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The crisis in Scotlands electronics industry is forcing Macfarlane Group to look at rationalising its packaging facilities

Photobition has given its strongest indication yet that a management buyout (MBO) will happen, after reporting that trading since January has fallen well below expectations

The Climate Change Levy has put the paper industry under further pressure by raising the prices of materials and fuel by almost 1% over the past month

Quickcut is in the process of negotiating with BT Ignite to take over the leased lines of Vio users who also use Quickcut

Screen revealed a faster version of its PlateRite thermal platesetter at TPG in Paris this week, the PlateRite 8600, which produces 20 B1 plates per hour

Bousfield will increase its prices on some smaller, less profitable contracts from 1 June after looking at other ways of increasing profitability

Heidelbergs profits for the year ending 31 March 2001 have exceeded expectations and sales across all divisions continue to grow

Hyway Printing Group has appointed a new group managing director, David Harrison, to help navigate the company through its on-going investment programme

Virgin has set up a new business to take its own print supply chain management solution to a wider audience, offering clients savings of up to 20% in the process

Midlands Publishing Group (MPG) claims to be "on the verge" of completing the acquisition of a web offset printer with sales of 8.75m

British Telecom is considering plans to demerge or sell Yell, its Yellow Pages business, but it seems unlikely that printing will be affected

M-real plans to substantially reduce the number of Zanders products and streamline its operations

Scitex claims its focus on digital printing and ink-jet technology is bearing fruit after reporting increased revenues for Scitex Digital Printing and Scitex Vision

Field Group has won the contract to produce John Dewars multipack cartons and has installed a high- speed packing line to do the job

The crisis in Scotlands electronics industry is forcing Macfarlane Group to look at rationalising its packaging facilities