News

Ormolu Group reduced its pre-tax losses to 5.3m in 2003, but went further into the red over the course of the year, according to accounts posted this week.

Express Newspapers owner Richard Desmond has said that delivery of newspapers will go more electronic in the future, indicating that he would not follow Rupert Murdochs lead and rebuild his printing...

Polestar chief executive Barry Hibbert is predicting a wholesale change of contract ownership in UK magazine printing.

TJ International has integrated its Heidelberg presses with its i-teba SolPrint Management Information System using JDF.

The GPMU has signed a union recognition agreement at Quebecor World's plant at Corby.

Westdale Printing Group has signed up for a 10-colour Heidelberg Speedmaster 102 just one month after taking delivery of a 12-colour model.

Virgin Retail has handed a multi-million point of sale (PoS) contract to Access Plus, the TripleArc-owned print manager.

Polestar showed visitors around its Sheffield supersite for the first time last week, when it held a "soft launch" for the huge 43,000m2 facility.

Agfa is to close a former Lastra plate production plant in Jacksonville, Texas, with the loss of 200 jobs in a plan to centralise its US production facilities.

Xerox has put continued growth for its digital production division down to the success of its iGen3 and DocuColor 5252 printers.

Leeds College of Technology has appointed Peter Ryder as principal following the retirement of Jim MacWilliams.

EFI exceeded its restated earnings expectations for the third quarter and is on track with growth in its professional printing products.

Label and overprinting specialist Videojet has linked up with Hewlett Packard to produce a variable printer using thermal inks.

Creo is facing a boardroom coup led by long-term investor Goodwood and print turnaround specialist Robert Burton.

MY Holdings chief executive John Monks carried out one of his last formal duties before his retirement by re-opening the Portsmouth Healthcare division plant.