The Stockport-based company has spent £3.5m on KBA’s largest sheetfed litho press, which prints sheets up to 1,050x2,050mm.

B&P is hoping to establish itself as a multi-process print and point-of-sale specialist.

Managing director Les Thomas said: “We need to think big and to stand out from the crowd and we needed to buy the biggest sheetfed litho press we possibly could.”

The five-colour UV press was specified with an anilox coating tower and a board and plastics package that
will allow the press to print a wide range of paper, board, plastics, acetates and metallised substrates from 0.6 to 1.2mm thick.

New staff are now being sought by B&P. The £7.5m turnover company will be sending new recruits as well as some current employees from its 80 staff to Germany for specialist training.

Thomas (pictured far right) added: “We need this machine as our passport to a bigger and better future. But really it is all about trust and loyalty between us, our staff and our customers.”

The press will be brought into the company’s new 7,000 sqm facility on the Stanley Green Trading Estate at Cheadle Hulme in the summer.