Europe

Interpublic Group (IPG) subsidiary Orion Holdings has partnered with Pitney Bowes to create Orion Printing, a managed print services provider for IPG agencies and their clients worldwide.

Heidelberg has hailed its "strongest start" to a financial year since 2008 after recording a surge in incoming orders in its preliminary first quarter results.

HH Global has recorded a 4.4% rise in turnover to just shy of 100m in its accounts for the year ended 31 March 2012.

UPM has sold its Kajaani sawmill to wood processing company Plkky Oy in Finland.

The UK arm of continuous feed digital press manufacturer Nipson SAS is up for sale after being placed into administration in May.

The administrators' final report revealed the sheetfed and web arms of Manroland's UK operations were sold for 645,131 and 40,412 respectively, while the consumables unit was closed.

German paper manufacturer Gmund has introduced The Kiss, a new addition to its lakepaper range for applications such as letters, books, invitations and greetings cards.

Flint Group Flexographic Products will launch its latest flexo plate, nyloflex Ace New, in Western Europe and America next month.

Kodak's acrimonious split from former Versamark OEM ink manufacturer, Cincinnati-based Collins Ink, has taken another twist after Collins announced that it would be entering the printhead refurbishing...

Nottingham-based finishing equipment supplier TCS has signed a deal to supply the Spanish manufacturer's laminator range for the first time in the UK.

While more than 100m of Drupa orders, mainly for batch-produced sheetfed offset presses, will take time to impact, preliminary half-year figures reveal overall group order intake is down 114m.