Heidelbergs management hopes that Mondays planned strike by members of the German metalworkers union IG Metall can be averted, but is confident that lead times will not be affected.

Agfa has reported much-improved figures for the first quarter of 2002, as the benefits of its Horizon restructuring plan begin to come through.

Agfa has reported much-improved figures for the first quarter of 2002, as the benefits of its Horizon restructuring plan begin to come through.

Svecia Screen Printings owner (SSC), Traction, has set up a new company to buy the assets of SSC, which have been up for sale since February.

Kall Kwik has launched its Digital Business Centres concept, DBC, and opened the first one in York.

Light is breaking through the economic murk, says UPM-Kymmene, which is hoping for an upturn in Europe and the US to improve on a 41% drop in profits.

Smaller suppliers are being forced to choose between two domestic exhibitions in spring 2003 after Print UKs organiser confirmed that the show will be held at Birminghams NEC just six weeks before...

Printing equipment and supplies from the US could be hit by a 30% rise in import duties if punitive measures relating to the steel dispute between Europe and the US are approved.

Warners Midlands, the Lincolnshire-based magazine printer, is hoping to boost its turnover by 5m to 27m with the addition of a Heidelberg four-unit M600 A24 press with Autoplate and Omnicolor control...

Production efficiencies and the need to expand printers traditional relationships with customers were among the themes at Comprint in Lisbon this week.