South america

KBA has announced a 2.5% price increase for its sheetfed offset presses, effective from 15 April 2013.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Printing & Packaging Machinery and Ryobi are planning a joint venture that could result in the marriage of their sheetfed offset press operations worldwide.

Wide format manufacturer Mimaki aims to set up a dedicated EMEA support operation before next summer in response to huge demand in the wide format market.

Kodak said its lenders were demonstrating increased confidence in the company's future after they boosted its $793m interim and exit finance facility by $37m and established "improved" terms for...

Heidelberg has exceeded its own expectations by selling over 1,000 Speedmaster SX units since the range's launch.

X-Rite will consolidate its existing range of colour measurement devices into a single series, the X-Rite eXact, from 12 November.

Prinovis posted a massive drop in profitability in its recently-filed accounts for the year to 31 December 2011 after a "change to a significant contract" led to a 10m impairment.

Schawk has launched what it claims is the industry's first cloud-based platform for objectively measuring print quality, particularly in relation to the accurate and consistent reproduction of colour.

Flint Group Flexographic Products has said it will raise the price for its photopolymer printing plates by 3% from 1 January 2013.

Muller Martini is in the process of restructuring its global operations, <i>PrintWeek</i> can exclusively reveal, and has quashed rumours that this could result in the closure of its UK headquarters.

American Industrial Partners (AIP), the private equity firm that owns narrow and mid-web flexo press manufacturer Mark Andy, has launched a bid to acquire Direct Imaging press builder Presstek.