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Polestar has changed its capital structure in a move that will allow the group to pay its first dividend since its inception in 1998.

Assets of the collapsed UK paper mill Aylesford Newsprint will be sold via online auction next month, according to consultancy firm Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH), which has been appointed to carry out...

Wood Richardson has invested in a new Xerox Versant 2100 digital printer, which will enable it to meet growing demand for fast-turnaround, short-run, high-quality work.

Webmart chief executive Simon Biltcliffe has completed the Marathon des Sables, a six-day ultra-marathon in the Sahara desert billed as the "toughest race on Earth".

DS Smith is set to become the world's first user of the HP T1100 wide-web digital preprint engine for the corrugated packaging industry.

Unite has announced an escalation in its industrial dispute with Smurfit Kappa over the dismissal of two union stewards at the group's Northampton corrugated packaging facility.

EFI has unveiled the latest version of its Digital Storefront web-to-print software, which includes a new Enterprise Model to enable printers to better support clients such as franchise owners.

One paper manufacturer has already set aside a multimillion-pound provision to cover its likely bad debt with Paperlinx UK.

Agfa’s new flatbed and roll-to-roll wide-format UV inkjet printers, the Jeti Mira and Jeti Tauro, will have their European debuts at Fespa 2015 in Cologne next month.

PrintWeek understands that two bids have been tabled for the Paperlinx UK businesses in administration with Deloitte and a deal to salvage something from the operations could be imminent.

New legislation for England and Wales aimed at tackling the illegal use of specialist printing equipment has come into force.

A restructure of CPI Group’s UK operations has resulted in the departure of two senior executives and two high-profile returnees to the book printer’s revamped management team.

Merseyside trade finisher Thomas Loughlin (Liverpool) has invested in two Horizon VAC-1000 collating towers, which it hopes will continue its 8% year-on-year growth.

Paperlinx has requested that its shares be suspended for a further eight days, until 16 April, while it attempts to deal with the knock-on effects of events in the UK on its European operations.

Watermill Press has installed 750 solar panels covering almost the entire 3000sqm roof of its premises, in what it believes is the biggest solar panel scheme in Bradford.