Presses

Wealden Advertiser is aiming to expand its publishing and printing business after investing in an end-to-end package from Heidelberg.

John Watson & Company has put up for sale its 188-year-old George Clymer Columbian Press.

Fuji will commercially launch its Jet Press 720 B2 sheetfed inkjet machine at Ipex, where it will finalise the machine's availability and price.

Closed-loop automation specialist 3TControl has made its eponymous product available in the UK.

Trade printer Minotaur aims to more than double its sales over the next two years after completing a six-month, 2.5m capital equipment investment programme.

Ipex 2010 will be the culmination of a $2.6bn (1.7bn) acquisition spree by Pitney Bowes to become an "end-to-end" solution for print and mail systems.

Heidelberg has claimed incoming orders hit their highest level for more than a year in its third quarter results, although sales were still down 23% year-on-year.

PPG Print has made its debut in the digital print arena by investing in a Xerox DocuColor 7002, a spend it anticipates will fuel turnover growth in the coming year.

Heidelberg has declined to respond to accusations by KBA sugggesting that it was selling stock at "deep discounts", but pointed to its declining net debt as evidence that this is not the case.

Despite a decline in global demand, KBA has moved from a pre-tax loss of 87.1m euro (76m) in 2008 to anticipating a post-tax profit for 2009, according to its preliminary results.