The custom-built Pitney Bowes kit will give the personalised and security printer the capacity to fold and insert forms at up to 16,000 packs per hour.  

The equipment being installed at the firm's Brislington site in Bristol can cut, fold and insert forms up to 20in deep into DL and C5 envelopes. 

Orchestra Bristol operations director Andrew Bunnett said the investment would allow it "to offer its mailing clients a range of products not available elsewhere in the UK."  

He added: "Others have APS systems but no one has equipment to take 20in forms." 

The enclosing machine was built at Pitney Bowes' factory in Danbury, US.