News

Pyramid Printers has bought its first MAN Roland R305 with double perfector in a deal worth over 500,000.

Quark is relaunching its UK division, several years after the firm scaled back its operations here.

Plans by the Royal Mail to shake up postal prices based on size as well as weight have been dubbed a tax on creativity by the DM sector.

Sheffield is looking increasingly likely to be Polestars favoured site for its greenfield gravure site, while Liverpool has emerged as a possible choice for Arvatos proposed UK gravure plant.

The Scottish Police College has beefed up its printing capacity with two Xerox DocuColor 6060 presses.

Curtis Fine Papers is talking with union officials about the possible closure of its Dalmore mill near Edinburgh, which could lead to 127 redundancies.

UPM has reported a 10% increase in paper deliveries but continuing price pressure for the first quarter of 2004 means profitability remains weak.

Sandra Ward is to replace Rod Willett as the executive director of Cambridge Printing, the print arm of Cambridge University Press.

On the eve of Drupa 2004, the biggest single order placed at the last event remains only partly fulfilled.

Wyndeham expects its results for the year ending 31 March to be at the top end of expectations.

Long-standing Polestar key account director Alan Outlaw is to leave the group after a 30-year career with Watmoughs and Polestar.

The printing industrys four major trade bodies have launched the first-ever industry-wide consultation on the sectors future direction.

EFI chief financial officer Joe Cutts has been appointed as chief operating officer too.

Tributes have poured in for Mitsubishi Lithographic Presses managing director Roy Jenkinson, who died this week after a long battle against cancer. He was 56.

Industry sources have given strong indications that the proposed Sheffield site for Polestars greenfield gravure plant will emerge as the favoured choice.