News

The worlds largest print machinery manufacturing plant Heidelbergs in Wiesloch could be affected by proposed strike action by Germanys IG Metall engineering union.

Polestar is tapping the recruitment market to assess potential managers and manufacturing directors.

Trinity Mirror has confirmed its massive order with Goss for its new 60m Fort Dunlop site between Birmingham and Coventry (<i>PrintWeek</i>, 8 March 2002).

Inveresk will close its Westfield Mill in Scotland and exit the label papers business in May, with the loss of 152 jobs.

Stora Enso has seen a drop in business but is holding out for an improvement this year after its first-quarter net profits fell 43% to 99m compared to the same period last year.

Printing equipment and supplies from the US could be hit by a 30% rise in import duties if punitive measures relating to the steel dispute between Europe and the US are approved.

Managing director Adrian Coles has successfully completed an MBO at James Townsend & Sons, the Exeter-based wet-glue label printer, and remains assuredly realistic but not optimistic about the coming...

Warners Midlands, the Lincolnshire-based magazine printer, is hoping to boost its turnover by 5m to 27m with the addition of a Heidelberg four-unit M600 A24 press with Autoplate and Omnicolor control...

Ipex has added to the brightening mood within the industry, according to Picon, following its latest quarterly survey of its members, suppliers to the industry.

Emap has appointed UK print buyer Andy Franks as successor to group production director David Foakes.

Mitsubishi will become the first press manufacturer in the UK to run a press using CTP waterless plates in its showroom.

Timsons, the manufacturer of web offset book printing presses, and Fujifilm Electronic Imaging (FFEI) have both picked up the prestigious Queens Award for Enterprise.

Mail-Well has confirmed it will exit the label and printed office products markets by the end of the year if not sooner (<i>PrintWeek</i>, 13 July 2001).

Two Cornish printers claim to have formed one of the largest sheetfed printing groups in the South West after merging.

Heidelberg is cutting back the range of pre-press products that it develops and sells, exiting the scanner and low-end imagesetter market.