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Paper companies have once again been hit hardest by bad debts, after it was revealed that creditors of Hyway Printing Services must absorb 3.1m.

Polestar has announced a fresh investment in its UK gravure business as speculation regarding the launch of a new UK gravure player reaches fever pitch with Howitt now being linked to the new...

Ballinger Rawlings, the packaging machinery supplier, has gone into voluntary liquidation and ceased trading after more than 40 years in business, following unsuccessful cost-cutting measures.

The GPMU has taken its campaign for a statutory training levy to the Labour Party Conference.

EFI is developing a version of its Fiery server that can output colour variable data at a rate of 2,000 A4 pages per minute.

The European Commission will investigate the Waste Resources Action Programmes (WRAP) planned 23m (E35m) of aid for UPM-Kymmenes Shotton Paper.

Demonstrations of the first products to use the UP3I standard will be held on the IBM and Oc stands at Xplor 2002 this month in California.

Stephens & George (S&G) Magazines has made over 1.3m impressions on its new B1 eight-colour Heidelberg Speedmaster with CutStar sheeter in its first eight days of operation.

Mitsubishi HiTec Paper has announced a 6% price rise for its Giroform reels in the UK and Ireland with effect from 1 January 2003.

Productivity in the pulp, paper, printing and publishing sectors fell in the second quarter, according to the latest government statistics.

Chris Poltera has resigned from his role as executive director at St Ives subsidiary Burrups to join rival financial print specialist Bowne.

Selected assets of Redditch-based packaging specialist Boxfoldia will be sold to a management team after the companys owners decided to opt out of carton manufacturing due to poor margins.

BBC Worldwide this week staged a debate on the progress being made to produce more Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)-certified paper at a meeting of the WWF 95+ paper group.

The information on Broglia Press supplied to <i>PrintWeek</i> by the GPMU last week was incorrect (<i>PrintWeek</i>, 27 September).

Tech-ni-fold, the manufacturer of the award-winning Tri-Creaser, has taken on former Senator Print Finishers project manager Paul Barrett as its national sales technician.