The month’s list of Printweek’s most read stories is top ‘n’ tailed by a major player calling it a day at its UK operation while another leading light welcomes a new era as it changes hands.

Friedheim Packaging has added two machines designed to save labour to its portfolio.

ESP Group has been acquired in a management buyout (MBO) deal and has ambitious growth plans to be achieved both organically and through acquisition.

Party Décor has enhanced its digital cutting capability with the installation of a new PFi Blade B2+ cutting table.

Emerge Advertising has invested in a Titanium 2516 cutting table with router from International Graphics Supplies (IGS) to ease a finishing bottleneck caused by manual cutting processes.

Fasprint will close its doors on 30 November, after 38 years of trading.

James Cropper has posted a £200,000 operating loss for the first half of the year, but expects to return to profitability in H2 on the back of strong sales growth – and the business has also spent...

Screen Europe is moving to a new, larger HQ building near to Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport.

Fujifilm has reported a strong performance at its industrial inkjet business and a recovery in digital press shipments in Europe and the US.

Heidelberg UK is back in the black and its German parent group has just announced an order backlog of more than €1bn (£877m) “for the first time in years”.