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Sector Skills Council ProSkills is to officially launch in November as it moves into new offices and takes on full-time staff.

York Mailing has completed a 12m raft of investment with the commissioning of a new Komori System 38 32pp web at its factory in Elvington, York.

HighWater Designs has developed a B3 metal platesetter that it claims delivers a new level of price performance.

Kall Kwik has launched a range of services called Design to Delivery, in a bid to offer its customers a broader service.

Cambridge Printers has installed two Oc digital presses in its Mercers Row premises in Cambridge.

An as yet unnamed Finnish paper company is planning to invest 136m ($250m) to build a 400,000 tonnes per annum recycled newsprint mill in India.

Cambridge Newspapers has picked up the contract to print <i>City AM</i>, Londons latest free newspaper which launched on Monday.

PrintCity Web Systems Group has revealed the findings of a nine-month study into the impact on the print and paper industry of using larger diameter paper reels.

Print management firm etrinsic is to extend its work with EDF Energy to cover marketing and direct mail print.

The Field Group has blamed difficult trading conditions and growing competition from Eastern Europe for the closure of its Field First carton site in Oldbury, West Midlands.

Johnston Press has reported a dip in contract printing revenues as it gears up to start installing its triple-width presses at Portsmouth and Sheffield.

Printhaus will be the first UK printer to install a press with KBAs innovative no sidelay technology.

Lotus Press in Poole, Dorset has become the first named user of Kodak GCGs violet commercial plate after installing a Highwater Python platesetter.

Wyndeham Press Group has bagged the double with style magazine <i>Wonderland</i>.

<i>The Guardian</i> will become the UKs first full-colour national newspaper and its only Berliner-format title, from Monday, just 13 months after signing press orders.