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Vio has bought file transfer and digital asset management workflow firm Portland PMS as part of its expansion plans.

Heidelberg chief executive Bernhard Schreier reaffirmed the groups commitment to its three-pronged focus on offset, digital and postpress at the groups AGM last Friday.

Operating profits in Oakhill Groups speciality print division leapt 89% despite a fall in sales for the six months to 30 June.

Creo is buying a plate manufacturer and has begun selling a plate based on its own technology.

Howitts self-imposed deadline to release a further statement regarding its future plans, including the Equator gravure project, has passed without further word from the company.

HH Associates has secured another major print management contract, this time for Brittany Ferries brochure.

International Paper (IP) plans to cut around 3,000 jobs, or 3.5% of its workforce, as part of a continuing cost-cutting programme.

UPM-Kymmene has confirmed plans to increase the price of its publication papers by 30 per tonne, and other manufacturers are set to follow suit.

Heidelberg is in talks with Goss International about the future of its web press operations.

Agfa has appointed a new management team at its Graphic Systems division, and is rolling out a programme to promote the use of print.

MCSi seems set to exit the market in its current guise.

Several more pulp producers are following Canfor and Sdra Cells lead in announcing pulp price rises with effect from this month (<i>PrintWeek</i>, 28 August).

Atlas Print & Communications, which was born from the demise of Clarendon House Group last year, is facing a winding-up petition from Ice Paper.

Electronics For Imaging is on the hunt for further acquisitions following its 13m ($21m) bid for T/R Systems.

Caslon has launched an automatic foiling machine for digital printers that eliminates the need for dies.