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KBA is setting up a new service business with the aim of wooing disaffected Manroland customers.

Photographic printer and equipment reseller Focal Point Imaging has secured ISO 9001 customer service quality management standard.

HP reseller CWE Solutions has relocated its southern base to a larger facility outside of central London.

Superior Creative has opened its new design studio in Wiltshire, part of a 2m investment programme.

Unite has accused packaging manufacturer Mayr-Melnhof Packaging of targeting its members after redundancy letters were sent to 49 employees.

Stationery producer Duraweld has announced a host of improvements in its five-year environmental management programme.

Manufacturer the Printed Cup Company has expanded with the opening of a new factory in the UK, which will specialise in producing short- and medium-run paper cups.

The government has announced a consultation looking into changes to the current workplace dismissal laws.

Swiss-headquartered investment fund Quantum Capital is to acquire BASF's Netherlands-based offset printing inks business IMEX.

The European Commission has rubber-stamped the government's plans to set up a National Loan Guarantee Scheme (NLGS) to provide 20bn of low interest loans to SMEs over the next two years.

York Mailing has been producing 1m impressions per week on its latest investment, a KBA Rapida 105 with UV coater installed in January.

Friedheim has expanded its laminating portfolio with a new entry-level laminator from Komfi.

Troubled merchant Paperlinx is to sell its Italian business, Polyedra, to European paper manufacturer Lecta for 45m (37.5m), as part of its restructuring programme.