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Agfa has announced the sale of its Duratex® Media business of wide and grand format substrates to Grimco , a  national dealer of  sign substrates. In addition, Grimco acquires Agfa's business relating to the purchase and resale of certain third-party manufactured wide format products such as flexible, rigid and aqueous substrates ("Media");

TORONTO—

 The Canadian printing industry has lost one of it's greatest leaders. Mary Black died on July 5th at 80. Mary pioneered women in the industry. She was one of the first female sales representatives in the industry starting  at Graphic Litho Plate in the 1960's. Open her own film house Colour Technologies in 1985. She is best known in the industry when she became Chair of Ryerson University's School of Graphic Communications Management in 1996. During her 10 years at Ryerson  she was the force behind the building of the Heidelberg Centre

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 The Federal Government will invest $40 million in Canadian Bank Note's  Nano Technologies Division. Canadian Bank Note printers of polymer bills, passports and other security documents.This will help Canadian Bank Note create more security features using nano technology. Canadian Bank Note has been helped by the fact cash has shown surprising resiliency

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TORONTO—

 John H. Galbraith  publisher of magazines and directories for the Canadian printing industry, has announced the closing of Galbraith Publishing Co., and his retirement after more than 40 years of publishing executive experience in primarily in the printing and publishing industries.

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