a heavy loss for the first six months of 2001

HP earnings for Q3 plummet

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has reported a dramatic fall in net earnings for the third quarter due to the global economic downturn

Aspire installs Roland Hi-Fi for short-run Hexachrome

Aspire Print and Repro, the Hertfordshire-based firm that specialises in Hexachrome printing, has installed a Roland Hi-Fi Jet Pro FJ-500 to produce six-colour short-run large-format digital print

International Paper approached for Scottish mill

International Paper is being touted as one of the firms lined up to run the 418m Scottish pulp mill project

Weyerhaeuser continues hunt for Willamette

The 4.8bn battle for Willamette continues, with Weyerhaeuser extending its offer for all of Willamettes outstanding stock until midnight on 14 September

Lyonnais predicts 25% pulp price fall

UPM-Kymmenes acquisition of Haindl is set to fail, and the price of pulp could fall by a further 25% in 2002

Stora approves 317m overhaul at Langerbrugge

Stora Ensos board has approved a 317m asset improvement programme for its Langerbrugge mill in Belgium

Ekman UK wins agency deal for Fabriano paper

Ekman UK has become the exclusive UK and Eire sales agent for Italian paper producer Fabriano

PaperCom to issue green energy plan

PaperCom Europe will issue a report in the coming months outlining the next step for the sustainability blueprint for the industry