Investment & installations

Forster (right) with the new machine and Durst UK business development manager, Peter Jones

Colorscan swaps two presses for one

Colorscan Imaging Products is targeting growth outside of its core brewing and hospitality markets, which have been heavily impacted by Covid, with a new Durst single-pass inkjet label press.

Tolley, Peeling and Bailey: more M&A could be on the cards

Precision, Prime and Proco merge and unveil £100m target

Precision Printing, Prime Group and ProCo have joined forces to create a £45m, 360 staff multisite commercial and online print group with ambitions to nudge £100m sales in three years.

Zulfiqar Ali: We decided on the Autobox for a number of reasons

Ideals UK invests to adapt

Ideals UK Packaging has invested in a new Kolbus Autobox boxmaker to boost flexibility as it adapts to the post-Covid business landscape.

The Fastbind Pureva Smart costs around £15,000

Page Visions in Fastbind first

Page Visions has installed the UK’s first Fastbind Pureva Smart semi-automatic binder as it expands its armoury of Ashgate supplied finishing kit.

HDC's new PowerSquare can handle booklets up to 224pp

HDC ups booklet capacity as schools return

Educational print specialist Homework Diary Company (HDC) has expanded its bookletmaking capacity with a third Morgana PowerSquare.

Anilox rolls can be cleaned, checked and returned for use on press within eight minutes

Parkside invests in Troika kit, develops sustainable food pack

Flexible packaging specialist Parkside Flexibles has installed a Troika AniCAM system for measuring its flexographic plates and anilox rolls at its Normanton manufacturing facility in West Yorkshire....

TJ specialises in both trade and STMA printing

Book printer TJ in £1.5m-plus spend and rebrand

Cornish book printer TJ International has rebranded as TJ Books and installed a raft of new equipment as part of a £1.5m-plus investment drive aimed to increase its capacity and flexibility.

DPL's machine arived last month

New start-up installs first Gunner in the UK

A new start-up has become the first UK user of the recently launched Gunner flatbed cutter from Shanghai Chiyan CNC Technology Co.

Press operator Kyle Brunt with Direct Labels UK new Konica Minolta

Direct Labels UK invests for flexible future

Direct Labels UK has expanded its digital firepower with a Konica Minolta AccurioLabel 230 toner label press to complement its inkjet offering and boost flexibility as it adjusts to the new business...

OPM's new Elite Multiflex is a higher spec than its existing BGM machines

OPM installs seventh BGM finisher

OPM Group has bolstered its fleet of finishing machines from Bar Graphic Machinery (BGM) after investing in a seventh device from the manufacturer.