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Q&A: Heather Davies, finance director, Fuller Davies
Heather retired in mid-April, having worked at Ipswich-based Fuller Davies since the firm’s inception some “35-plus years ago”. Her retirement plans include “spending special time with my three...

Rising star: Ronan McKechnie, lithographic apprentice, CPI William Clowes
Ronan is 20 years old and has been working in the industry since the summer of 2017. Earlier this year he was awarded Learner of the Year by specialist training provider Learn2Print, which provides...

60 seconds with Imprint Digital
Keith Sutherland started the firm that became Imprint Digital in 1972 when he was “thrown out of university for failing to do any work on my Masters’ degree”. This was because he was also organising a...

Clarity is key when it comes to driving change
Celebrating 50 years of operation this year, Southend-based Formara Print & Marketing has, incredibly, come through the past 12 months unscathed. Stronger even. But over the past two decades the road...

No jab, no job?
Just over a year ago, Covid-19 developed from a localised outbreak in a Chinese province to a global pandemic.

Reputation rescue
Reputations, like trust, are hard to earn and easy to lose. Threats to a reputation come in many forms – rivals making underhand allegations, activity by state-run organs and malevolence in elements...

The new face of recruitment
The adoption of technology is relentless, but businesses – and that technology – still need people. Whether it’s for management, the shop floor, accounts or deliveries, people make the world go around...

Best of British: Finishing firsts
TS Converting Equipment is a multimillion-pound converting specialist built on a long history of innovation.

Keeping it all running
While an older machine might still be the perfect tool for a particular job, they are more prone to breakdown, and finding parts will only get harder and harder.

Star product: Dalim Drive
A “unique” pre-press toolkit for high-volume operations.

Star product: Highcon Beam 2
Due to make a star appearance at Drupa 2020, the latest of Highcon’s laser-based B1 digital cutting and creasing machines features improved productivity and a more user-friendly interface.

Me & my: Kolbus PE 312
With a heritage that stretches back 200 years, FLB Group puts quality first and found this machine matched all its KPIs.

Me & my: Landa S10P
The first Landa Nanographic press running in the UK is now an integral part of Bluetree’s operation – but is it hitting all its targets?

Q&A: Del Simmons, operations director, Dayfold
Del is 40 years old, and has been working in the industry for 25 years. When not at work you can find him on his canal boat “moving at 4mph”. Or perhaps sat on the bank fishing if his fiancée Emily...

60 seconds with Apprintable
Apprintable was conceived in spring 2015 when co-founder and managing director Peter Haddad noticed a “huge gap in the print market” while at university.