Investment & installations

Since April this year Emmerson Press in Kenilworth has been running the UK’s first and only Fujifilm sheetfed B2 inkjet press.

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Fine Print Services has invested just under £1m in a five-colour LE-UV Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 75, its first move into LE-UV.

Bristol-based BrunelPrint has claimed to have become the first printer in the country to offer carbon neutral printing for no extra cost to all customers on all jobs.

Print finisher Larkbeare Services has installed an MBO K760/4S-KTL folding machine with stacker delivery system to help increase performance in its wire binding and PUR binding facilities.

Digital and litho printer Loop Print has taken delivery of a five-colour B2 Komori Lithrone S29 with coater, its first Komori machine.

YM Group has made a further major expansion of its web offset capacity with the purchase of the 64pp short-grain press from the former Polestar Sheffield site.

Card and invitation printer The Print Factory has invested £200,000 in a wide variety of kit, including a Xerox Versant 80 digital press, a Duplo DC-745 slitter-cutter-creaser and a Multigraf folder.

Trade printer Swanline Print Group has launched single-faced products, including a new flute profile for the UK corrugated industry, following its installation of Pivab rewinder technology.

Print and mail specialist DST UK has invested around £5m in new machinery for its Dagenham, Essex site in a bid to accelerate its migration to inkjet.