Business

Latcham Direct bolsters document integrity capability

Digital printer Latcham Direct has invested £50,000 in three additional Mail Integrity Platforms (MIPs) to increase its document integrity capability.

Kolbus accelerates move into packaging with Autobox acquisition

Kolbus Group has acquired UK kit manufacturer Autobox Machinery as it continues its move into packaging.

Leach doubles print capacity with £500k spend

Large-format graphics specialist Leach has invested £500,000 in a new Durst Rhotex 325 printer to double the capacity of its Yorkshire factory to a 500sqm/hr print rate.

Taylor Bloxham secures colour quality accreditation

Print and marketing communications company Taylor Bloxham Group has been awarded the BPIF Colour Quality Management Scheme certification for ISO 12647:2013.

Pair jailed over fake passports and ID cards

Two men have been sent to jail for running a criminal business making and supplying false passports and ID documents.

Unite calls off strike action at Communisis Crewe

Strike action at the Communisis cheque printing operation in Crewe has been called off after Unite members and management settled a dispute over pay.

James Cropper warns on profits

Cumbrian papermaker James Cropper has warned that the net impact of the sustained current high pulp price is expected to hit its pre-tax profits for the current year by £2m more than initially...

Automation set to create more jobs than it eliminates

Printers are ushering in automation as the World Economic Forum (WEF) speaks of a ‘robot revolution’ that could see machines and algorithms carry out more tasks than humans by 2025 but may also create...

Don’t panic over the Brexit bump

This month marks 10 years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers sparked the global financial crisis. Happy anniversary.

The printer’s view of Brexit: two years on, six months out

In the small hours of 24 June 2016, seemingly almost a lifetime ago, David Dimbleby made an announcement to a stunned nation: “At 20 minutes to five, we can now say, the decision taken in 1975 by this...