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Autobond will launch its new Mini 76 TPM perfecting laminator with cross-cutter and showcase a range of laminating kit at this year's Drupa.

Objective Advantage will launch version two of its automation tool Symbio at this year's Drupa, adding improved status tracking and multiple PDF handling.

Newcastle-based Elanders Hindson has overhauled its bindery by investing in a Horizon stitch-fold-trim booklet production line and a GBC Aspira 6052 laminator, which has allowed the firm to bring its...

Punch Graphix is targeting the direct marketing and transactional printing markets with its new Xeikon 8000 digital press, which it claims is twice as fast as competitor machines.

EskoArtwork has completed its acquisition of professional publishing software developer Gradual Software.

Fujifilm is to expand the production of its Brillia HD CTP plates with the addition of a new 15bn yen (75m) plate line at its manufacturing facility in Tilburg. Netherlands.

Duplo has unveiled a raft of new kit it will showcase at this year's Drupa, including the launch of its new mid-range DBM-350/T bookletmaker and the DSF-5000 High Speed Dynamic Document Sheet Feeder.

Buhrs has set out its Drupa stall by showcasing a range of developments to its envelope inserting and poly and paper wrapping systems, including the Buhrs 4000, which now offers 100% faster paper...

M-real Graphic Papers UK and Ireland has announced it will increase the price of its magazine papers by 50 (40) per tonne due to rising material costs.

Competition from UK printers and a decline in work has forced Dublin-based printer Microprint to announce it will close in April with 130 redundancies.

The business climate for the printing industry will be more stable in the coming decade than the last, though employment within the sector will still shrink, a new report has suggested.

Northampton-based print management firm DSR Group has vowed to cut the UN Children's Fund's print spend by a quarter after winning a three-year contract with the Brussels headquarters.