News

Polestar plans to close its Purnell gravure plant in Somerset.

Inveresk will close its Carrongrove mill in November with the loss of 150 jobs.

Hull-based Harlands Labels has been bought by the Clondalkin Group to support its growth plans in the UK and Europe.

Amicus GPMS has reacted angrily to Polestars plans to close its Purnell gravure site in Bristol by the end of March 2006.

Heidelberg will begin manufacturing presses in China. Chief executive Bernhard Schreier expanded on the firms plans for the Chinese market when he presented the firms end of year results.

US packaging pre-press giant Schawk is to shed around 80 jobs and close two of its sites following the merging of its two UK acquisitions, Winnets and Seven Worldwide.

Adare Carwin has moved its head office to combine marketing and account management and beef up its creative studio with new kit.

The Scanplus Print Group has won an excellence award for its work on Unilever Magazine.

Access Communications is to launch a suite of software products that can be used alongside, or as an alternative to, print management.

The government body in charge of safety in the UK papermaking industry has set out ambitious three-year targets to improve health and safety in the sector.

Paperlinx Europe has merged the individual units of its display products businesses, which serve sign making, screen printing and wide-format digital printing.

Linx Printing Technologies has launched a laser micro-perforating/scoring unit targeted at flexible packaging firms.

Polar is using its InForum 2005 event to highlight a host of innovations, including the first production model of its Drupa concept, the fully automatic Autojog.

Sun Chemical has used Fespa to launch a range of digital ink-jet inks and to reveal its restructured speciality printing inks division.

EFI completed its acquisition of Vutek last week a month ahead of schedule.