Contracts

The British Library has put out a tender in a bid to establish a framework of printers to call upon for book production.

Paper sector workers will benefit from a 2.6% increase in their basic hourly wage following a review of Unite and the Confederation of Paper Industries' (CPI) national agreement.

Ferrostaal Equipment Solutions North America has highlighted the potential upside of a combined Ryobi and Mitsubishi offset press business after the pair signed a letter of intent this week.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Printing & Packaging Machinery and Ryobi are planning a joint venture that could result in the marriage of their sheetfed offset press operations worldwide.

Print management firm HH Global has won a contract to design permanent POS displays for Dyson's Airblade product.

Kama has teamed up with Tech-ni-Fold to add creasing and perforating to its ProFold 74.

Newsprinters has been permanently appointed the <i>Metro London</i> contract after printing the paper on a temporary basis since previous printer Newsfax went into administration.

Ottimo Digital has recently completed a contract to print new livery on the back of the RAC's 1,400 breakdown assistance vans.

San Diego-based Memjet this week announced a move into managed print services for small to medium size businesses, alongside its continued push in the wide-format and labelling space.

Colour management software firms GMG and matchmycolour have partnered to create compatible databases for more efficient colour management.