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Personalisation specialist Lorien Unique is to expand its workforce by a quarter ahead of a move to new premises and a major investment in finishing kit.

Newcastle-based digital house Pre-Press Digital (PPD) is to install a second Encad NovaJet 1000i in the next month.

Glasgow-based commercial printer Hill & Hay has invested in its first Heidelberg kit with a Stahlfolder KH66.

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Gomer Press, the Welsh printer and publisher, has installed a Wohlenberg Golf perfect binder at its new factory in Llandysul, Ceredigion.

European paper manufacturers have been warned that demand is expected to fall in early 2005, and that the industry will continue to be affected by new capacity in China next year.

Italian paper manufacturer Favinis Meerssen mill has gained Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification, the second mill in the group to achieve the accreditation.

BemroseBooth has won the contract to print pre-paid public transport tickets for Merseyside.

OneVision has launched two software packages aiming to streamline production efficiency and offer automated conversion between different file formats.

HM Customs and Excise is trying to raise printers awareness of the Chancellors VAT Flat Rate Scheme (FRS).

Guardian Media Group (GMG) could pull out of West Ferry and print at contract printer Newsfax when it switches to the mid-size Berliner format in 2006.

Speciality papermaker James Cropper has been boosted by its interim results, which show an increase in turnover and pre-tax profits.

KBA is back in the black for the first time in two years, with a pre-tax profit for Q3 of 6.2m (Euro 8.8m).

Delta Packaging has invested 1.6m on its Chinese joint-venture company Huabei Delta Print and Packaging three months after it won Nokia as a client.

Wyndehams efficiency drive and focus on cross-selling its group offering is paying off, and the firm has posted improved half-year results.