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Agfa boss unveils vision for growth

Agfas new chief executive, Ludo Verhoeven, has made an immediate mark on the group by announcing a major investment and efficiency plan

Heron faces bindery strike over new line

ET Heron is facing disruption in its bindery next week after GPMU staff voted in favour of strike action, but the firm hopes that "common sense will prevail"

Paxar plans to relocate plant to Essex

Clothing label firm Paxar Apparel Group has unveiled plans to relocate its ticket and packaging printing plant from Harlesden, London, to Harlow in Essex

Polestar takes on more work for LPN

Polestar has picked up more work from London Property News on the back of Duncan Web Offsets demise

M-real unveils its newly titled product ranges

M-real has introduced the first products under its new name as its endeavours to establish itself as one of the few worldwide suppliers whose ranges encompass the whole digital printing spectrum

Rival's workers lose their jobs

The 73 employees that remain at The Rival Envelope Company are to be made redundant after administrative receiver PKF could not find a buyer

EU sustainability may damage forest initiative

Forest firms want to clean up their ecological act but fear EU sustainability drives could kill off competitiveness, the Forest-based Industries Forum heard last week

Inveresk/Klippan battle still raging

Inveresk has urged shareholders to vote against admitting Klippan Paper representatives Jan Bernander and Alan Walker to its board at todays AGM (29 June)

Busselot takes Euro marketing post at Indigo

Indigo has promoted Erwin Busselot to the post of European marketing director from marketing manager for Indigo Benelux

PrintCafe users get marketing assistance kit

PrintCafe has launched its Printer Success Programme, a set of marketing tools to help printers using its e-commerce systems promote the benefits to their customers

Karat users to get e-commerce deal

Httprint and KBA have teamed up on a new e-commerce product tailored for users of KBAs 74 Karat digital press

CPI is gearing up for e-books in UK

CPI is ramping up its e-book production facilities in the UK and used a customer event last week to encourage publishers to make the most of them

Fuji pushes news potential of Luxel

Fuji has launched a B2 version of its multi-laser imagesetter which can produce up to 67 films per hour

NUR installs further Salsa 3200s in UK and Ireland

NUR Europe has revealed that further installations of its NUR Salsa 3200 wide-format digital printer are taking place in the UK following the supply of a new machine to Echo Studios

Best Screenproof reproduces halftones on ink-jet

Proofing RIP specialist Best has developed a system for producing colour managed halftone proofs on Hewlett-Packard ink-jet printers