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The GPMU is to ballot its 120,000 members to get their backing for formal merger negotiations with the UKs second largest union Amicus on the recommendation of general secretary Tony Dubbins.

Prinect, Heidelbergs end-to-end workflow and job management brand will take centre stage for the firm at Drupa.

Holmens board of directors has approved investments of just over 40m (Skr500m) in the groups newsprint and paperboard mills, including Workington in the UK.

HP Indigo will be showing its long-awaited B2 digital press at Drupa, but it has still yet to commit on when it will become commercially available.

Pims has installed its second iGen3 and is already running it 24 hours on the back of the first machines success.

Johnston Press has said that the regional advertising market has been stronger in the second half of the year than predicted, although chief executive Tim Bowdler stopped short of declaring a...

Polestar is to invest 100m in a new greenfield gravure printing facility and the wholesale re-equipping of the groups binderies.

Polestar plans to close its Watford web offset plant by next summer. It announced the decision last Thursday (11 December) and has begun consulting with the workforce and unions.

The BPIF has welcomed Chancellor Gordon Browns pre-budget report, which it said was business friendly and contained sensible measures that will be of potential benefit to printers.

The Printing Education Forum (PEF) is hoping to put forward a printing industry team for the global Skills Olympics competition in Helsinki in 2005.

Trevor Gee will be joining William Clowes as general manager of manufacturing in the New Year to oversee the successful transition to the companys purpose built print site.

UK book printing has received a huge boost from the BBCs Big Read project, which concluded on Saturday with JRR Tolkiens <I>The Lord of the Rings</I> being crowned Britains favourite book.

Stewarts has bought some of the stationery assets of rival Waterston Mackenzie Storrie after the company was placed into administrative receivership with Kroll.

Stora Enso has given the green light for investments totalling 461m (e661m) for the construction of a 420,000 tonnes per annum uncoated magazine paper machine.

A Thomson Litho employee has been arrested in Germany on fake euro charges.