News

Research by the Rochester Institute of Technology suggests that the decline of print at the hands of the Internet and other media is greatly overstated

Sdra Cells Tofte kraft pulp mill has been forced to cease production because of a rupture in its recovery boiler

Barco has blamed the recent spate of profit warnings among graphic arts suppliers for scuppering the MBO plans at its Graphics division

ESP Colour has invested 1.7m in the UK's first eight-colour Komori Lithrone 40P perfecting press

Polestar Purnell managing director David Yendole has taken over at sister plant Varnicoat

St Ives is optimistic that a solution is in sight to the wage negotiations across its web division

Negotiations over the future of Field's Thatcham plant have been temporarily suspended

Printers are taking on more work with Christmas approaching but uncertainty arising from a disappointing year is clouding their optimism

The dispute at St Ives over redundancies and annual wage increases looks set to break out into strike action

A working party has been set up to look at the books of Field''s Thatcham plant following the announcement of its planned closure

Impresse showed signs of increasing financial difficulty when it laid off a number of sales and marketing staff and chief executive Nimish Mehta resigned

IBM has announced a new cut-sheet monochrome digital press and enhancements to its Docuprint range

The packaging industry has been dealt another blow with the news that Stora Enso is to close Newton Kyme mill

Hardy Business Forms has been rescued at the last minute by Moore Paragon parent Grenadier.

Elements, the UK wing of ailing US digital print group Unidigital, is set to be sold-off and the UK-based management team will be among the bidders