Gemini Print Finishing has invested over 500,000 in new equipment as part of its continued upgrade and ongoing move into direct mail finishing.

Sealed Air, the inventor of bubble-wrap, has launched the Shanklin Horizon series of high-speed automatic wrappers in the UK.

Short-run journal printer, Nightingale Press, has invested over 100,000 to upgrade its finishing department and bring perfect binding in-house.

MAN Roland GB has launched Used Machinery Direct, formalising the firms ad-hoc system for buying and selling used presses.

Printers are increasingly recognising that planned maintenance brings tangible business benefits, according to the preliminary findings of a study by Vision in Print (ViP).

The administrators for Grasmere Press are to sell off its business forms printing equipment, after failing to find a buyer for the firm.

Zenith Media is following its purchase of a six-colour Komori at this years Drupa with a 115,000 guillotine.

Although M-real has reported third quarter improvements in paper demand, operating losses at the Finnish papermaker have increased.

Intaglio Print Finishing has rounded off a 150,000 investment program with the installation of two Fidia folder-gluers.

Priority Newstrade & Mailing has established a design and print division, Priority Digital as part of a 500,000 investment.