-Goss International said it would transfer certain undisclosed administrative and operational activities from its Bolingbrook, Ill., headquarters to former Heidelberg offices in Dover and Durham, N.H. Goss said about 100 positions would be eliminated in the move, which will take place over the next several months. It will, however, maintain sales, engineering, technical support and other administrative functions in the Chicago suburb. Goss employs 4,300 people worldwide, with about 1,400 of those workers based in the United States.

-Nela bought the punch and bender business Agfa purchased with its 2004 acquisition of Lastra America Corp. No financial terms were disclosed, but Agfa said its former punch bender unit posted $1.6 million in revenues last year, including sales, spare parts and maintenance.  

-News Limited Group in Australia purchased five blanket cylinder cleaning systems from Baldwin Technology Co. Inc. The publisher plans to place the Impact cleaning systems on MAN Roland Inc. GeoMAN presses in its Sydney print facility.

-Inland Newspaper Machinery Corp. said it will have completed 11 installations of reconditioned or reconfigured press equipment by this summer. The Scottsbluff (Neb.) Star-Herald and the Montrose (Colo.) Daily Press are among newspapers in which reconditioned presses were installed. The Bureau County Republican in Princeton, Ill., and The Union in Grass Valley, Calif., had their presses reconfigured, Inland said.

-Web Press Corp. said its fourth quarter sales included seven Quad-Stack color printing units as the company met increasing demand for its presses. Gannett Offset in Springfield, Va., Columbia Gorge Press in Hood River, Ore., and printers in Tracy, Calif., Thunder Bay, Ontario, and South Holland, Ill., each purchased a Web Press unit to bolster their color capabilities. 2005 sales should exceed 2004 sales, the company said.

-Fuji Photo Film Co. purchased British ink manufacturer Sericol Group Ltd. for $230 million. Fuji said it purchased the company to expand into other areas of industrial printing. Sericol produces inks for screen printing and wide format digital industrial inkjets.

One year ago

The News-Press in Fort Myers, Fla., plans to add four shaftless Uniliner four-high towers from Goss International Corp.

Five years ago

The Austin (Texas) American-Statesman places an order for a KBA press.

10 years ago

Randy Seidel is named chief executive officer of GMA.

15 years ago

The Toronto Star orders six 12-unit presses from MAN Roland Inc., which includes 50 offset printing couples.