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KBA has agreed a new set of employee regulations which will see staff jobs in Germany protected until 30 June 2015, but will give the company the right to reduce weekly working times.

Stationery printer Blackburns of Bolton's assets have been sold in a bid to recoup creditors' dividends as sale prospects disappear following its fall into administration.

East London printer Blackhammer has ceased trading with all staff made redundant, following the appointment of administrators last month.

Stirland Paterson apprentice Craig Clifford beat competitors from Warwick Printing, Hartgraph and Phase Print to win gold in the print section of The Skills Show, on 17 November.

ESP Colour has smashed its own global productivity record after achieving 498 makereadies and 2.1m impressions at an average 17,108 sheets per hour in one 168 hour week on its XL 105.

Cheshire Anilox Technology (CAT) has installed a fifth Fibre laser which it claims can create a "limitless" amount of cell designs for anilox rollers.

Print-Leeds has invested around 3m in a Heidelberg Speedmaster CX 102-7+L and CTP system as part of its expansion following the acquisition of S&C Labels in February.

Glossop Cartons has spent "hundreds of thousands" on a secondhand four-colour Mitsubishi D3000LX press, for its premises in Glossop, Derbyshire.

Heidelberg has exceeded its own expectations by selling over 1,000 Speedmaster SX units since the range's launch.