Investment & installations

Midland Regional Printers (MRP) has invested a six-figure sum to bring in it its first dedicated digital label press to enhance flexibility as run-lengths shorten.

Lea Printers has installed a new Horizon StitchLiner bookletmaker as it looks to adapt its production capacity to support shorter runs and faster makereadies.

Label printer PeterLynn has expanded its toner-based digital firepower with a new Screen inkjet press as it ramps up capacity to keep up with a Covid-19 driven spike in demand for digital labels.

Colorscan Imaging Products is targeting growth outside of its core brewing and hospitality markets, which have been heavily impacted by Covid, with a new Durst single-pass inkjet label press.

Precision Printing, Prime Group and ProCo have joined forces to create a £45m, 360 staff multisite commercial and online print group with ambitions to nudge £100m sales in three years.

Ideals UK Packaging has invested in a new Kolbus Autobox boxmaker to boost flexibility as it adapts to the post-Covid business landscape.

Page Visions has installed the UK’s first Fastbind Pureva Smart semi-automatic binder as it expands its armoury of Ashgate supplied finishing kit.

Educational print specialist Homework Diary Company (HDC) has expanded its bookletmaking capacity with a third Morgana PowerSquare.

Flexible packaging specialist Parkside Flexibles has installed a Troika AniCAM system for measuring its flexographic plates and anilox rolls at its Normanton manufacturing facility in West Yorkshire....

Cornish book printer TJ International has rebranded as TJ Books and installed a raft of new equipment as part of a £1.5m-plus investment drive aimed to increase its capacity and flexibility.