Companies & suppliers

Commercial business Stones Printers has cut its overtime bill by investing in a CCM78 M5 guillotine to replace its 25-year-old predecessor.

The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has published its GDP forecasts for 2013 and 2014 and called for effective measures, in tomorrow's Autumn Statement, to help small business.

Kent-based Wallace Print has added an Oce Arizona 250 GT digital flatbed to its two Fuji Acuity Advance machines as part of a 100,000 investment.

Stirland Paterson apprentice Craig Clifford beat competitors from Warwick Printing, Hartgraph and Phase Print to win gold in the print section of The Skills Show, on 17 November.

MPG Books Group is in consultation with more than 70 staff as it prepares to move its litho printing to a new facility in Cambridge.

ESP Colour has smashed its own global productivity record after achieving 498 makereadies and 2.1m impressions at an average 17,108 sheets per hour in one 168 hour week on its XL 105.

Océ and Manroland Web Systems have teamed up to develop a digital printing and finishing system for newspaper and book production.

Wiltshire-based Superior Creative, the litho and digital printer, has invested hundreds of thousands in a Diecut Goldline, which the manufacturer claims will be the biggest in the world.

Sheffield-based Rose Signs & Engraving has spent 9,000 on an Epson Surecolor S30600, as part of a 16,000 total spend at the Spandex open house, earlier this month.

Messe Dusseldorf has pulled the plug on next year's digi:media trade show, blaming cancellations, reductions in floor space and lack of commitment from prospective exhibitors.