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The newly formed Newspaper Marketing Agency (NMA) could consider changes to the gatekeeper repro companies, through which artwork passes to national papers.

Belfasts Aston Digital Print has placed a reserve order for a Xerox DocuColor iGen3 and is due to take delivery of one of the UKs very first machines next year.

HP Indigo has sold two of its 1000 digital presses into the UK market to Redlin Print Management in Essex and Redditch-based SP Group.

Printcafe chief executive Marc Olin says the slump in the firms share price since its IPO last month (<i>PrintWeek</i>, 12 July) is "primarily a symptom of stock market conditions".

Alberta-Pacific (AL-PAC) Forest Industries is to embark on Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification for all of its 58,000km2 forest management area in the Alberta Pacific region of Canada.

UK printers will pay more for paper and board over the next year, says a new report.

International Paper (IP) has made a second-quarter profit, a reversal of last years loss, following significant cost reductions.

Kalamazoo Security Print, the Birmingham-based firm owned by Adare Group, is using its expertise to print over 1m exam certificates for Edexcel.

Carlton Barclay has been placed into liquidation, with the loss of 100 remaining jobs, after a deal to buy the company out of administrative receivership fell through.

Graphic Inline has become the first direct mail printer, and the second UK print company, to make its operations carbon neutral.

The assets of Basildon-based Carlton Barclay and Litho-Tech Colour Printers could be sold to an unnamed party within days, according to administrative receiver Lee Manning of Kroll Buchler Phillips.

Serigraphic, part of Thomas Potts, has made 12 of its 55 staff redundant after a slackening of demand. The Harlow-based firm has also appointed a new production director, Chris Guess.

Trinity Mirrors regional press improvement is continuing with an 11m investment into new press facilities in Teesside.

Heidelberg has hit back in the struggle to secure orders in the tough commercial web market after The Artisan Press, the Leicester brochure and magazine printer, signed up for a 48pp gapless Sunday...

Polestar has retained the services of former Watmoughs managing director Doug Richardson, who will work on manufacturing performance from the groups head office.