Commercial

Boise, Idaho based Alexander Clark Printing has added a six-color 29" Komori LSX629 to both boost productivity and expand its footprint in categories such as packaging.

International Greetings is investing £6m in a major switch from gravure to flexo printing at its main Welsh giftwrap production facility.

Midland-based printing firm Emmerson Press recorded its best ever quarter at the start of this year, with 1m in sales.

Less than six months after it was acquired by private equity firm American Industrial Partners (AIP), Presstek is going through a restructuring that includes a number of redundancies.

Geoff Neal Litho has upgraded its factory, finishing and workflow in advance of the arrival of a Heidelberg XL 106-6+L.

Surrey-based commercial printer Ormside Press will upgrade its CTP and workflow systems next month following the install in January of a Heidelberg CD102 B1 five-colour press, plus coater.

Wolverhampton printers Lion FPG has invested in a Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 75-5+L litho press which it will install this month.

Many things have changed at Mastercolour over the past three decades, but the firm's love of KBA presses is not one of them

Informa Exhibitions decision to 'refocus' Ipex 2014 as a digital and cross media event has led to one of the largest remaining litho exhibitors to threaten to pull out of the show.

Lincolnshire-based Cupit Print has seen an increase in business after investing in its largest press to date, a B2 Ryobi 785E installed in December 2012.