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Chris Fewings, Heidelberg UKs post-press marketing manager, is retiring at the end of the year after 26 years with the company.

Carter Litho will mark its 30th anniversary by making a major change of press supplier from Heidelberg to Komori.

Scottish papermaker Inveresk is seeking urgent re-capitalisation and re-financing following breaches of its banking covenants with the Royal Bank of Scotland.

Paper producers should not raise prices as dramatically as they have done in the past when the market experiences an upturn, according to IPC Media/Time Warner manufacturing director Jasper Scott.

Ipex 2006 will take place less than six weeks after the Imprinta exhibition in Dsseldorf.

Pira is poised to launch instalbase, an online database of digital, sheetfed and heatset web offset press installations throughout Europe.

KBA has named the successor to president Reinhart Siewert when he retires next June.

Chancellor Gordon Brown has rewarded two printing industry companies that have highlighted the economic importance of the UKs inner cities.

The developer of a CD designed to foster a higher level of understanding of the industry in schools and colleges is calling for industry sponsorship to enable its mass production.

ICSM can now provide online access to Experian information after teaming up with the business intelligence service.

Magnet Harlequin founder Gerry Bett has retired after an MBO at the Uxbridge-based repro house.

Prolatus Europe has promised to offer a cheap desktop file delivery system for smaller companies with the European launch of Transport DT and Transport Branded Server on 9 December.

Esko-Graphics is talking to a number of unnamed manufacturers to form partnerships to offer its pre-press equipment as part of packages.

London printer Tranquil Storm and Kirkcaldy-based printer Inglis Allen have both installed Agfas Galileo automatic B1 platesetter.

Xerox has launched its Print Referral Service, which enables print buyers to access a global network of almost 300 digital print companies from the Xerox Premier Partner Community.