Precision Proco Group gained a “market-leading” position in a swathe of print-on-demand products after acquiring a substantial manufacturing facility from customer Photobox... Omni-channel communications specialist Critiqom secured a four-year, multimillion-pound national framework agreement for the provision of postal services... A buy-in management buy-out was completed at The Mailshop, with former Citipost strategic sales specialist John Ellis joining the business as managing director... A restructure at Datum saw a new company emerge, while Datum Colour Print (Hatfield) went into voluntary liquidation. Datum Creative Media Ltd, trading as Datum, gained court permission to continue using the Datum name, but as an online print shop... LG Davis acquired local business Positive Print to grow its commercial offering... Clays was making its biggest investment yet in a unique configuration Manroland Goss Web Systems Lithoman IV press... An explosion at a Japanese Konica Minolta toner factory resulted in a shortage of toner supply... Associated Newspapers confirmed with its print supplier, gravure and web offset printer Prinovis, that the production of Weekend and You magazines would be moving to another printer – YM Group’s Chantry site... Zaikio added its first major partner in the UK to the Zaikio Procurement platform with a new agreement with Premier Paper... Innovative, compostable packaging business Vegware was acquired by US group Novolex... DS Smith invested in 10 automated guided vehicles (AGVs) to increase sustainability and efficiency at its Kemsley paper mill in Kent... Three companies – two corrugated packaging firms and a machinery supplier – were fined after a worker suffered life-changing injuries while operating a flatbed die-cutting device... McGowans’ Landa S10 press arrived at the firm’s Dublin production facility... Service Graphics installed the UK’s first Konica Minolta AccurioPress C7100 at a new direct mail operation in the west country... Israeli fin-tech press was reporting that Landa Digital Printing could float on the US Nasdaq exchange with a valuation of $2bn (£146bn)... High-end print specialist Push Print became the latest victim of the pandemic, with the business on the verge of being wound up...