News

Abitibi-Consolidated plans to permanently remove 180,000 tonnes of newsprint capacity from the North American market from 15 June

Elizabeth Allen has been appointed to what one book printer has labelled the top book production job in the UK

Basingstoke-based Impact Litho has printed the double cover for IPC Medias latest issue of Essentials magazine

TPL Loose Leaf is closing its paper over board ring binders division after a fall in demand for its products

A receiver from BDO Stoy Hayward has been appointed at magazine printer Duncan Web Offset and is looking to sell the business as a going concern

Springtek has launched LBB3, a bigger and faster version of its low-cost RAID system.

The demise of the pulp and paper dotcoms continues after PaperExchange closed its European operation in London with the loss of all 17 jobs

Paul Rudd, the former Express Newspapers production and operations director and West Ferry chairman, is in talks with "one or two people" about his employment plans

Yell Group is "actively looking" for a new head of publishing to oversee its <i>Yellow Pages</i> and <i>Business Pages</i> directories

Trouble continues to mount for Asia Pulp & Paper (APP); the group faces the threat of fresh legal action, while two subsidiaries are to make late interest payments after threats from creditors

Robert Fletcher has closed its Stoneclough mill at Radcliffe, Manchester, which produces woodfree bible and printing papers, resulting in the loss of nearly 150 jobs

Httprint has opened its first office on mainland Europe in a bid to take advantage of continental printers sophisticated communications infrastructure

German Encad seller Nonius has developed an ink-jet transfer paper for permanent outdoor graphics, which can be applied to uneven and curved surfaces

Former PaperX.com technology director Ian Leader has acquired all of the software written by PaperX from the receivers and set up a new firm, Exteriority

Belfast-based Textflow has invested 500,000 in three new Heidelberg Digimaster 9110 presses to meet a rise in demand for black-and-white print-on-demand work