Exel, the Kent-based used equipment dealer, is to launch a new logo and corporate identity at Drupa.

Workers at Birmingham-based Euro Packaging have voted to suspend industrial action, while the GPMU holds talks with management over possible redundancies.

GBC is poised to enter the flexible packaging market with a three-layer production process to be launched at Drupa.

Sheffield is looking increasingly likely to be Polestars favoured site for its greenfield gravure site, while Liverpool has emerged as a possible choice for Arvatos proposed UK gravure plant.

Ipswich printer Five Castles Press is under new ownership after a management buy in/buy out deal.

Industry sources have given strong indications that the proposed Sheffield site for Polestars greenfield gravure plant will emerge as the favoured choice.

Xerox has posted strong results for the first quarter of 2004 with production colour installs growing by 27%.

Direct mail specialist Vertis is to invest 2m in finishing equipment for its Leicester and Croydon sites.

Duplo International has struck a deal to market a range of digital short-run bookbinding machinery for the first time in the UK.

Enfocus has launched a new version of Instant PDF, which makes accurate PDF creation simpler.