Investment & installations

Help for heroes as print steps up in March

Unsurprisingly, just as the impact of Covid-19 was beginning to be felt in the UK, so was its effect on print and while some battened down the hatches, others, like Prime Group, stepped up to the...

Print on the box in April

One media channel embraced another as printers secured their 15-minutes of fame, while former Polestar execs, perhaps less willingly, find themselves in the Printweek spotlight again.

Vivian: "Our customers are going to benefit from us being more efficient"

ImageData Group continues mega investment drive

ImageData Group is continuing a major programme of investment in new kit that has totalled more than £500,000 so far and included new machines for all three of its production sites.

The Horizon CRF-362 was installed in October

Emmerson Press streamlines with Horizon spend

Emmerson Press has invested in a Horizon CRF-362 creaser folder to streamline its digital print production and support increased flexibility.

Transformative times

While the word ‘pandemic’ has dominated our lives in 2020, another p-word ‘pivot’ has also come to the fore as print businesses switched up their offering

Brough: "The new kit is quicker, providing us faster turnaround times"

Bakergoodchild continues growth strategy with £2m-plus spend

Bakergoodchild has invested more than £2m in a raft of new equipment as it presses forward with its 2021 Growth Strategy.

Nangle: Investment has doubled the enclosing capacity at Tottenham

MBA Group reveals mega 2020 Böwe Systec spend

MBA Group invested £1.4m in new machinery from Böwe Systec to increase its capacity and improve its fulfilment process and efficiency.

Banbury Litho can now produce more wide-format work in-house

Banbury Litho enhances wide-format arm

Banbury Litho has bolstered its in-house wide-format ops with the installation of a Mimaki JFX200-2513 EX flatbed UV printer and an Esko Kongsberg X24 Edge digital cutter with i-Cut software.

Three Grafisk Maskinfabrik machines have gone in at the company's expanded premises

AA Labels enters luxury pack market with £400k spend

AA Labels has invested £400,000 in three new machines from Grafisk Maskinfabrik with an aim to make luxury labelling more accessible to SMEs across a range of sectors.

RA Smart supplied Paul Bristow's new HP Stitch S300

Paul Bristow buys HP Stitch for face masks pivot

Printed textiles manufacturer Paul Bristow Associates has taken on an HP Stitch S300 to enable it to produce face masks adorned with its customers’ favourite artworks.