Investment & installations

As well as the new Jetrix KX6U LED the facility has added new testing kit

Macfarlane signs off £200k innovation spend

Macfarlane Group has invested around £200,000 in prototyping and testing kit at its Innovation Lab to give customers an improved real-world understanding of a products’ performance and impact.

Watermans team with their new die-cutter

Watermans brings packaging post-press inhouse

Watermans Printers has brought its packaging finishing inhouse with a significant Heidelberg spend focused on streamlining production and turnarounds as it looks to grow that part of its business.

Severn's new Canon VarioPrint iX-2100 will be delivered next month

Severn secures inkjet first

Severn is set to become the first UK company to install Canon’s new VarioPrint iX-series B3 sheetfed inkjet press as it looks to return to growth out of lockdown.

CMS focussing on automation

CMS invests to change business model

Central Mailing Services (CMS) has made its second significant kit investment in weeks as it looks to replace people power with highly automated technology.

ImageData Group will roll out the new MIS across its three sites by year end

ImageData Group revamps MIS

ImageData Group has invested around £250,000 in a new Tharstern MIS as it looks to streamline its processes for the post-Covid landscape.

Group managing director David Orr (left) with Tony Clifton, group sales director in front of the Vega Altair

Fencor praises staff as it invests for growth

Fencor Packaging Group has thanked its staff for embracing the “Dunkirk spirit” during lockdown, helping it weather the Covid storm as it rounds off a two-year, £4m spend.

The 1.6m-wide EFI H1625 LED is capable of up to 42sqm/hr

Ur Print rolls out bounce back plan

Ur Print is looking to bounce back out of lockdown and regain the pre-Covid momentum that led it to invest around £100,000 to beef up its wide-format production firepower.

Room: going up in format is quite a big endeavour

Heronswood switches format to shake things up

Heronswood Press has stepped up from B2 to SRA1 with a “significant” lockdown investment in a four-colour RMGT 924 LED press in a two-for-one swap after its owner decided “doing the same thing we’ve...

Tardiff with the new Roland TrueVis VG2-640

Source Signs invests to support tighter turnarounds

Source Signs has invested in a new roll-to-roll printer/cutter as it ramps up to support retail and construction clients coming out of lockdown.

Rigid's new line was installed in March

Rigid invests £4m in new Mitsubishi

Rigid Containers has invested £4m to boost its boxmaking capacity with a new Mitsubishi Evol 100/350 line.