Event

The Packaging Innovations event closed its doors last week boasting record numbers. Some 6,585 visitors made straight for the stands of 350 exhibitors, trumping last year’s event in size and scope.

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Expensive, irrelevant and out of date, with no accurate way of measuring tangible ROI – this is the view that some equipment manufacturers have of trade shows these days.

Commercial and trade printer Print Right has brought booklet production in-house and is looking to buy another press to double turnover.

Central Colour has ordered a new Ryobi Mitsubishi B1 press to hone colour-critical glossy print for automotive and fabric sectors.

MP for Stockport Ann Coffey visited print and finishing company Deanprint, which is based in the town, last Friday (27 February) to mark the firm’s 125th anniversary.

Printers looking to improve their knowledge of new digital applications, extend their services and bump up revenue are being offered workshop training.

Fespa Digital 2016 will return to its birthplace, the Amsterdam RAI, next year, while this year’s flagship event is inching towards being a sell-out with more than 95% of the floorspace taken.

McMordie Bros is boasting the first Mimaki JFX200-2513 grand-format LED UV flatbed printer in Ireland to help the company expand its direct-to-board printing and rigid substrate service.

J Thomson Colour Printers has backed up a recent investment in MBO folders by replacing a Wohlenberg guillotine with a Polar 137 N Plus from Heidelberg, due to arrive this month.

Last week's Packaging Innovations show clocked up record numbers, say organisers, who totted up 6,585 visitors descending onto the stands of the 350 exhibitors.

Print and visual communications specialist Callprint aims to ramp up turnover in its Birmingham hub by up to 50% with an expansion of the Midlands base.

Canon Europe has launched the Océ ColorStream 3000 Z, a high-speed commercial inkjet printing system, at Hunkeler Innovationdays in Lucerne, Switzerland last week.

Pitney Bowes has launched its new Epic Inserting System at Hunkeler Innovationdays, held in Lucerne, Switzerland last week.

Muller Martini has unveiled its new Vareo perfect binder at Hunkler Innovationdays, held in Lucerne, Switzerland earlier this week.