Investment & installations

Irish commercial printer Minprint has acquired signage specialist Alpine Signs and invested in an EFI Vutek GS3250LX Pro as it continues to expand its wide-format offering.

Antalis has expanded its Irish operations with the acquisition of Dublin-headquartered Swan Paper and signed off a £5m investment in its UK delivery network.

Clinical Print Finishers has invested in a B2 Horizon AFC 566FG folder to support increasing demand from customers.

Qualvis Print & Packaging has completed a £5m investment programme, initiated at Drupa 2016, with the installation of a dual digital packaging line.

Falkland Press has invested in a central cooling system from Technotrans to help minimise waste on its ‘Push to Stop’ Speedmaster XL 106.

Packaging giant Coveris has invested £3m in its Cambridgeshire-based cartonboard division.

Bakergoodchild has invested in a raft of kit to expand its transactional mail offering and has relocated to larger premises.

Lonsdale Direct Solutions has invested more than £200,000 in two pieces of kit from Duplo and a Watkiss SquareBack bookletmaker on the occasion of its 100th year of trading.

The UK’s largest Minuteman Press franchise, in Bath, has bought the UK’s first Valiani Optima V 250 flatbed cutting table.

John E Wright has invested £90,000 in two Xerox Versant 80 digital presses, bringing the number of Xerox digital machines across its branches to 10.