Investment & installations

Deanprint has taken on England’s first fully automated MBO K80 folder from Friedheim International as part of a years-long drive to improve efficiency.

Propack is set to take on two Riso ComColor GD9630 cutsheet inkjet printers in order to migrate 400,000 packs of monthly mono overprint work to full-colour.

Speedscreen has invested £145,000 in a new Acuity Select HS 38 from Fujifilm to “complete the missing jigsaw piece” in its kit portfolio.

The Label Makers (Labmak) has achieved a world first by integrating a Big Foot hot foiling and embossing module from AB Graphics into an MPS EF flexo press.

Precision Colour Printing (PCP) has invested more than £1.2m in a new Primera MC stitching line from Muller Martini to boost productivity and flexibility.

Graham Hunstone is spreading his wings again. The England-based Scot recently opened a regional sales hub nearly 300 miles from his print company headquarters in Lincoln.

At the end of last year the First 4 Group spent around £250,000 on a pair of new Italian-made envelope enclosing lines, a CMC 9000 and a smaller CMC 250, replacing a pair of older machines.

3 Sixty has taken on two new wide-format printers from Durst in order to bolster its output in the retail market and expand its textiles offering.

Digital printer Latcham Direct has invested £50,000 in three additional Mail Integrity Platforms (MIPs) to increase its document integrity capability.

MBM Print SCS has taken on a Horizon BQ-270V perfect binder after winning a contract to produce on-demand car manuals.