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The Print and Graphic Communication National Training Organisation (PGCNTO) has completed its Sector Workforce Development Plan, which will affect its funding for the next three years

Waddies has completed the acquisition of Polton Press two months after it was first mooted

Vaseys Colour Printers has bought an automated B1 six-colour Komori Lithrone 640 with coater, its third Komori press, which will be commissioned in the middle of this month.

Polestar has won the 1.5m contract for Neat Ideas monthly office furniture catalogues and stationery, which were formerly produced by Jarrolds

Burall PlasTec, based in Cambridgeshire, has produced 50,000 lenticular front covers for Shine magazine, the first womens monthly to feature the process

Booktailor is to license its e-business architecture to non-fiction and reference publishers, enabling them to produce on-demand customised books via the web

Komori veteran David Jarrett is back with a business in the used machinery market, DDJ Graphics

PKF has been appointed as administrative receiver for The Rival Envelope Company after its major paper supplier withdrew credit terms

Plans for a pan-European electronic trading portal for the paper industry have been unveiled by several major producers and merchants

M-Real has organised its paper group into three areas following its name change from Mets-Serla on 6 April

Stora Enso and Holmen Paper have reported favourable first-quarter results, despite facing what Stora chief executive Jukka Hrml described as "ever tightening markets"

Xeikon has attributed its disappointing first-quarter results to the dearth of business from Xerox

Electronics For Imagings strong cash flow means now is "a very good time to look at acquisitions and opportunities", according to chief financial officer Joe Cutts

GreenShires, the Kettering- and Leicester-based magazine, commercial and screen printer, has bought the UKs first CreoScitex Lotem Quantum

Former PrintPotato.com managing director Peter Henry has joined ControlP