News

The Polestar Anglia mini-web printing business in Diss, Norfolk, is to close with potential job losses for 56 staff.

Polestar has revealed more details of its on-going plan to transform its Leeds-based Petty facility into a super-plant with the largest 64pp press capacity in Europe.

Leo Quinn is to take over at the helm of security printer De La Rue when Ian Much retires at the end of May.

McDonalds Restaurants has handed its printed forms and stationery contract to print management firm image2office.

RealTimeImage is expanding the scope of RealTimeProof beyond remote proofing to what it terms approval management with version 5, which will be launched at Drupa.

Agfa is likely to sidestep the annual Ifra newspaper show in October in favour of exhibiting at Drupa in May.

Graphic arts industry body Picon will have 44 companies exhibiting under its banner at this years Drupa.

Trinity Mirror is looking to reduce its 12 print sites further following last weeks announcement that 14 jobs would go at its Aspley plant when production of the <i>Huddersfield Examiner</i> relocates...

UPMs Caledonian paper mill has been certified to dual environmental Chain of Custody standards.

Packaging group British Polythene Industries (BPI) has posted strong preliminary results for the year ended December 2003.

Haven Colourprint UK has formed from the remnants of Haven Colourprint, which went into voluntary liquidation in January this year.

Presstek has overcome a drop in the supply of its imaging head technology to Heidelbergs Quickmaster DI press to record an overall growth in revenue for 2003.

Charterhouse, the Hatfield-based print management company, has won a major contract worth 5m per annum to handle all the direct marketing material for Powergen.

Cradley, the West Midlands-based web offset printer, has appointed Ross Cheshire as finance director with effect from 15 March.

The directors of CGI Group have staged a management buyout from US group ADP Graphic Communications.