Binding

Blackburn’s Modern Bookbinders, founded in 1930, will close in late December after 94 years in business, with machinery, customer book and website up for sale.

Charing Cross Print has concluded a 12-month, circa £380,000 re-equip that has seen it invest in machines from Duplo, Xerox, Vivid and Ideal.

Overmatter is rather disturbed after learning about what must surely be the country’s most macabre printing artefact.

NHS printer and print manager Harlow Printing has invested around £200,000 in a range of finishing kit, including the UK’s third Horizon StitchLiner Mark III.

Alltrade Printers has invested just shy of £500,000 to boost its wire-binding capacity and upgrade its CTP system and MIS.

Terry Cooper Services (TCS) has added two new finishing machines to its portfolio.

Punching, binding and laminating equipment manufacturer Renz has revealed the kit it will be bringing to next week’s inaugural PrintWeekLive!.

Pureprint Group has invested £140,000 in five new machines supplied by German punching and binding specialist Renz, all installed at its Uckfield factory.

David John Papers has invested in its third Renz machine in under a year as it continues to streamline its binding workflow.

Schwartz Printing has upgraded its PUR binding capabilities by investing around £70,000 in a Morgana DigiBook 450.

Swiss manufacturer Imaging Solutions (ISAG) has launched a new lay-flat bookbinding system aimed at high-end applications.

London-based Park Communications has invested just shy of £200,000 in bringing lay-flat binding and die-cutting in-house.