News

Aspire Print & Repro has invested 330,000 in a Heidelberg QM46 DI, in a bid to open up "new revenue streams".

NUR will reveal a prototype flatbed printer at Fespa, which has been designed to print on a range of substrates from corrugated board, PVC, glass, polycarbonate and standard media.

Printcafe has notched up three sales of its PrintSmith MIS for quickprinters.

Island Scan has bought the first Xeikon DCP 500 D digital press in the UK from the "new Xeikon" after Xeikon was bought by Belgian firm Punch in March this year.

M-real Sittingbourne has won the Jefferson Smurfit Memorial Safety Award, having achieved the most significant progress in health and safety improvements since 1998.

Sappi Nash Mills is looking to develop its European business and is set to announce the UK merchant partners for its new Contemporary by Croxley grade (<i>PrintWeek</i>, 28 March).

IPC is centralising all its jobbing commercial print procurement via an e-commerce site and producing a preferred suppliers list.

Edotech, the Tewkesbury-based outsourcing group, has won a two-year extension to its Thames Water print contract.

Communisis has propelled itself into a top-ranking print management spot with the 42m purchase of Centurion Press.

Fuji Graphic Systems director Stephen Webb (pictured) has left after less than four months with the firm.

Communisis has bought Centurion Press in a 42m deal.

Polestar has recruited its new human resources director from Diageo, the owner of Guinness.

The BPIF and the PPA have joined forces to enable magazine publishers to assess the environmental performance of their printers.

Waddies and the Ormolu Group are being tipped as possible merger partners, in a move that could create a 60m-plus group.

Printcafe has put its plans to float on Nasdaq on hold due to the recent decline in the market.