Printers

European gravure print group CirclePrinters has appointed Maarten Coerman to its group management board as chief operating officer.

Unite has said that Wyndeham Group's decision to make 86 employees redundant at its Heron subsidiary "rubs salt into the wound" after staff agreed a pay cut to avoid job losses.

Goodhead Group is set to make a major announcement to staff tomorrow morning (5 January).

Wyndeham Group has entered into consultation with 86 employees at its Wyndeham Heron facility.

Bruce Sharpless, the former chairman of Taylor Bloxham who spent 70 years with the print business, has passed away aged 87.

The PrintWeek India team visits Sujilee in the picture-perfect town of Kollam (between Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi) and understands how the plant provides five-star service to buyers in the state

In economically softer times, funding was easy to secure and a business plan was often a much less formal document.

Butler Tanner & Dennis has installed a Technotrans beta.c combination unit to cool down the company's Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 162 press.

Hologram Manufacturers Association of India's (HOMAI) annual Holopack Holoprint Conference has begun in Las Vegas, USA and will stretch over the next two days until 11 November 2011.

Avantika Printers, which calls itself as a major believer of Canon Océ products, has bought India's first OcéVarioprint 6160 Ultra line mono-colour press.