Commercial Printing Industry : Year in Review

In another impressive deal, IWCO Direct, of Chanhassen, MN, acquired the U.S. direct mail operations of Montreal-based Transcontinental. In all, four facilities switched hands.

Surprisingly, the campaign to have antidumping and countervailing duties assessed against coated paper importers—filed in September of 2009—appears to have succeeded the second time around. By a 6-0 vote, the U.S. International Trade Commission found that certain coated paper from China and Indonesia had been dumped and subsidized, resulting in injury to the domestic paper industry and its employees. Interests representing the importing concerns planned to appeal.