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In a bid to keep up with recent contract wins Polestar has bought a 64pp Heidelberg Sunday 4000 web press as part of a 10m investment in its Colchester plant.

Heidelberg's preliminary results for the quarter ending 31 June show a leap of 66% in orders on the same time last year.

The latest round of high profile sales staff to leave Howard Smith Paper have followed other senior management to rival Premier Paper.

Diamond Print Services has recruited Muller Martini UK's adhesive binding expert Nick Dingwall to head its new case-binding operation.

GPMU members at St Ives Westerham have voted "overwhelmingly in favour" of industrial action.

Tony Kington, BASF Printing Systems sales and marketing director for print media, has left the company by mutual consent.

The new owner of Scottish printer Academy Press is set to invest in new digital equipment in a bid to break into the wide-format market.

Alderson Brothers Print Group has taken delivery of the UKs first 12-colour Mitsubishi and is planning a 3m-4m investment in a new factory.

Astron has acquired Experians print and mail division in Nottingham and is in negotiations over the future of its 109 employees.

German CTCP specialist basysPrint has been saved by Punch International in a deal worth 3.3m (E5m).

Bloomsbury, the UK publisher of the Harry Potter books, has printed the paperback editions of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix on part-recycled paper, a first for a UK book publisher.

DaimlerChrysler Services has hired Prontaprint, Milton Keynes to produce its human resource and marketing material.

Leicestershire-based large-format specialist Data Image has increased its print capacity by 50-60% after installing a Vutek PressVu, its first flatbed UV curing ink-jet press.

Electronic Solutions is repositioning and rebranding in response to changes in the market and parent agency BBDO.

Exponential-e has created a high-speed ad delivery internet connection that is to replace ISDN and WAM!NET at News Stream.