Disciplines

The design of the new £50 polymer banknote featuring scientist Alan Turing, which will enter general circulation for the first time in June, has been unveiled.

Three large print and postage contracts worth in excess of £7m are currently up for grabs via the government’s Find a Tender service.

SwissQprint has launched a range of new products, including the speed version of its Karibu UV roll-to-roll printer.

Compass Business Finance has flagged the looming deadline for “favourable” M&A financing using the government-backed CBILS scheme – but printers need to act fast to put things in place.

Online wide-format start-up Signs Base has completed a project to revamp the signage across 16 schools.

Koenig & Bauer expects to break even in the current financial year, after filing 2020 results that were “significantly better than the industry average”.

Another five companies have signed up to have their annual carbon emissions balanced through the Carbon Balanced Printer programme.

Industry bosses have been reflecting on a year like no other as the UK marks one year since prime minister Boris Johnson announced the first lockdown.

ACA Print Finishing & Packaging Solutions has purchased its first Heidelberg B1 die-cutter with stripping, as part of a continued investment drive.

Service Offset Supplies (SOS) has acquired CTP kit reseller and support specialist Prepress Services (PPS) to expand its product and service offering.