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Output slide fails to hamper prices
The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that while output in the print related sector has slumped 3.7% year on year, the prices it is charging for work have grown.
Ink giant is named Xsys Print
The ink firm created by the merger of German BASF Printing Systems and Swedish ANI Printing Inks will be called Xsys Print Solutions, it was announced this week.
Quebecor tipped for Polestar swoop
Speculation is rising in the print and financial sectors that Canadian print giant Quebecor is plotting a takeover of Polestar.
Poor Q1 hits Quebecor's share price
Quebecor Worlds share price has slumped by more than 13% after the Canadian print group reported that first-quarter profits had more than halved year-on-year.
Strikes could spell paper shortages
UK printers and publishers have been warned that widespread industrial action in Finland could lead to a shortage of paper.
Ink facility source of plant fire
The fire at Gwent-based Scandinavian Design broke out in the ink storage facility adjacent to its print plant.
Communisis disposes of Dutch wing
Communisis is to take a near-5m hit on the sale of its Dutch manufacturing business.
Heron loses production on 64pp Lithoman
Wyndeham Heron suffered over a days lost production this week on its 64pp web press due to the failure of part of a motor in the oven.
Sheetfed woes keep MAN Roland in the red
MAN Groups 2005 first quarter order intake got a major boost with the booking of most of the massive News International (NI) deal in the period, but ongoing problems in its sheetfed operations led to...
Welsh wrapping paper printer hit by fire
Fire has broken out at Gwent-based Scandinavian Design, which prints gift wrapping.
PrintWeek gains sister title in Packaging News
Haymarket, the UK's largest privately owned magazine publishing group and publisher of <i>PrintWeek</i>, has confirmed that it is acquiring a portfolio of business publications from Quantum Business...
Merged ANI and BASF ink firm is named Xsys
The ink firm created by the merger of German BASF Printing Systems and Swedish ANI Printing Inks will be called Xsys Print Solutions, it was announced today.
Board giants discuss possible merger
Jefferson Smurfit Group and Kappa Packaging are in preliminary merger talks.
Epson unveils new ink-jet range
Epson has introduced a new range of wide-format printers that use a new ink technology that it claims provides higher quality results for printing and proofing applications.
Print workers among pension protest marchers
Amicus GPMS members, who lost all or part of their pensions through company insolvency, were among the 1,000 members of the union demonstrating in London last Friday (7 May).