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Polestar has given workers at Chromoworks 30 days' notice of the closure of the facility.

Goodhead Group's unsecured trade creditors are owed more than 9m, and are likely to receive only a tiny fraction of their money, if anything at all, back.

Wyndeham Group has announced 70 redundancies at its Peterborough facility as the result of a month-long consultation with employees at the plant.

Polestar Group has extended its contract with <i>PrintWeek</i> publisher Haymarket Media Group.

Wyndeham Group is proposing to downsize two of its web offset sites, involving the likely loss of around 100 jobs.

Polestar has moved quickly to begin restructuring its freshly-expanded operations after last month's purchase of the Goodhead businesses.

KBA is to merge its Trennfeld plant into its main Wrzburg facility 16 miles away, a move it said would save several million euros a year but lead to "almost all" 220 staff being offered new roles.

Magazine printer Headley Brothers has bought a new Goss M-600 press to replace two older Heidelberg machines.

The anticipated sale of Sir John Madejski's Goodhead Group is still to be confirmed.