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The Macfarlane Group has announced it is to continue with its restructuring programme, after seeing a dramatic plunge in profits for the first half of 2002.

GPMU general secretary Tony Dubbins called for the government to fully implement European employment legislation at the TUC conference this week.

Heidelberg says its complete product range from pre-press through to finishing will be JDF-compliant by Drupa 2004.

Horner Group is celebrating its 20th anniversary this weekend with a huge party at its Rotherham base.

The BAPC is gearing up for its annual conference and awards ceremony in Beaconsfield next week (20-21 September).

Ormolu Group has announced the appointment of two new executive directors to its board, Gordon Samson and Michael Gardner.

Mono, a subsidiary of Aga Foodservice, has launched PhotoCake, a corporate promotional product that uses edible dyes to print photographs on cakes.

Curtis Fine Papers managing director Allan Milne has confirmed his plans to retire, once a new managing director is in place at the Scottish manufacturer.

Fife Fire Service has completed its investigation into the fire at Smith Andersons paper mill, which has determined that the root cause of the blaze was the reaction of the paper (PrintWeek, 6...

Despite having cut overheads to the bare minimum Litho Supplies interim results show that pricing pressure, due to overcapacity, is having a negative impact on margins.

London packaging design company Thames McGurk has become the UKs first test site for Esko-Graphics desktop packaging production tool, DeskPack.

Canon has launched a 39ppm entry-level production colour laser copier/printer, incorporating all the technologies of the faster CLC 5000, but at a lower price.

A digital reproduction of the Koran, believed to be the first Islamic manuscript to be available online, is now available from the British Library.

Epson and Hewlett-Packard have both launched new versions of their top-of-the-range, wide-format printers.

M-real has launched its new "silver" range, comprising 27 papers and covering the complete digital printing spectrum.