Printers

AMS Mailing Systems has launched Kirk-Rudy’s heavy-duty factotum envelope press, the Firejet 4C, to the UK and Ireland market.

Signbox has installed a SwissQprint Nyala 4 flatbed printer to expand its customer offering and meet increased production volumes.

Managing director Del Simmons has begun a management buyout process at creative production specialist Dayfold Print.

Web-to-print software developer and printer Print Evolved has acquired full-service print company Vinton Reprographics Ltd, which trades as Colourgraphic Arts.

Industry players have begun reacting to the momentous news from News UK and DMG Media, which plan to form a joint venture for newspaper production.

Among the new print tenders currently available are two from councils in the UK as well as a contract on the continent.

Eight Days a Week Print Solutions (EDWPS) is celebrating its new status as a B Corp company following an intense period of preparation.

Continental printer Riccobono Group has become the biggest gravure printer in Europe after completing its takeover of Germany’s TSB.

Net sales at Walstead Group were up 11% last year, but operating margins slipped in the face of “huge and volatile” increases in input costs at the pan-European business.

The National Trust’s Handbook will be printed outside the UK for the first time after Walstead Group lost the job following a tender process.