Europe

Bavarian manufacturing firm IBS has acquired the former Plauen factory and assets of Manroland AG from its administrators, for an undisclosed sum.

EFI's SmartSign Analytics (SSA) tool for monitoring and analysing the consumer response to individual signs could be "a licence to print money" for early adopters from the signange sector.

Less than six months after it was acquired by private equity firm American Industrial Partners (AIP), Presstek is going through a restructuring that includes a number of redundancies.

Drupa organiser Messe Dusseldorf and Chinese print association PEIAC will hold the first of a new annual 'functional printing' one-day conference at the China Print 2013 trade fair.

Agfa has ceased to develop its flagship flatbed inkjet press, the M-Press, which was originally developed as a joint venture with screen-print press manufacturer Thieme.

Durst and EFI Vutek's on-going intellectual property dispute covering printing with white ink continues to rumble on, with Durst winning the latest round.

Austrian POP and POS printer Arian has been revealed as the first European installation of Fujifilm's B2 digital press, the Jet Press 720.

Xerox has launched the iGen4 Diamond, an upgrade to the iGen4 cut-sheet colour digital press, which improves uptime and productivity.

Sappi Fine Paper Europe and Innovia Films have completed a joint project to produce compostable flexible packaging manufactured from renewable resources.

Goss France has entered redressement judiciare, the French equivalent of administration, according to local media reports.

Goss International has confirmed that its French subsidiary, Goss International France, has entered insolvency proceedings.

Goss France could be placed in redressement judiciare, the French equivalent of administration, tomorrow morning according to local media reports.