Presses

Birch Printers has installed a five-colour Komori Lithrone S29, ending 15 years as a Heidelberg house.

B1 printer Polar Print Group (PPG) has invested 3m on two new KBA Rapida 105 presses which the firm be-lieves will be the worlds first carbon-neutral machines.

The commercial B1 and packaging press arenas are set to hot up after a host of Japanese manufacturers used this weeks Igas show in Tokyo to premiere new presses.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has revealed its first sheetfed press in seven years in the form of the Diamond V3000, which features more than 80 makeready and production improvements.

Our core business is label printing and the investment in a UV flexo press is a major step forward for a business like ours.

Bertelsmann, the German media group, is pushing for a cost-cutting programme at its gravure printing arm Prinovis, according to press reports.

Heidelbergs long-awaited entry into the very-large format (VLF) sector has come a step closer with the completion of a 31m (EUR45m) assembly hall.

The countdown to News Internationals printing supersite at Broxbourne took its latest step last week (September 13) with the sites topping out party.

We decided that it was time to review our production capabilities, and the Ryobi press really stood out as a way forward for our business.

As printers, we all rely to some extent on our equipment manufacturers research and development teams for our costs savings, quality enhancements and growing profits. Sure, we can sell better, we can...