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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.