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The joint owners of West Ferry Printers are "back to square one" after 15 months of legal wrangling that has cost an estimated 1m.

Lawson Mardon will install a 5m gravure press in the second quarter of 2003 at its Salterbeck flexible packaging site in Cumbria.

SunChemical Gibbon believes its new Finaset ink will steal the show at Ipex.

The BPIF has launched an investigation with the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) into paper cartels and has called on members to provide any hard evidence.

Oldham Borough Council has signed a five-year 9m deal with Xerox to manage its printing.

Service Point has won the 25m contract to manage design, document management and print for Terminal 5 from BAA.

Rudolph Hell, one of the great printing technology developers of the 20th century, has died aged 100.

SunChemicals January 2000 acquisition of Coates Lorilleux from TotalFina plunged the groups UK operations deep into the red for that year, its latest accounts have revealed.

Williams Lea, the London-based print and facilities management group, plans to seek a public listing in the next 12 months.

Credit insurer Euler Trade Indemnity has not cut its cover across the whole printing sector.

Scorpio Print Finishers has reacted with incredulity after the GPMU launched an aggressive recognition campaign at the company.

A rumoured picket of Polestar Chromoworks in Nottingham by disaffected GPMU chapel officials has failed to materialise.

The adoption of CTP ate into Litho Supplies' sales of consumables and traditional pre-press equipment for the year to 31 December 2001 and its pre-tax profits dropped too.

Polestar Chromoworks has been saved from closure by a last-minute intervention from GPMU general secretary Tony Dubbins.

Lexicon, the transactional data and mailing arm of Adare Printing Group, has secured a two-and-a-half year contract with Yell worth 750,000 a year.