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The union representing the 500 workers at the Ecusta paper plant in North Carolina has said workers there have no "faith" in its owner, Melton Medes Group chairman Nathu Ram Puri.

Weak demand for newsprint and magazine paper during the second half of the year and a downturn in the fourth quarter have failed to derail Holmen Paper.

Two preferred bidders have emerged for Xeikons colour business: MAN Roland and a joint bid from Yam International and Alpha Capital.

Toppan Printing has invested a further 17.5m ($25m) in E Ink as the companies expand their partnership to make electronic paper commercially available.

Pressdata Repro and Silver Line Graphics have both ceased trading and been placed into receivership after suffering on-going trading losses over the past year.

CIP4 will reveal a new version of the Job Definition Format (JDF) this summer.

Heidelberg has signed an agreement with US firm Spectra to develop products based on piezo ink-jet.

Screen will show an Epson-developed ink-jet digital label printer for the first time in Europe at Ipex.

Global Graphics is hoping to take a large part of the market for B3 metal CTP with a fully manual version of its Cirrus 2 platesetter.

Creo chief financial officer Michael Graydon has stepped down and is to be replaced by Mark Dance.

TFG has adopted Extensis Preflight Online for the online submission of files.

Scantech in Heathfield, East Sussex, is the first UK firm to install Agfas Palladio B2 CTP system.

NCS Group and Premier Integrated Solutions (PIS) are set to merge, forming a nationwide pre-press and digital distribution group.

KBA aims to take on the Heidelberg GTO with its latest press, the Genius 52.

Binuscan is aiming to increase European sales of its PhotoRetouch Pro image processing software.