Investment & installations

Just as the coronavirus situation has kept us all apart, it’s also served to bring people and organisations together.

Aztec Label is set to invest a significant six-figure sum in an additional factory unit to boost its footprint by 25% as part of an ambitious post-Covid growth plan.

Macfarlane Group has signed off another summer investment, this time a £700,000 spend at its Scottish label business.

Macfarlane Group has invested around £200,000 in prototyping and testing kit at its Innovation Lab to give customers an improved real-world understanding of a products’ performance and impact.

Watermans Printers has brought its packaging finishing inhouse with a significant Heidelberg spend focused on streamlining production and turnarounds as it looks to grow that part of its business.

Severn is set to become the first UK company to install Canon’s new VarioPrint iX-series B3 sheetfed inkjet press as it looks to return to growth out of lockdown.

Central Mailing Services (CMS) has made its second significant kit investment in weeks as it looks to replace people power with highly automated technology.

ImageData Group has invested around £250,000 in a new Tharstern MIS as it looks to streamline its processes for the post-Covid landscape.

Fencor Packaging Group has thanked its staff for embracing the “Dunkirk spirit” during lockdown, helping it weather the Covid storm as it rounds off a two-year, £4m spend.

Ur Print is looking to bounce back out of lockdown and regain the pre-Covid momentum that led it to invest around £100,000 to beef up its wide-format production firepower.