Last month, PrintWeek, in partnership with Canon, brought together seven business leaders from a range of companies to discuss ‘rising to the challenges and seizing the opportunities’.

Precision Printing has augmented its casebinding capabilities after investing close to £200,000 in new equipment for the department.

Integrity Print has appointed Chris Walton as head of operations at its Transactional division.

Route One Print has eased its cutting process after investing around £350,000 in a Baumann-Wohlenberg BASA 3 automatic jogging and handling system.

Heidelberg has reported an uptick in its first-half EBITDA boosted by the growth of its new subscription model, although its bottom line suffered from one-off costs.

Orders continue to rise at Koenig & Bauer but sales at the press manufacturer have been hit by a bottleneck in parts supply that has hit delivery schedules.

Whistl has started to expand Parcelhub, the business it acquired in June, after investing in its first automated parcel sortation machine and taking on a new director of business development.

Adare SEC is to concentrate operations at its Redditch site on core security products with an investment of around £400,000 early next year.

Parkside has launched what it believes is a unique fully recyclable single-polymer laminate for crisp, drink and tobacco packaging.

Ricoh has acquired LAC Corporation, a Japanese company specialising in technology to print onto three-dimensional surfaces, as part of its industrial print growth strategy.