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Offenbach, 9 February 2012. An investor solution has been found for the sheet fed business of insolvent manroland AG, just days after a sale of the web machines business to German Possehl group was announced.

Augsburg, 1st February 2012. An investor solution has been found for the sheet fed business of manroland AG in insolvency proceedings. The privately owned British engineering group, Langley Holdings plc, has emerged as the investor behind the takeover of the sheet fed printing equipment division, its production facilities (including all real estate in Offenbach), together with the international marketing organization in more than 40 countries (www.manroland.com).

Langley Holdings plc today published its Annual Report & Accounts for the year ended 31st December 2011.

Beccles, 8 December 2011. Bradman Lake, a worldwide provider of integrated packaging systems, announced its plans today for a major expansion of its manufacturing facility in Beccles, near Norwich, due to the increasing demand for packaging machinery.

Buxtehude, 1 December 2011. Claudius Peters, the German plant machinery specialist, marks ten years this month since it was acquired by British engineering conglomerate, Langley Holdings PLC from Babcock International PLC.

Buxtehude, 28 November 2011. Claudius Peters Projects GmbH (“CPP”) announced today that all disputes with KHD Humboldt Wedag GmbH (“KHD”) involving past use by KHD of CPP ETA Cooler technology, and all related issues have been successfully settled.

Osterode, 15 November 2011. Producer of high performance power protection systems and converters, Piller has been commissioned by one the largest data centre operators in Australia, NEXTDC Limited (“NEXTDC”), to supply large-scale Uniblock UBTD Diesel Rotary Uninterruptible Power Supply (DRUPS) to its new purpose-built data centre facility in Port Melbourne, Victoria.

Château du Loir, 25 October 2011. ARO announced that it has won several major orders for its latest generation 3G robot welding guns. The current order book for 3G guns now extends well into 2012, and even 2013 on some automotive projects.

Retford, 8 October 2011. Tony Langley’s British crew on Gladiator, surprise early leaders of these world championship, held on to third place overall with their third place in what proved to be the final race

Retford, 4 October 2011. Costa Smeralda, Sardinia 4 October 2011. Langley Holdings Gladiator (GBR) notches up a win and leads on day 1 of the AUDI TP52 World Championship.