Investment & installations

Print and marketing company Rethink CMYK - Garnett Dickinson’s former digital operation GD Digital – is aiming for a 30% 12-month trade boost following a £500,000-plus investment.

Commercial printer Gpex has invested around £300,000 in a range of new wide-format print and finishing equipment to enable it to target new markets.

Book manufacturer TJ International has restructured its operations and appointed two manufacturing and book professionals to its newly formed executive team.

Opus Trust Marketing is overhauling its cut-sheet colour printer capacity with a £500,000 investment in five new machines.

Delta Print and Packaging chairman Terry Cross has been awarded an OBE in the Queen's New Year's Honours list for services to the economy and voluntary service to the community in Northern Ireland.

The Bath-based branch of Minuteman Press has invested in a Xerox 1000i to enable it to take advantage of gold, silver and clear inks.

Peter Scott Printers has boosted its production capability after buying a secondhand B1 Heidelberg CD 102 six-colour press.

John Brailsford Printers is celebrating its 30th year in business with a £220,000 Xerox and Schneider Senator investment.

Graphica Display has become the first UK business to install an Agfa Jeti Mira UV-inkjet flatbed printer.

All the business news, from acquisitions to liquidations, investments to divestments, from a year in the industry.