The Bank of England revealed the design for the new £5 note, its first to be printed on polymer... Adare boosted high-speed colour inkjet capacity by 50% with a £3.3m spend on Ricoh kit... Superior Creative was set to become the first company in the UK to take delivery of a Speedmaster XL 106 LE-UV, due in October... KMS Litho purchased a Heidelberg Versafire CV in a bid to more than double digital sales... GI Solutions Group signed off a circa £5m spend to move into full-width high-speed inkjet web... Infinity Partnership acquired Andrews Direct Mail Finishers and invested in wire-binding to launch new business, Andrews Infinity... Integrity Print celebrated its 100th anniversary with a £1.5m investment across its operations... Enviro Wipes, which provides cleaning products for printers, suffered a fire at its premises but was back up and running a few days later... Acanthus Press invested in a Heidelberg Versafire CV to boost its digital firepower and flexibility...  Xerox confirmed that Jeff Jacobson would lead Xerox Corporation, its document and printing business, when the company splits in two... Proskills UK ceased trading... Pagefast Print & Publishing purchased a Komori Lithrone S29 and brought all production back in-house, after flooding in December 2015...

Polestar: six months of mayhem

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