Companies & suppliers

Zund has appointed Spandex as the authorised UK reseller of its S3 and G3 range of wide-format flatbed cutters.

Almost two thirds of UK manufacturers are optimistic for growth in the first half of 2013, according to the latest Barometer survey from the MAS (Manufacturing Advisory Service).

All bar two regional daily newspapers suffered a drop in circulation in the six months to December 2012 compared to the previous year, recent ABC figures show.

Promail has added the iMM i6 range of polywrapping machines to its reseller arsenal after signing an exclusive UK distribution agreement with manufacturer International Mailroom Machines (IMM).

Rigid Containers, part of the VPK Group, has revealed details of a new production facility set to open in Somerset in April to service its South West customers.

AG/CAD has moved into wide-format printer sales and will launch the Dyss Apollo Hybrid GH2200 machine at Sign & Digital UK in April alongside a new version of its KaseMake software.

A firm called Mambo Direct has been set up at the same registered office as Argall Solutions, which traded as Alito Color Group, after it collapsed earlier this month.

Gary Peeling, managing director of Precision Printing, has said its in-house-developed workflow, Oneflow, will allow printers to profit from the "only growth market in print" as he prepares to license...

Commercial printers that applied to the Enterprise Finance Guarantee (EFG) scheme have received an average of around 90,000 each in government-backed funding.

Kern's desktop self-mailer, the Kern Office, launched at the beginning of this month and is the mailing solutions provider's smallest white paper solutions machine.