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Graphic Packaging International (GPI) hosted the grand opening of its new Global Innovation Centre in Bardon, Leicestershire last Friday (10 July).

Firstan Packaging has become the first UK packaging printer to become a pressSign Offset Standard (POS) certified printer.

WAE Group has installed the UK's first Longier Hunter FP-3750 LED flatbed printer to produce high-quality work quickly and offer user-friendly operation.

Commercial printer PWPFS Print & Design has installed PressSave and PressProfiler software to help it save on ink costs and makeready times.

Abacus Print will install a Linoprint CV digital printer later this month to add value to jobs and enable it to increase its margins.

Chancellor George Osborne has announced plans to introduce a national ‘living wage’ in his Emergency Budget speech earlier today (8 July).

News UK has renewed major contracts to print both the London Evening Standard and Financial Times newspapers.

Independent paper merchant Premier Paper Group has become a UK stockist of Lumi papers.

Digital and wide-format printer Rayprographics has upgraded its bindery after investing in a Fastbind Pureva XT combined PUR and EVA perfect binder.

Music magazine NME is set to become a free publication in an attempt to reverse its steadily declining readership, and increase circulation from around 15,000 to 300,000.

PCL Digital has bought two pieces of Duplo equipment to boost its productivity and increase its in-house service offering with the aim to increase turnover by 20 to 30% in the next 12 months.

Xerox has been awarded a three-year £40m managed print services contract by the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA).