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Out-of-pocket workers at Global MP Mailing can apply to The Printing Charity’s hardship fund for financial assistance.

Book manufacturer TJ International has upgraded its post-press facilities with a £3.5m investment in Kolbus bindery equipment.

Polestar owner Sun European Partners has confirmed that one of its affiliates has purchased River Group and expanded on its plans for the customer publisher to work in partnership with Polestar.

Investcorp, the Bahrain-listed private equity group that owned Polestar from 1998 to 2006, has acquired Netherlands-based screen and digital printing equipment manufacturer SPGPrints Group.

An affiliate of Sun European Partners, owner of Polestar Group, is understood to be on the verge of acquiring the contract publishing business River Group.

Indonesian pulp and paper firm APRIL has refuted claims by Greenpeace that it is turning High Conservation Value (HCV) forest in its concession on the island of Pulau Padang into a plantation.

There’s change at the top of one of the UK’s biggest print groups – St Ives chief executive Patrick Martell is leaving the firm after 34 years to join £1.1bn events and business information giant...

Staff at Global MP Mailing remain unpaid and in a state of limbo, and have appealed to PrintWeek readers for help.

Kingsdown Printing has invested close to £500,000 in two new Ricoh presses and Duplo finishing equipment to enhance its digital and web-to-print capabilities.

Scottish label manufacturer CV Labels has invested in a second Nilpeter FB-2500 UV-flexo press to keep up with increased demand for pressure-sensitive labels.

Midlands-based MX Display has ordered the UK's first EFI Vutek GS3250LX with the manufacturer's "cool cure" LED curing and 7pL UltraDrop technology.

Greenpeace has called on companies including International Paper, 3M and US-based retailer Costco to join a boycott of products manufactured by Indonesia's second largest pulp and paper company APRIL.

Kiian Specialty Inks has launched a new range of PVC-free plastisol inks for textile printing that are that said to produce a similar finish to water-based inks.

Specle has achieved 100% coverage for UK regional newspapers after adding all of Trinity Mirror Group's regional titles to its online ad spec database.

Kingswood Steele has purchased a DB-280 perfect binder, DPB-500 perfect binder and Challenge CMT-130 book trimmer from Duplo to improve its speed and efficiency.