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Friends of the Earth (FoE) says its campaign to prevent pulp and paper imports into the UK from Indonesia is working, after reporting dramatic reductions for the second half of 2001.

Leeds-based print management company Radius Management Services has secured the contract to handle the print expenditure of the RAC group.

St Ives (Plymouth) has won the contract to produce 100,000 30th anniversary magazines for the soap opera <i>Emmerdale</i>.

Southernprint is set to increase the UKs web offset capacity further with the installation of a MAN Roland Lithoman IV as part of a 7m investment.

Litho Supplies' interim results show that pricing pressure due to overcapacity is having a negative impact on margins.

DS Smiths AGM heard that the packaging and office products group had made a good start to the year, Volumes were in line with last year at St Regis Paper, while John Dickinson was achieving higher...

London Digital Printing Group is under the control of a new management team and has taken delivery of an HP Indigo Press 3000. Brothers Nicholas and Tim Green join Les Bexfield at the companys helm.

Another Bunyard company, Multiplex Techniques (UK), has come under fire from employees angered at the manner in which the firm ceased trading.

Heidelberg, the worlds biggest printing equipment manufacturer and often viewed as a barometer of industry conditions, has warned of a 10% fall in sales this year after failing to see any recovery in...

Polestar Petty in Leeds is in talks with the GPMU in a dispute over its agreement to give staff a two-year staggered pay increase.

Paper quality is the most common cause of print problems, according to a survey by ink manufacturer Bousfield.

AlphaGraphics, the global high-street print franchise chain, has signed up to make Printcafes PrintSmith Report Writer a standard software package for its 300-plus outlets.

Smith Anderson lost between 700-900 tonnes of waste paper in a blaze at its Fife paper mill last week.

Sun Chemical has failed to stop the flow of heavy losses following its acquisition of Coates Lorilleux at the beginning of 2000.

Communisis' new acquisition, Centurion Press, has already contributed to the group's growing profits.