Investment & installations

Direct and hybrid mailing firm CFH Docmail has installed a brand-new Canon VarioPrint iX3200 at its Radstock site.

Label and sticker printer Kustom Design Printing (KDP) has won the Medium Business of the Year award at the Doncaster Business Awards.

Newspaper printer Sharman and Co has taken on a Horizon AFV-566FKT fully automated folder to help deliver greater application flexibility.

Bluetree Group has ordered a second B1 Landa S10P press to support activity at its Route 1 Print and Kingsbury Press subsidiaries.

Swindon-based Handel Group, parent company to ESP Colour, has acquired the three companies of Goldcrest Group, doubling its digital business and adding wide-format and label printing to its roster.

Pontypridd’s Big Bang Print is diving into the label market with a brand-new Konica Minolta press, while simultaneously opening up massive room for growth in its digital carton production.

A French online printer has installed the world’s first post-beta Ricoh Pro Z75 B2 sheetfed inkjet press.

Micropress has put Canon inkjet technology at the centre of its £3.5m digital printing revamp.

Lesters Packaging boss Billy Hutchinson will soon add ‘pub proprietor’ to ‘packaging printer’, after investing over £1m in transforming a derelict pub.

DS Smith has installed a high-spec Bickers Gluejet gluing plotter at its Ely operation – the sixth Gluejet device at the site.