Presses

Bell & Bain acquires warehouse, plans £4m investment

One of Scotland’s oldest printing firms, Bell & Bain, has bought a warehouse for almost £500,000 and is looking to buy £4m of equipment on top of a £5m spending blitz over the last year.

Goss enters consultation with UK workforce

Goss International has confirmed it is to cut its Lancashire-based UK workforce by 50% as part of its ongoing global restructure.

Heidelberg to phase out GTO 52

Heidelberg has announced it will phase out production of its Printmaster GTO 52 from March 2014 as it "realigns its small format-product portfolio".

KBA downgrades sales target and issues profit warning

KBA has warned that it will likely make a full-year loss ahead of its third-quarter results announcement on 11 November.

Westdale Press returns to Heidelberg for twin B1 press order

Westdale Press has reversed its high-profile order for a KBA Rapida 106, announced at last year's Drupa, and returned instead to incumbent supplier Heidelberg for two new 10-colour B1 perfectors.

Law Design and Print installs secondhand SM 74

Law Design and Print has beefed up its B2 output for Chinese menus after installing a Heidelberg SM 74 long perfector.

Landa forecasts market growth in white paper

Landa Corporation has forecast 4.5% annual market growth through to 2016 for one of its core markets as it gears up for next year's launch of its first nanographic printing press, the S10FC, in Q4...

Alpha Colour revs up all-round performance with new Speedmaster

A drive to improve print volumes, response times and environmental sustainability has prompted Alpha Colour to buy a new four-colour Heidelberg press.

Banbury Litho invests in XL 75 to cut waste

Family business Banbury Litho is to take delivery of a Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 75-5+L this November to minimise start-up waste and increase its volume of sellable sheets.

Packaging printer installs world's first Océ InfiniStream

The world's first liquid toner-based Océ InfiniStream digital press has been installed at the German packaging printer Joh Leupold.