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James Cropper has predicted that its papermaking business will turn around after announcing a pre-tax loss of 800,000 for the year to 31 March

Portland has signed up with US firm Saepio Technologies to sell its range of agile media software in the UK

Communisis One, the Leeds-based creative and repro arm of the print and direct marketing group, has invested 500,000 in digital pre-press from Heidelberg

Development of the next version of the PPAs pass4press specification for digital advertising is well underway

Investment in the Finnish forestry industry has reached its highest ever level at more than 985m (E1.6bn), according to Finnish Forest Industries Federation (FFIF) emission and investment figures for...

Contract management firm Horner Brothers expects to take on 50 extra staff this year to cope with soaring demand

Mondi Display has bought Nottingham silk-screen firm Specialised Printed Graphics to strengthen its core market of point-of-sale products

Tullis Russell is putting a brave face on its first ever pre-tax loss, saying it is on firmer foundations after job losses and closures

Xeikon plans to borrow a further 28.6m ($40m) to overcome the lean period caused by the absence of orders from Xerox and the troubled introduction of its CSP 320 D

PrintChannel, the web-based print service, is beating the e-slump by gaining more funding to buy technology assets, while rival Collabria has gone out of business

The chancellor Gordon Brown has unveiled proposals to modernise insolvency laws and remove the Crowns preferential right to recover unpaid taxes ahead of other creditors

Omnia Books celebrated winning a three-year 1m mono book printing deal with Simon & Schuster by welcoming novelist Victoria Routledge to its Bishopbriggs, Glasgow plant

Thomas Potts has admitted it is talking to TV tycoon Michael Green over a deal that may mean handing over almost a third of the print group

Magazine Printing Company chairman Tony Stokes has refuted claims that his company was the subject of the <i>Financial Times</i> For Sale advertisement on 5 June

Silicon Systems has launched a server aimed at the print and pre-press market, which it claims smashes the price performance barrier by using the Linux operating system and standard PC hardware