Commercial

Banner invests £1.5m in double iGen 150 install

Banner Managed Communication (BMC) has invested £1.5m in its Guildford production facility, replacing its two Xerox iGen3 presses with two new iGen150s, following a sharp increase in business in 2014.

Xeretec buys Bytes Xerox arm as it targets sales of £100m

Xeretec has bought £19.5m-turnover rival Bytes Document Solutions (BDS) in a deal that creates the largest Xerox reselling organisation in Europe.

Phase Print installs B2-format Ryobi 765E press

Nottingham-based design, digital and litho firm Phase Print has announced the second stage of its seven-figure investment plan.

Gask & Hawley continues reequip with new Speedmaster CX 102

Gask & Hawley (G&H Printing) has installed a new Speedmaster CX 102-5+LX as part of an ongoing reequip that has already seen it order a hybrid Goss 16pp M600 web with Kodak Prosper S20 printheads.

Star product: Delphax elan

A high-output SRA2 sheetfed printer that undercuts B2 rivals.

New-look investors

Necessity is the mother of invention, or so it’s said. This has certainly been true when it comes to raising funds for growth in recent years; it has been a lean time for securing business loans from...

Streamline owner Lockley beds in with second print firm

Former Inspired Thinking Group (ITG) director Mark Lockley, who bought Leicester-based Streamline Press last year, is eyeing further growth after completing the acquisition of local rival, John Baxter...

New Heidelberg inkjet kit to target labels, sheetfed and product decoration

Heidelberg is planning a fresh assault on the crowded digital label press space with the promise of “no more compromise” for label printers.

Heidelberg takes wraps off inkjet plans

A hybrid label press will be the first fruit of Heidelberg’s partnership with Fujifilm, and more inkjet products are on the way including “industrialised” sheetfed presses that appear likely to take...

Shinohara returns to roots with new manufacturing facility

Shinohara president Shizuo Masuda and managing director Shinzuke Kubota visited Ipex this week, and announced that the manufacturer, now owned by Hans Gronhi, would be re-establishing a Japanese...