News

Ocs sales climbed 7% to 485m (E776m) in the first quarter of 2001, fuelled by strong growth in its Production Printing Systems (PPS) business

Pressure on pulp prices is mounting with Sdra announcing a further $30-per-tonne cut in its Northern Bleached Softwood Kraft (NBSK) grade

Xerox has executed the first stage of its equipment financing disposal strategy with the sale of its portfolio of lease receivables for Scandinavia

Mets-Serlas AGM heard that the groups 37m (E59.5m) direct share issue had been over-subscribed by almost three times

Southernprint has stepped in to print IPC SouthBanks new 132pp glossy 25 Beautiful Gardens after original printer St Ives turned down the first issue because of a lack of capacity

Agfa has launched Digital QuickStrip, a plug-in for Apogee, for working with pages rather than complete flats. The 6,000 plug-in allows for post-RIP assembly of flats from individual elements

James McNaughton Paper Group has appointed Tony Porter as marketing director

Business support service specialist Amey Comax has handled the stationery printing for QinetiQ, the re-branded Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA)

Openshaw will launch the next phase of its e-commerce strategy, an online catalogue called Phizz, next month

Vios management is engaged in ongoing talks over the proposal for Scitex and BT to sell the data transfer and graphic arts ASP to its management team

Fuji launched its e-production service, myfujifilm.com, at Seybold Boston this week

Patrick Howitt marked his retirement from the printing industry with a farewell lunch at Stationers Hall last week

AGI Media Packaging has appointed Dave Mackintosh as the new managing director at its Swindon multimedia plant

Bemrose is strengthening its executive management team with a number of key appointments

Harmsworth Quays, the worlds largest flexo newspaper plant, has reaffirmed it commitment to the process with a 55m investment in KBA Courier presses over five years