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