Investment & installations

Global packaging giant Essentra has launched its first UK-wide National Apprenticeship Programme, which will see it take on 20 apprentices over the next year.

Trade finisher Filmdie has bought new binding and trimming kit to bring PUR and EVA binding in-house as it aims to boost turnover by 25%.

Packaging pre-press specialist Reproflex 3 has installed a Zünd G3 digital cutting table to automate polymer plate production and bring plate finishing in-house.

Rising volumes of work have prompted Micropress Printers to upgrade its MIS capabilities to help keep it on track for continued growth.

Swallowmax hopes to increase productivity threefold after being the first company to commission a new B2 Komori Lithrone G29 H-UV.

Flexo packaging printer Parkside has bought two Universal X6 slitting machines, one of each for its factories in Normanton, West Yorkshire, and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

German printer Rehms Druck has become the first European company to take a Konica Minolta B2 AccurioJet KM-1 inkjet press.

Bulpitt Print has invested in a Konica Minolta AccurioPrint C2060L digital press.

Wide-format printer Gardners has invested just shy of £1m in kit as it eyes growth in its retail “heartland”.

Commercial Group’s social enterprise arm We Do Print has installed a number of new pieces of kit, including a bookletmaker and two 3D printers.