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Confusion surrounds Powage liquidation

Powage Press has gone into liquidation following a successful winding-up order issued on 7 March

West Ferry dispute escalates further

As PrintWeek went to press West Ferry Printers was on the brink of issuing a writ against Express Group for non-payment of a 6m print bill, as relations between joint owners Telegraph Group and...

Heidelberg shows software at CeBIT

Heidelberg used CeBIT to launch an assault on Xeroxs key black-and white transactional printing market

SunJet to supply ink for Xaar

Sun Chemicals new division for ink-jet ink development and manufacture has signed a deal with Xaar

Henry Ling selects kit for CTP revamp

Henry Ling, the original UK user of the Linotype Gutenberg CTP system, has decided to upgrade with a combined Topsetter/Trendsetter package from Heidelberg

Pre-flight firms end dispute

Pre-flighting software developer Markzware and Creativepro.com, the parent company of pre-press software firm Extensis, have settled a patent infringement lawsuit

Lowe firm in Newstec launch

Former KBA boss Kelvin Lowe will use Newstec as the launchpad for his new venture, Press Systems

Baltic Pulp selects site of Latvian mill

Baltic Pulp has selected a site for the proposed 600,000-tonnes-per-annum kraft pulp mill to be built in Latvia

ControlP to fuse print portals

ControlP has merged the operations of its online print portals, printbynet.com and ctrlp.com

Profits crash at Cradley Print

Cradley Groups interim results show a 9% rise in sales to 15.24m, but a net loss of 176,000 before tax.

NCS is burgled twice in a week

NCS Groups Advanced Technologies Centre has been the subject of two break-ins over 80,000 of kit has been stolen

Changes to UPM-Kymmene board are announced

UPM-Kymmene has unveiled a series of new appointments and changes to its board of directors, including the election of Vesa Vainio as chairman

ENjet puts Aprion kit in sign market

Scitex Vision and sister firm, Aprion Digital, have predicted that their new wide-format sheetfed digital press will be available for shipping by September

Epson launches wide-format rival to challenge HP

Epson has launched the Stylus Pro 10000, a new wide-format ink-jet printer to challenge the Hewlett-Packard Designjet 5000

Sperring hopes to bloom after Tempest

Beric Tempest & Co has struck out from its parent H Tempest photographic group in a management buyout