Investment & installations

The chief executive of one of the North East's longest-established printers is stepping down after 20 years to focus on strategic aims, acquisitions and up to £4m of investment.

Print and marketing communications company Taylor Bloxham Group has shaken up its senior management and is looking at investment in direct mail, point-of-sale, fulfilment and maybe print.

The UK's first Kama ProFold 74 folder-gluer is due to be installed in the North West of England later this month to bring a sharper competitive edge on more specialist types of work.

Quantum Print and Packaging is making the move into digital packaging printing with the purchase of a Ricoh C9100.

Visual Print & Design has increased its production capacity by around 40% after investing in a Mutoh ValueJet 1324X.

Rayross Print Factory is investing in PUR binding and hopes it will result in a competitive advantage for the Liverpool company.

Skyline Bookbinders has improved throughput of work after starting up a new Meccanotecnica Aster Pro52 sewing machine.

A surge in demand for short-run digital and personalised print-on-demand work has led Hickling & Squires to install two Xerox presses.

Catford Print Centre is forecasting a growth in short-run hardback books and has installed a Fastbind system to meet the expected rise in demand.

W&G Baird has made a bumper £4m investment – backed by the Bank of Ireland - that includes a Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 106-8-P with Inpress Control 2 and a Kolbus KM600 perfect binding line.