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News International (NI) has confirmed the details of its long awaited press investment plan, which includes a 600m spend and a move away from Wapping to the home counties.

A unit of the former Heidelberg Sunday web was shown with a Goss badge for the first time at GraphExpo this week.

The US Army displayed a "Deployable Print Production Center" that had been in operation in Baghdad at GraphExpo.

Wyndeham has won the contract for Reveal, the new womens weekly from NatMags that launches this week.

KPG has weighed into the growing violet plate market, but has simultaneously reaffirmed its belief that thermal is here to stay.

Xant launched what it claimed was the worlds fastest metal platesetter at Chicagos Graph Expo.

Xerox has almost doubled the speed of its highlight colour printing capability with a new machine, previewed at GraphExpo in Chicago this week.

Polestar has been handed the pre-press area of its Sheffield superplant from development partner Gazeley and will begin installing equipment next week.

Williams Lea has acquired US-based Bowne Business Solutions (BBS), its long-term joint venture partner, in a 100m ($180m) deal.

A liquidator has been appointed to White Productions following its winding-up by Perivan Group administrator, Begbies Traynor.

The BPIF has slammed a full-page article published in The Guardian which claimed that UK Print plc was in terminal decline.

News International (NI), the owner of Wapping, is planning to build a print plant on a 40-acre, 21m site on a business park in Hertfordshire.

Polestar has allocated 10m from its True North investment programme to a new finishing and mailing facility at Polestar Chantry in Wakefield.

Tullis Russells Cypher paper was used for the national launch of The Big Draw 2004 campaign, held in London on 26 September.

Compilation of the industrys biggest survey of business performance, the PrintWeek Top 500, is underway.