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TCT invests more than £2m in new kit

Card manufacturer and mailing operation Thames Card Technology (TCT) has increased its personalisation capacity by 60% after investing more than £2m in a range of new kit.

Polestar: one year on

A year on from the collapse of Polestar, UK printers remain hopeful of winning back some of the work that migrated to the continent – and remained there – after the group’s failure.

StackaWraps boosted by high-profile signings

StackaWraps has secured investment from two leading wide-format industry figures as it looks to steer its innovative shaped fabric POS and film props business through its next period of growth.

Overmatter: analogue Twitter

When Overmatter saw the press release about a new product range from Clintons, it gave every impression of being a late-arriving April Fool.

Nestlé commissions the Ultimate personalisation job

Personalised packaging is all the rage at the moment, with Unilever, Coca-Cola and a multitude of others embracing the trend over the past couple of years. The latest to get involved, Nestlé’s KitKat,...

GPS Colour Graphics upgrades pre-press and digital ops

One of Northern Ireland’s biggest commercial printers has ramped up production with a £450,000 spend centred on upgrading its pre-press operation and the installation of what it claimed was the first...

EFI reports revenue decline in Q1 results

EFI has seen its Q1 turnover fall by 2% compared to the same stage last year.

Empine launches education brand

Blackburn-based commercial printer Empine Print has launched Empine Education, a sub-brand, dedicated solely to printing for the education sector.

Industry names recognised in Queen’s Awards

A clutch of print-related companies have been recognised in the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise.

Precision supports site move with new RMGT LED-UV press

Precision Printing has invested in a new RMGT (Ryobi) LED-UV press to support its move to new premises and boost its capacity.

Dats Print Services opts for secondhand Speedmaster

Dats Print Services has invested around £280,000 in a secondhand four-colour-plus-coater Heidelberg SM 52 Anicolor to enable it to take on new work, save time, and be more cost-competitive.

Abbey Print upgrades cutting

Abbey Print has replaced a 20-year-old guillotine with a CCM Premier 780 in an effort to improve efficiency.

Abbey boosts mailing flexibility

Abbey Marketing Communications has beefed up the flexibility of its mail-piece finishing with its latest kit purchase.

Inaugural Shipley Wayzgoose planned

A ‘northern wayzgoose’ is being organised over the summer by two Yorkshire-based exponents of letterpress printing and fine binding.

Eagles boss joins Dragons' Den

One printing industry multimillionaire will be replaced by another when Steve Parish, the former chief executive of Tag Worldwide takes over from Moonpig’s Nick Jenkins on the Dragons’ Den panel this...