Post-press

Park Communications has invested £1.7m in two new machines from Muller Martini to enhance its in-house service offering.

Blackwell Print has installed a Duplo 600i bookletmaker in order to enhance its offering on shorter-run and low-pagination booklet jobs.

Heidelberg is to launch a brace of new units for its Gallus label presses that will add opaque white embellishing and rotary die-cutting capabilities.

Mailing and fulfilment house Tricord will enhance its cutting quality and productivity with the installation of a Polar D56 Eco guillotine next month.

Foremost Print has invested nearly £20,000 in a Rhin-O-Tuff Tornado Autopunch system to increase its productivity.

Wide-format distributor CMYUK has been appointed as the UK and Ireland distributor for Gerber’s MCT laser cutter kit.

Creasing matrix and profile rubbers manufacturer C&T Channel Matrix has introduced a new Pertinax counter sheet for carton manufacturing.

ECM Print Finishers has taken on a secondhand Watkiss SpineMaster to add square-back book production to its service offering.

Ludlow Bookbinders has invested around £30,000 in a new Polar N78 Plus guillotine less than a year after buying a secondhand Polar 92.

IPS Printed has invested in two Horizon post-press machines from Intelligent Finishing Systems (IFS) to both strengthen its PUR binding capabilities and introduce three-knife trimming.