Companies & suppliers

A host of printing industry representatives are on their way to Buckingham Palace, for an occasion made even more special by the arrival of the new prince.

Paperlinx has resigned from all European paper merchant trade associations, including the UK's National Association of Paper Merchants (NAPM), after describing them as a "waste of money".

Punch Graphics is to sell its majority stake in digital press manufacturer Xeikon in a deal that values the business at €185m (£160m).

EFI has recorded a record quarter in Q2, with sales growing 10% year-on-year to $180.3m (118m) and operating profit growing 19% to $23.4m.

Motique Plastics has brought a new Japanese method of producing domed badges and emblems to the UK market.

Industrial action at Crown Speciality Packaging has been called off after the company announced a restructure that could halve its print department.

York Mailing has secured a major vote of confidence in print, becoming the first printing company to receive a multi-milllion pound investment via the Business Growth Fund (BGF).

Agfa Graphics plans to close down its printing plate factory in Manerbio, northern Italy with the loss of all 123 jobs.

Communisis will effectively double the size of its transactional printing business as part of a deal to take over the in-house print operations of Lloyds TSB.

Woodford Web managing director Michael Tame has urged small- and medium-sized publishers to "keep their wits about them" in the face of major changes in the web offset printing landscape.