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J&G Environmental received its Queens Award for Enterprise at a ceremony at its plant at Blandford Forum, Dorset, last Friday (4 July).

Jarrold Printing in Norwich has retained the contract to print Maplin Electronics 1,200pp catalogue for the next two years.

Surepaks winding-up petition against Newey Print was granted last week at the High Courts of Justice in London.

Oc announced further job cuts as it released its second quarter results, which saw profits and revenues fall.

MAN Rolands worldwide OEM agreement with Xeikon is crumbling and looks likely to be over by the end of this year.

Pulpex is seeking alternative hosting arrangements after the OM London Exchange said it would terminate its contract by the end of the year.

Polestar has revealed plans to transform its Petty plant in Leeds into the largest 64pp press operation in Europe with unprecedented firepower.

Premier Paper is calling for entries for its new showcase awards, The Collection 2003, which will reward the best use of Premier-supplied brands.

Xeikons owner Punch International plans to buy Esko-Graphics digital printing products department in a move that it believes will establish the worlds leading front-end group for production colour...

Carbonless paper pioneer Lowell Schleicher, whose work with the encapsulation process led to the evolution of carbonless paper, has died, aged 78.

Stora Enso expects its operating profit for the second quarter of 2003 to be 72m, half of the first quarters figure, mainly due to continuing weak economic conditions.

Heidelberg UK says that last year it outperformed many of the groups other national operations, where results were hamstrung by weak economic conditions.

Ultrachem has bought fellow pre-press and pressroom consumables supplier Keane Graphic Products for an undisclosed sum.

Finance and paper companies feature prominently on a CVA proposal from East Sussex commercial printer VIP Print.

Xaar chief executive Jan Fineman has resigned as the firm said it would report greater losses in the first half of the year than predicted.