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F1 wins Sainsbury's Magazine

New Crane Publishing has awarded F1 Colour the repro contract for <i>Sainsburys Magazine</i>, after the Mitcham-based firm impressed during an assessment period

Sonoco unveils plans to buy Smurfit tube business

Sonoco has agreed a deal to purchase the UK tube and converting businesses of Smurfit UK, part of the Jefferson Smurfit Group

Papyrus to rethink sales department

Papyrus managing director Steve Thomson has said that further restructuring of the companys sales organisation is to take place, as he continues to improve the companys structure and performance

ESP Technologies get world's first Vutek PressVu

Maidstone-based display printer ESP Technologies Group has become the first site in the world to install a Vutek PressVu UV 180 flatbed UV-cured digital printer

Alderson expands into digital with F1 acquisition

The Alderson Brothers Print Group has acquired the staff and client base of F1 Digital to create its own digital print division, Alderson Digital Print

Digital print pricing advice from NexPress

NexPress has released a downloadable briefing paper on pricing digital print, to help users to estimate jobs more accurately

BCP installs Picdar to manage assets

Buckingham Colour Press is offering its customers asset management and online poster printing following the installation of a Picdar digital asset management system

CreoScitex creates twin beam Dolev 800

CreoScitex has announced three new imagesetters that will be released early next year, including a twin beam version of its B1 Dolev 800

Lennox goes NT

Scotlands largest flexo platemaker, Lennox McKinlay, has installed a BackStage digital workflow and four PackEdge workstations

Photobition sale is tied up by Service Graphics

Service Graphics has completed its buyout of the core UK Graphics businesses of Photobition from its administrative receivers

PDG enters Inner City 100 index

Print Design & Graphics has won a place on the Inner City 100 index one of only nine firms in the North East to achieve this

CreoScitex to show Staccato

CreoScitex UK is holding demonstrations of its stochastic screening technology, Staccato, at Komoris Leeds showroom on 22 and 23 January

Agfa CTP system for NewsPrinters

NewsFax has topped off its 15m investment in a new division, NewsPrinters, with an Agfa CTP system

PPS unveils web press team

MAN Roland UK agent Pershke Price Service has released details of its web press team for the UK market

Mergers reach 30-year high

Richmond Capital Partners has claimed that mergers and acquisitions in the printing industry have reached a 30-year high