News

SMGs new printing centre in Cambuslang Investment Park near Glasgow has been built, with newspapers set to roll off its presses by spring 2002

PressTech Controls is taking legal action against Polestar Purnell over an outstanding 134,000 debt

IBMs second-quarter net income rose by 5% to 1.4bn ($2bn) despite "extremely difficult industry conditions"

KBA and Powage Print have reached an agreement to remove the 74 Karat that Powage was beta testing

MoDo Merchants has launched Paper Football, a fantasy football league competition based on the performance of the FA Carling Premierships finest players

NexPress Solutions has appointed Paul Willems as European sales and marketing director for its Colour Business Unit

The Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI) has welcomed the news that extra newsprint reprocessing capacity is to be built in the UK

Screen is racking up sales of its PlateRite 8000 B1+ CTP system

The Image Data Group in Willerby, East Yorkshire, has been awarded a two-year contract to supply printing services to Ufi, the government-funded group set up to encourage lifelong learning

ColourScript, the London Docklands-based repro house, has invested in Agfa Apogee workflow including Apogee Create for some clients

The proposed MBO to save label specialist Burall Carwood has finally fallen through and the firm is now set to close its doors

Cradley Group is conducting a group-wide cost review that is likely to lead to redundancies

Former Express Newspapers production and operations director Paul Rudd has joined Associated Newspapers as facilities operations director

Xerox could be forced to pay up to 211m ($300m) to retired staff after a court ruled it had "incorrectly calculated" lump-sum retirement payments

Internet service provider Iteba has taken over Future Solutions (Systems), the supplier of the SolPrint MIS