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Polestar has announced plans to close its Watford web offset plant.

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

Global consumer packaging group Rexam has appointed Stefan Angwald as chief executive to succeed Rolf Brjesson.

Stehlin Hostag Ink UK has opened its southern headquarters from which it intends to increase the number of its customers in the region by a third.

Creo has cut its R&D and marketing budgets and instigated a pay freeze across the board for the next six months in a bid to control its cost structure.

Goss Graphic Systems (GGS) hopes to avert further industrial action after protests by production workers at its Preston plant.

Fujifilms Peterborough-based manufacturing division, Fujifilm Electronic Imaging, has been named as most improved manufacturing plant in awards run by <i>PrintWeek</i>s sister title <i>Management...

<i>PrintWeek</i>s newly crowned Finishing Company of the Year was among the three businesses in the print sector to make the Inner City 100 list of the fastest growing inner city enterprises in the...

A new litho print company, Prometheus Press, is being set up in Tonbridge, Kent with a 1.3m investment.

Jennings DAR, the Barnsley-based pre-press firm, has opened an offshore site in Sri Lanka in a joint venture with one of the islands biggest printers.

Advertising delivery software company Quickcut has amalgamated its global operations and made a series of management changes.

Garden House Press (GHP) in Perivale, West London, has ordered the UKs first Screen PlateRite 8800 B1 thermal platesetter.

The amount of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified paper being produced in Europe has quadrupled since the beginning of 2003, according to figures released by WWF.

Stora Enso has approved a plan to restructure the ownership of its forestlands in Sweden.

Polestar has printed the biggest-ever issue of the <i>Radio Times</i> Christmas edition, which went on sale this week.