Investment & installations

Print finisher Larkbeare Services has installed an MBO K760/4S-KTL folding machine with stacker delivery system to help increase performance in its wire binding and PUR binding facilities.

Digital and litho printer Loop Print has taken delivery of a five-colour B2 Komori Lithrone S29 with coater, its first Komori machine.

YM Group has made a further major expansion of its web offset capacity with the purchase of the 64pp short-grain press from the former Polestar Sheffield site.

Card and invitation printer The Print Factory has invested £200,000 in a wide variety of kit, including a Xerox Versant 80 digital press, a Duplo DC-745 slitter-cutter-creaser and a Multigraf folder.

Trade printer Swanline Print Group has launched single-faced products, including a new flute profile for the UK corrugated industry, following its installation of Pivab rewinder technology.

Print and mail specialist DST UK has invested around £5m in new machinery for its Dagenham, Essex site in a bid to accelerate its migration to inkjet.

Flyer Press has replaced a Duplo System 5000 Booklet System with a new 600i model to boost its speed and reliability.

Printed carton supplier Harrison Packaging has purchased the new EFI Packaging Suite version 4.

Adare Secure Essential Communications (SEC), part of the Adare Group, has invested £400,000 on a new bookletmaker and two more pieces of post-press equipment.

Trade finisher Cliftons has purchased a new Perfecta Premium Line N 115 guillotine.