Investment & installations

Digital Printed Image (DPI) has rebranded as Xchurch Digital Print (XDP) to better reflect its location and has invested £60,000 upgrading its finishing capabilities.

Central Mailing Services (CMS) has continued its year of heavy investment with a £65,000 spend on a Norpak polyprocessor and a Morgana Major folder.

Welsh commercial printer Symposium Design & Print has installed a secondhand 10-colour Komori Lithrone LS29 perfector in a bid to reduce lead times.

Northend Creative Print Solutions has invested just shy of £1m on a five-colour RMGT (Ryobi) 925 LED-UV press along with various add-ons.

Awesome Merchandise has invested around £165,000 to bolster its screen printing and digital printing facilities.

Delga Group has invested heavily in two new HP Indigo 7900s and four new Duplo 600i Booklet Systems.

Springfield Solutions has invested £1.3m to expand its premises after reaching full capacity.

Carton printer Beatus Cartons has kicked off a £4m year-long investment plan with the purchase of a seven-colour KBA Rapida 106.

Sign printer Kaydor Signs has installed a 1.6m-wide Roland VersaExpress RF-640, which its managing director said has led to a huge improvement in turnaround times.

Ashfield Printing is set to become one of the first UK firms to install a Canon Océ Colorado after taking a special trip to Fespa to put the new UVgel wide-format printer through its paces.