News

MY Cartons is to close its Leicester site after a review of its short-run operations.

The first two printers to benefit from Premier Paper and Vision in Prints (ViP) Premier Snapshot initiative, aimed at improving print firms performance, will be assessed next week.

Service Graphics (SG) has launched a conferences division, as part of the firms continued organic growth.

Graphoprint owner Graham Ostler is fighting back after the devastating fire at the company, and has placed a multi-million pound order for three new Goss webs.

Highly publicised takeover talks at packaging group API Group have failed to come to fruition, leading to an 18% fall in the firm's share price.

Private equity firms Charterhouse and Candover have been named as potential buyers of Astron.

Creo president Judy Hess will be responsible for Kodaks CTP, workflow and proofing products once Kodaks acquisition of Creo goes through.

Precision Colour Printing (PCP) has appointed Alex Evans as managing director, following the retirement of Paul Liggins.

Interim profits at St Ives are up 14% thanks to an initial contribution from latest acquisition SP Group and the effects of the groups rationalisation and efficiency measures.

Sherwood Press has invested 3m in new equipment as it simultaneously expands and consolidates.

London is certain to get a new free afternoon paper after the Office of Fair Trading approved plans for its distribution on the Underground.

Goss is to add fully-automatic plate changing to the demo model of its Flexible Printing System (FPS) newspaper press by July, with semi-automatic plate changing going live next month.

Strong sheetfed and gravure sales helped KBA move back into the black in 2004, but profits are still not satisfactory, according to chief executive Albrecht Bolza-Schnemann.

EFI has boosted its efforts to grow the business through acquisitions with a new appointment.

Field First has developed a range of shelf ready packaging (SRP) products, designed to simplify the supply chain.