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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.

Kodak Polychrome Graphics will no longer sell Xerox DocuColors after the two firms ended their reseller agreement.

PDF pioneer Jon Bessant has joined magazine printers Pensord in Blackwood, Wales from rivals Stephens & George in Merthyr Tydfil.

International Greetings has posted half-year results described as excellent by chairman John Elfed Jones.

The end of the downturn is nigh, according to outdoor advertising specialist Maiden.

Book printing legend and pioneer of short-run production Antony Rowe has died of cancer aged 79.