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KUBE has secured the exclusive UK rights to sell exhibition stands and pop-ups from Swedish manufacturer Maxibit.

RR Donnelleys superplant on Flaxby Moor has picked up the contract to print three new editions of Yells <i>Business Pages</i> directory.

Dynamic Digital Imaging in Norwich has become the first UK firm to install Ocs Arizona 500 wide-format outdoor ink-jet printer.

Kodak is to team up with IBM on a system for storing and managing digital medical images.

Prontaprint! has installed more than 40 new Xerox machines across its UK franchisee network over the past year in response to demand for low-volume quick turnaround job processing.

The CIP4 organisation is to launch an online Job Description Format Expert Certificate Programme next year, and will also publish a quarterly newsletter to promote JDF and its future developments.

PDF pioneer Jon Bessant has joined magazine printer Pensord in Blackwood, Wales, from rivals Stephens & George (S&G) in Merthyr Tydfil.

Esko-Graphics is boosting its marketing activities and has appointed Jef Stoffels as its new corporate communications manager.

The Institutes of Paper, Printing and Publishing are to merge, to form IP3, bringing together 2,000 members across the three organisations.

Maximum Impacts Bill Davis has completed this years Italian Job rally, playing a part in raising more than 100,000 for charity in the process.

Polestar is offering its newspaper and magazine publishing clients a green alternative to polywrap.

DS Smith has announced the closure of its corrugated packaging plant in Govan.

Eight ex-Robor Cartons employees plan to appeal against their dismissal, which happened after they had won an employment tribunal case against the company for unlawful deduction of wages...

API Group has announced disappointing results after SARS and the war in Iraq hit sales of luxury goods and tobacco, hindering its ability to make the progress that was predicted.

The Perivan Group has been acquired from its administrators in an MBO carried out by three former members of its sales team with the support of venture capitalists.