Print buying

Polestar: one year on

A year on from the collapse of Polestar, UK printers remain hopeful of winning back some of the work that migrated to the continent – and remained there – after the group’s failure.

StackaWraps boosted by high-profile signings

StackaWraps has secured investment from two leading wide-format industry figures as it looks to steer its innovative shaped fabric POS and film props business through its next period of growth.

Inaugural Shipley Wayzgoose planned

A ‘northern wayzgoose’ is being organised over the summer by two Yorkshire-based exponents of letterpress printing and fine binding.

New-look Stones Ashford takes shape

Stones Ashford has parted company with two former directors of Headley Brothers.

Snap election call means boost for print

Theresa May’s decision to call a snap general election should provide a welcome short-term boost for the printing industry.

Short-grain now on-stream at YM Chantry

The revamped YM Chantry site is now fully up and running, having commissioned the Goss Sunday 5000 64pp short-grain press at the site.

'Finishing 4.0' world first for Bell & Bain

Bell & Bain is to dramatically increase bindery throughput with a £1m-plus investment in a bespoke Muller Martini solution that will be a world first.

Coup for Heidelberg as it signs up Landa customer

Heidelberg has scored something of a coup, by signing up a packaging printer originally named as one of Landa’s beta sites to be a pilot user of its Primefire 106 B1 inkjet press.

New Adare International MD looking to place UK business ‘back on the map’

Adare International’s new UK managing director Tracy Ellison is looking to boost the print manager’s UK operation, after the company was split into three segments at the end of last year.

Snap merges with RNB

Leeds-based Snap Print Management has merged with its sister company, mail specialist RNB Group, and will now operate as the group's print management arm.