Binding

Wyndeham Group owner Walstead has rescued Polestar’s Bicester operation with a deal to buy the equipment at the site and re-employ more than 300 staff.

Skyline Bookbinders has improved throughput of work after starting up a new Meccanotecnica Aster Pro52 sewing machine.

W&G Baird has made a bumper £4m investment – backed by the Bank of Ireland - that includes a Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 106-8-P with Inpress Control 2 and a Kolbus KM600 perfect binding line.

General commercial printer Lion FPG has used a recent contract win to splash out on a new perfect binder.

Meler Gluing Solutions' two UK agents have joined forces to set up Meler Bookbinding Division, which will drive worldwide sales of Meler's PUR conversion systems.

Trade print finisher and book binder Cliftons is targeting double-digit year-on-year growth after investing more than £1m in a range of new equipment.

Digital printer Your Print Solution has invested around £25,000 in a Morgana DigiBook 200 PUR binder, which will enable it to offer short-run PUR binding work to customers.

A specialist print finisher and bookbinder in the Midlands is rebranding to better promote its labour-intensive and oversized services.

PCL Digital has bought two pieces of Duplo equipment to boost its productivity and increase its in-house service offering with the aim to increase turnover by 20 to 30% in the next 12 months.

A traditional book binders has won a four-year contract and a slew of new work following a £70,000 investment.

Book and journal printer Henry Ling has doubled its binding capacity after investing in a Tecnau Libra 800.

TG Print & Design has invested in a Morgana DigiBook 200 PUR perfect binding machine to enable it to bring PUR binding in-house.