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The recycling rate for paper jumped 4% to 52.1% in 2001, putting the industry well on its way to reaching its target of 56% by 2005, according to the Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPIs)...

Holmen Papers new PM11 paper machine has been inaugurated by King Carl XVI Gustaf at its Hallsta mill in Sweden.

TripleArc has bought rival printing software developer ControlP from Documedia Solutions.

St Ives Caerphilly has printed the largest issue of <i>Marie Claire</i> in the magazines 14-year history.

Polestar has announced fresh investment in its UK gravure business as speculation regarding the launch of a new UK gravure player reaches fever pitch.

TripleArc has bought rival ControlP from Documedia Solutions.

Wyndeham has at last disposed of its peripheral packaging subsidiary, Riverside Packaging.

Chief executive Matthew Valentine has left independent paper supplier Salehurst International.

Astrons new workflow and digital asset management system, AstroMedia, has helped it to win the contract to provide print and logistics management for O2 Ireland.

Polestar Petty has reached an agreement with the GPMU to pay its staff the 3% pay rise promised last year.

St Ives Direct is relocating its Edenbridge-based Red Letter mailing operation from Kent to Essex.

Scotprint, the biennial Glasgow show, has been postponed until next October.

Printing.com says its net invoiced sales are at record levels and it is now trading profitably.Net invoiced sales for transactional business totalled 561,000 for the four weeks ending 15 September.

Geoff Neal Litho in Feltham has become the first company in the UK to use Uvco/Zodiacs silver pearlescent laminate from Clarifoil, which helped it to produce 175,000 direct mail envelopes for the...

Communisis claims its latest campaign for Air Miles is the UKs largest ever digitally printed direct mailing.