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Polestar has made a third of the bindery staff redundant at Watmoughs in Bradford in a move that was marred by an alleged assault at a GPMU chapel meeting to discuss the groups proposals

Wolverhampton printer William Gibbons & Sons has been named as one of the fastest profit growers in Britain

The majority of Duncan Web Offsets 200 employees have been made redundant after the firms sites, in Tovil and Parkwood, were closed by its receiver

Inveresk non-executive director Brian MacDonald has resigned from the board to focus on his other interests outside the industry

Former Polestar director Adrian Clark has joined IT company Technique Business Systems as sales and marketing director

Former Arjo Wiggins chairman Ken Minton has joined Inveresk as executive chairman and is undertaking a review to determine how best to turn around the companys fortunes

The Paper Federation of Great Britain reported a record annual output for the UK sector in its industry figures for 2000

Dantex has been appointed to sell a RIP and workflow system designed specifically for label production in the UK

MAN Roland has claimed a world first at the TPG exhibition in Paris this week by linking a DICOpack digital press to a laser cutting device

Xerox has unveiled its DocuPrint 500 CF, the first in a family of continuous-feed high-speed black-and-white digital printers that the company plans to introduce to the UK this year

Heidelberg will base its future pre-press workflow products entirely on PDF

The London College of Printing is reinventing itself with "digital media and digital print" at its heart, according to head of college Dr Will Bridge

Newsquest is installing Autologic PDF-based digital workflow and CTP at its new print centre at Wingates, near Bolton

NUR Macroprinters is to cut 70 jobs worldwide, 14% of its total workforce, to reduce costs

Oc has signed its largest single outsourcing contract with Rolls-Royce, worth 65m over 10 years