Equipment manufacturers

Kodak’s Brad Kruchten is to retire later this month after 36 years at the company, and will be replaced at the helm of its worldwide printing business with another long-serving executive.

Deltor Communications is a long-established Cornwall printer, currently based in a modern 2,320m² factory in Saltash, on the opposite side of the river Tamar from Plymouth.

Agfa Graphics has launched the new Adamas plate, which is said to offer all of the benefits of existing chem-free alternatives but “brings robustness to a whole new level”.

Heidelberg has agreed a new credit line with its banking syndicate that it described as “solid but also flexible”, delivering longer-term certainty for the company’s finances.

InkTec has launched an entry-level LED-UV flatbed printer, the KX6U-LED.

The opening months of 2018 have been dominated by news of consolidation among kit manufacturers.

Heidelberg has unveiled the Versafire EV, the latest in its Versafire family of digital printers, for both the four- and five-colour market.

Japanese post-press equipment manufacturer Duplo Corporation has bought Duplo International, parent of Duplo UK and Duplo France and master distributor for the Europe, Middle East, Africa & Russia...

Ebeam Technologies has launched an electron beam curing system for the high-performance finishing of labels and flexible packaging materials printed on an HP Indigo 20000 digital press.

Machine learning, artificial intelligence and robotics have dominated every technology conference, tradeshow and summit in the past six months.