Printing

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

Polestar has announced plans for a £50m spend on new web offset kit, including the first 96pp commercial web presses in the UK.

Rapid Repro and Design has invested in a Ricoh C901 S1 digital printer to install in its new Tottenham facility.

Social media has proved the perfect sales tool for UK manufacturer Autobond after it sold two machines to an American publisher through LinkedIn.

Tidewater Direct has installed a new six-unit Sunday 2000 press at its Centreville, MD facility as it targets greater market share in the high-quality color direct mail and inserts business.

Royal Mail's competitors could face regulatory intervention in future if Ofcom considers them to be posing a "material threat to the provision of the universal service".

Talks between Unite and management of Artisan Press are taking place after union members rejected new changes to working conditions.

Lanarkshire-based OPG has used one of its three HP latex printers to produce a range of interior graphics for new restaurant Cafe Eataliano in Hamilton.

A company born out of the ashes of dissolved litho printers Heronsgate four years ago is on track for 6m sales this financial year.

Surrey-based commercial printer Ormside Press will upgrade its CTP and workflow systems next month following the install in January of a Heidelberg CD102 B1 five-colour press, plus coater.

The government has outlined its plan to boost SME lending via the state-owned Business Bank, which will become the vehicle through which all government finance initiatives are administered.

A Trafford printer has invested in a Tharstern Primo management information system (MIS) which it expects will save thousands of pounds and streamline production.