Duplo will focus on making its products JDF compatible in 2005 due to the massive demand for automation from customers.

Glasgow-based Ricoh Print Scotland has clinched a 600,000 contract to supply print for Inverclyde District Council.

Norprint has merged its labelling systems and equipment division in a bid to avoid confusion in the market place.

Nottingham-based Polestar Direct has invested in new continuous feed kit from Xerox.

MY Cartons is to shut its Crown Point site in Leeds with the likely loss of more than 100 jobs.

Creo UK has bolstered its team with the appointment of new engineers and has restructured sales to increase the focus on plates.

Fuji Open Workflow now integrates with Shuttleworths management information system (MIS), the companies have announced.

Service Graphics is poised to seal the first of a series of acquisitions planned for the next 12 months and has set up a print management facility.

Digital print firm 3D Digital has rounded off a 100,000 investment programme to bring finishing in-house, with a Horizon BQ-270 Touch perfect binder.

Polestar has won a second major newspaper contract for its Sheffield gravure plant.