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Apsley Paper Trail has been awarded 500,000 for a project to divert 10,000 tonnes of paper waste per year from landfill.

The lockouts at Finnish paper mills have been extended by another two weeks, until the end of June, with supplies to paper merchants already being disrupted.

Guardian Print Centre is to install the UKs first Cyclone Visual Proofers from Colorbus, following a 35,000 deal struck at Newstec last week.

Kingfisher Press is to install Fujifilms 1,000th violet CTP system.

Oc has launched its high-end production printer, the VarioPrint 5140 onto the market.

The collapse of Barnoldswicks CP3i will result in a double-decker Komori super perfector press being sold as a used machine for the first time in the UK.

RR Donnelley has completed a 546m ($1bn) debt offering to fund its acquisition of Astron.

Joe Fulbrook put pedal to the metal last week to win the Volkswagen Racing Cup.

Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) is to build a greenfield flexo print plant on the outskirts of Didcot as part of its 100m move to full-colour newspapers.

Polestar has moved quickly to appoint a new managing director for its Colchester plant Michael Tame started at the company this week.

Adare has sold envelope supplier division Great Northern Envelopes (GNE) to a management buyout team.

Vutek has used Fespa to launch its largest flatbed printer to date, the PressVu UV 320/400.

Pioneering ink-jet press developer Inca has been snapped up by Screen.

Exhibition organiser IIR, the owner of Digital Print World, Newstec, Flexo and Northprint and the organiser of Ipex, has been sold to its rival T&F Informa for 768m.

Fespa is to launch a new exhibition aimed at the European digital print market next year.