Europe

Informa and rival United Business Media (UBM) are in talks to merge in a deal that would create a 3bn business publishing "supergroup".

More than 450m euro (360m) worth of software, equipment and services were sold during the first half of Drupa, according to newly released figures.

Gemini Press Group aims to increase the capacity and cut set-up times of its binding operation after signing for a Wohlenberg City 6000E binding line at Drupa

Ink giant Sun Chemical has partnered up with German company IMG Digipack to beta test its FastJet press, which is said to be the world's fastest inkjet printing machine for corrugated packaging.

M-real and Stora Enso have used Drupa to announce more paper price increases, with rises of 6-8% planned for magazine grades.

The Telegraph Media Group (TMG) is to print copies of the <i>Daily Telegraph</i> and <i>Sunday Telegraph</i> in Nantes, France.

McGowans, the Irish printer, has bought the first Xeikon 5000plus digital colour press in the UK or Ireland, after turning up at Drupa with no intent to make a purchase.

Xennia has created what it bills an "unrivalled" Xaar 1001-based industrial inkjet print platform.

Mazzucchelli has followed up buying the world's first 96-page commercial web press, worth 20m euro (16m), by committing to buy another.

German process control firm Theta System has launched spectraCon, an inline spectral measuring system that can measure colour in the image areas.

Trelleborg has completed its previously announced acquisition of MacDermid's Offset Printing Blanket business.

Book printer CPI said this year at Drupa the company has made its most "significant investment in 20 years".