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CK Midas plans to move further into digital printing over the next 12 months following its recent formation

Lancashire County Council has placed Europe's biggest order for Heidelberg Digimasters, worth between 1.5m and 2m over seven years, with Danka UK

Celticnet has bought the assets of Elements Cambridge from administrative receiver Grant Thornton for an undisclosed sum. The Cambridge site went into administrative receivership last year

G&E 2000, a subsidiary of Thomas Potts, has acquired periodical and commercial repro house Digital Reproductions

Heidelberg has sold over 1,000 of its latest flatbed scanner, the Nexscan, in the first year of production. The 1,000th unit was sold to an American publisher

Kall Kwik City is expanding its facilities by creating the single biggest Kall Kwik production facility in the country.

Stora Enso is restructuring production to improve profitability by building a 400,000-tonnes-per-year newsprint/supercalendered paper machine - but it will close two others.

St Ives Direct has appointed a new managing director at its south London screen print operation, DisplayCraft.

Print UK 2001 launched this week and will take the theme "from desktop to delivery".

North American pulp producers Canfor and Bowater are reducing output by around 60,000 tonnes between them.

Scottish Enterprise Grampian has launched a feasibility study into the building of a new pulp mill in Scotland.

Printing of four regional weeklies taken over this month will remain with Mortons Print at Horncastle for the time being.

Enfocus has launched a new tool that it claims will make pre-flighting PDF files simpler, quicker and more robust.

The BPIF has been promoting the capabilities of digital print by personalising its most recent "industry briefing" document, which is sent out to all MPs

The outlook for the UK paper and board market is mixed, according to PPL Research's UK demand and price forecast report.