Investment & installations

Print and design company Sherwin Rivers has invested around £60,000 in a Horizon SPF-200A bookletmaker with two Horizon VAC-1000 collating towers to boost its capacity and efficiency.

Anglia Labels has spent £500,000 to install a five-colour Domino N610i inkjet label press and adapt its operation to accommodate the new machine.

Multi Packaging Solutions (MPS) has installed the first Heidelberg press at its Belfast operation, a six-colour Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 106.

Emmerson Press has installed a Foliant Mercury 530SF laminator from Intelligent Finishing Systems as it looks to expand into new markets.

Colour Graphics has invested around £700,000 on new wide-format machinery to bring in new business and ramp up its turnover by 25% in the next year.

POS and instore specialist RDD Creative has brought printing in-house with the installation of an Anapurna FB2540i LED from Agfa.

Edwardthompson has bounced back from a significant restructure in 2016 with a £100,000-plus investment in a Ricoh Pro C9100 digital press and Duplo DC-645 slitter-cutter-creaser.

Minuteman Press King's Lynn has acquired printed garment company YourWear as part of a franchise-wide initiative to expand into clothing and promotional products.

Swallowtail Print has signed deals for a five-colour Speedmaster XL 106 with coater from Heidelberg and a Primera saddle-stitcher from Muller Martini, to be installed over the next few months.

Rival Colour has added lamination to its roster of in-house services with the purchase of an SRA3 Neptune laminator with foiling unit from D&K.