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Point-of-sale specialist Print & Display has installed a brand-new SwissQprint Kudu 3.2m flatbed with roll-to-roll function, helping it to phase out its screen printing department.

Make Up Print Finishers, the trade finishing arm of Gloucestershire-based Vale Press Group, has automated its in-house gluing process with a brand-new Moll Digi-MollPak folder-gluer.

Sales and profits are up at online greeting card and gifting specialist Funkypigeon.com.

Manroland Sheetfed has a new CEO and has opted to run its own ‘world tour’ instead of exhibiting at Drupa.

Essex sign, display and vehicle livery firm Signs Base has more than doubled its design output after introducing AI processes to cut down on laborious design work.

German pigment maker Heubach GmbH has filed for insolvency following a failed attempt at a financial restructure.

A former Liverpool and England footballing ace has been disqualified after his media business was wound up by HMRC.

Folio Print Finishing has been sold in a pre-pack deal to a second company owned by its directors, David Robshaw and Andrew Bird, after two major customers entered insolvency.

Specialist furniture manufacturer WF Education Group has installed a new Mimaki JFX200-2513 EX UV flatbed press to take control of the quality of its printed products.

JICMail has scaled up its Response Rate Tracker for 2024, revealing new direct mail and door drop benchmarks from over 2,300 campaigns and 13 contributing organisations – up from six last year.

German gravure printer TSB will close its doors at the end of the month.

Administrators at UK Printing Company (UKPC), which phoenixed in late March, have published details of the pre-pack sale of the business.

London-based print and design specialist Apprintable has taken delivery of a new Ricoh Pro C9500, enabling it to bring more work in-house and support its continued growth.

Sheffield Hallam University has opened enrolment for a packaging degree that is said to be the only course of its kind in the UK.

John Lewis is among a raft of retailers and brands to sign up for environmental not-for-profit Canopy’s Pack4Good initiative to mark Earth Day 2024.