News

Polestar has secured a one-year extension to its contract with mail order company Dream Direct.

DIY giant Homebase has rolled-out new look point of sale (PoS) material produced by bezier.

Klippan is to close its Mlndal mill and transfer production to two other mills, improving capacity utilisation and profitability for the Swedish paper company.

UPM will focus on improving profitability in 2005 and plans to increase its market share, possibly through acquisitions.

Esko-Graphics has unveiled an autofeed option for its i-XL Kongsberg die-cutting tables, describing it as the missing link in the i-XLs evolution from a sample maker to short-run production machine.

Capital Print Finishing has been sold to Charta Group Holdings.Managing director Gerry McDowell decided to sell the Greenwich-based trade finishing house and to take early retirement.

Autobond has launched a sub-65,000 B1 version of its Mini thermal sheet laminator range, which was launched at Drupa last year.

Creos Darwin variable information authoring tool for Adobe InDesign will be shown for the first time in Europe on the Litho Supplies stand at Northprint.

Xerox has produced Pantone digital chip books for its iGen3 and DocuColor 8000 digital colour presses, when used with its own DocuSP workflow.

Inca Digital has launched its first foray into the competitive mid-market flatbed ink-jet sector with the four-colour Spyder 320, a larger version of last years Spyder.

Service Business Forms has installed a second Nipson 7000 digital printing press, to deal with its increasing levels of direct mail work.

B&P Lightbrigade is set to launch a range of flatbed UV-cured ink-jet printers at Sign UK at a dramatically lower price point than the competition.

East London-based 3D Digital has completed a 60,000 run of personalised horoscopes and added five staff members after installing a second Xerox DocuColor iGen3.

The Waste Resources Action Programme (WRAP) is funding a project that will examine new uses for the UKs 1m tonnes of paper mill sludge.

Impact Print & Design has installed a Mitsubishi Diamond 1G, rounding off its 12-month 1m investment programme.