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St Ives has cited worse trading conditions than for many years in almost all its markets bar books.

Heidelberg has expanded its product portfolio for newspaper printers by acquiring IDAB WAMAC, the Swedish mailroom specialist.

Knight Machinery (Holdings), the parent company of Ry-Offset Graphics, Printers Superstore and The Printing Machinery Hire Company among others, has gone into administration.

Howitt has confirmed that it is behind the new gravure superplant planned for the UK.

Tough trading and restructuring costs at its print division has seen Jarrolds post a loss in its latest accounts.

Scottish Enterprise hopes to save over 12m in print costs over the next five years, after reviewing its procurement procedures and introducing the Newspaper Societys file transmission system, AdFast.

Silicon Systems has launched Xeus, a new graphics server that, it claims, outperforms comparable products from Dell and Apple.

Christys Print Finishers is looking to expand and could double its 1,600m2 premises.

Litho Supplies national sales director Eddie Williams says price cutting is to blame for the problems of smaller dealers.

Pre-press suppliers are taken to task over the industrys slow take-up of common production standards in a new report.

Government ministers could intervene to progress the European Commission investigation into the Waste Resources Action Programmes (WRAP) newsprint-recycling project (<i>Print-Week</i>, 27 September).

The Print & Graphic Communication NTO (PGC NTO) has been handed responsibility for a 180,000 recruitment programme sponsored by the DTI.

Electronics For Imaging (EFI) unveiled a raft of new products this week including a version of its Velocity Balance workflow that can drive non-Fiery printers.

Buccleuch Printers in the Scottish Borders has bought the printing assets of US software company Sykes for an undisclosed sum.

The DTI is backing the packaging industrys first competitiveness study, to be undertaken by Pira in conjunction with the Packaging Federation.