The Redditch, Worcestershire-based company has replaced three existing folder-gluer machines with a Visionfold machine and has also installed a Visioncut diecutter.

Weedon's new folder-gluer is a 170cm-wide Easyset version, the first in the UK. It features easy set-up and an Accufeed system, which includes a blank aligning unit. It arrived in November and began full production last month.

The Visioncut was added to the plant in December, coming online around the same time, and is being run alongside the company's existing Bobst SPO 160-Vision machine.

It runs at up to 4,800 sheets per hour and features "enhanced ergonomics" enabling a job change to take place in less than 10 minutes.

Managing director John Weedon said: "We have seen strong growth in demand for innovative corrugated packaging solutions over the past 12 months. To satisfy this increased level of business we need to expand our conversion capacity.

"Because of the increased demand for our products, we had been running the SPO 160-Vision 24 hours a day."

He added that the company could now handle an entire range of jobs that it was unable to manage previously.

Meanwhile, Bobst has sold the UK's first Ambition folder-gluer to a company in the South of England. The machine will go to the unnamed printer next month, where it will replace an older machine.

Bobst said that the purchaser is noted for its "high-quality print" and "print with special varnishes and foil printing".