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Sun Chemical UK hopes to double its market share in the narrow web sector with the launch of a dedicated division built around a range of inks called Onyx.

ScotPrint has been cancelled after its organiser, Trade Events, said it had failed to attract the critical mass needed for a successful event.

Edotech has won the contract to manage, print and fulfil customer communications for insurance company Standard Life.

The BPIF, NCS Integrated Solutions and Xerox have teamed up to organise a series of free seminars to promote the benefits of digital printing.

Security print specialist BemroseBooth is partnering Philips Semiconductors, a division of Royal Philips Electronics, to produce low-cost contactless tickets for public transport.

Swedish forestry group Sdra has more than trebled its pre-tax profits for the first half of the year.

William Clowes has completed the sale of its 100-year-old site to Tesco and has appointed former BPC chief executive John Holloran as non-executive chairman.

Howitt has sold its Offshore sheetfed operation in the Channel Islands to an MBO team.

GPMU members at Trinity Mirrors administrative site in Glasgow have voted for industrial action if Daily Record & Sunday Mail jobs are transferred to Watford.

Buhrmann says its 21m of cost reductions so far this year are ahead of schedule, but it plans to take more action across its paper merchanting divisions before theyre sold to PaperlinX

Pindars main Eastfield site in Scarborough has a new managing director.

James Cropper, the Kendal-based specialist papermaker, has been fined 20,000 by Kendal Magistrates after the death of an employee last year.

Applied Graphics Technologies, the owner of Seven, has been bought by an American finance firm.

Amcor Flexibles Extrusion (UK) could be close to a settlement with the GMB union after two days of strike action last week over pay.

The Dot Factory, a Manchester digital print, repro and design house, has ordered the UKs first Creo Veris digital contract proofer because its beta testing is going so well.