Printers

Bluetree: mask and print ops now individual trading entities

Bluetree separates mask wing

Bluetree Group has implemented a new corporate structure and holding company to reflect the new shape of the business since it began making surgical masks.

Paul and Emma Marsh opened the Basingstoke facility this week

THEMPC opens UK digital print studio and European ops hub

THEMPC has opened a digital printing studio, production facility and warehouse in Hampshire and an operations hub in Munich, Germany that will support its EU customers.

Pindar Scarborough: five web presses and a big bindery

Industry awaits Walstead decision on what's next for YM web kit

Walstead’s deal to buy at least seven web offset presses from the collapsed YM web division has resulted in feverish industry speculation about what happens next.

Scanlon: customer demand and future volumes are key

Walstead seals deal for YM web assets

Walstead Group has acquired most of the assets of YM Group’s shuttered web offset businesses in administration – and could reboot one of the factories if customer support makes it viable.

Access to Whitehall Park site was blocked

Drama at Lettershop as landlord takes charge

Events at troubled YM Group took a dramatic turn over the bank holiday weekend when the landlord repossessed Lettershop’s Leeds site.

Andrew Ainsworth was found guilty of conspiring to produce counterfeit currency. Image: Kent Police

Fourth member of £12m counterfeit currency group jailed

A fourth member of an organised crime group has been jailed for conspiring to supply more than £12m of counterfeit banknotes.

Blog: Tangled web powerplay

Jo Francis wonders what will happen next in the latest saga involving UK web offset printers.

Flint: costs have to be passed on if supplies are to be maintained

Flint brings in monthly surcharge

Flint Group’s Commercial Publication Web (CPW) division has announced that it is introducing a monthly surcharge for web offset printers worldwide due to “hyperinflation” of ink costs.

ARC Document Solutions CEO Suri Suriyakumar (centre) visited in February to see the fit-out of the new space

Arc invests in new Dartford site

Arc-UK Technologies has moved manufacturing from London to a modern new facility in Dartford where it plans to expand and push forward its ambitions to be carbon neutral.

The C12000 runs 50% faster than Swallowtail's old C6100

Swallowtail sharpens edge with KM investment

Commercial printer Swallowtail Print has expanded its competitive range with a new Konica Minolta AccurioPress C12000 digital printer.