Investment & installations

Irish commercial printer Cashin Print has invested in a two-colour Heidelberg Speedmaster SX 102 B1 press ahead of a planned extension to its 1,394sqm premises at the beginning of next year.

Connect Packaging has installed its first digital press as part of a £750,000 investment backed by its new parent CBS Packaging, which acquired the Essex-based converter in December 2013.

Irongate has invested in additional digital print firepower from Xerox to expand its personalised product range, including photo gifting.

Welsh chocolate manufacturer Michton has opened a new digitally printed packaging subsidiary called Personalised Printed Products.

Cornwall-based commercial printer St Austell Printing Company has invested in a Technotrans alpha r.10 water treatment unit to boost the productivity of its presses.

The development of hover boards and flying cars may not seem to have much in common with commercial printers taking on packaging printing, but there is a key similarity: for years all three have been...

Retail display specialists B-Print & Display Group has invested in an HP Scitex FB10000 and aims to order a second in the next few weeks.

Commercial litho and digital printer J Thomson Colour Printers has made "a significant six-figure investment" in two new MBO folding machines, a K8-RS and a T800, to "almost double" its folding...

Irish commercial printer KPW Print has invested around €40,000 (£31,300) in a Polar 92 guillotine to increase its capacity and efficiency.

The prime minister David Cameron hailed the "business success story" that is his local constituency printer Fine Print, on a visit to the West Oxfordshire firm earlier this month.