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This years PPA Magazine Production Conference will feature a raft of developments for the pass4press initiative.

Quebecor Worlds UK operation has held its margins but overall the group suffered from weak advertising spending and overcapacity in the third quarter.

Sdra Cell has announced price increases for both of its main pulp products, bleached softwood and hardwood kraft pulp, from 1 November.

William Clowes, the Beccles-based book printer, is keen to expand its presence in the market for mass produced books.

Stora Enso is to develop a premium Machine Finished (MF) magazine paper grade as part of a 37m (e53m) investment to upgrade PM2 at Summa in Finland.

4DM Group, the Kettering-based direct mail house, has added three new recruits to its sales team following an increase in capacity.

The BPIF and Printers Charitable Corporation have formally launched a new annual Educational Scholarship scheme offering financial help for young people looking to make a career in print.

International Paper (IP) and M-real have both suffered in the third quarter.

Cond Nast has confirmed that the UK edition of <i>Glamour</i> will be printed in Germany by Maul-Belser from its March 2004 issue, as predicted by <i>PrintWeek</i> (<i>PrintWeek</i>, 23 October).

Roberts Mart, the plastic and paper packaging printer in Leeds, is moving to a new purpose-built factory.

Visitors to Heidelbergs Open House at its UK headquarters in Brentford had the chance to see its latest B3 press, the Printmaster 52, which paid a fleeting visit to the UK.

Polestar is set to merge its Spanish printing operations with those of Grupo Prisa, the countrys biggest media company, to form a new joint-venture business.

Claverley, the newspaper publishing and print group that owns the <i>Shropshire Star</i> and Precision Colour Printing, wants to buy Guiton Group, which publishes the <i>Jersey Evening Post</i> and...

Scorpio Print Finishings new management team has extended the Pudsey firms offering with a 200,000 investment in an Autobond thermal laminator.

Polestar, St Ives and Stora Enso are among the founding members of a new PPA initiative that aims to give key suppliers to the magazine publishing sector a greater insight into the major issues facing...