KBA has been affected by "aggressive price competition" in the web sector during the first quarter of 2002, but its revenues and pre-tax profits still increased.

Polestar Purnell has bolstered its bindery with a 2m investment in Muller Martini equipment originally destined for the groups Spanish operations.

Directors of Graphic Inline, the Leicester-based direct mail printer, are behind a new venture headed up by former Communisis key accounts staff Paul Foster and Tim Bennett.

UPM-Kymmene is to invest 157m (250m) in a new single-line recovery island at its Pietarsaari kraft pulp mill in Finland.

Digital print will become a mainstream process alongside litho, both for monochrome and colour work, and will account for 15% of the value of all print by 2007, a new report predicts.

Polestar has invested over 700,000 in two CTP installations at its Taylowe and Wheatons sites, as part of a group strategy that will see all its UK and European sites go digital by May 2003.

Fashion photographic specialist Metro Imaging has invested 75,000 in workflow and proofing equipment to provide enhanced digital services.

Print Design & Graphics (PDG), the Newcastle-based packaging printer, has ordered a Creo CTP system from the NCS Group, in a deal worth 300,000.

Consolidation in the European publication gravure industry is "inevitable" if demand does not pick up, and highly likely even if it does, according to John Dickin, Quebecor Worlds executive vice...

Troika Systems has launched a digital dotmeter that costs less than 500.