Books

Digital book printer Printondemand-worldwide has continued its automation drive by investing in a Kolbus DA270 Casemaker.

Book manufacturer TJ International has restructured its operations and appointed two manufacturing and book professionals to its newly formed executive team.

St Ives aims to diversify the client base at point-of-sale wing SP Group “as a priority” in order to reduce the operation’s dependency on the under-pressure grocery sector.

Timsons litho presses for book printing will be manufactured again thanks to a new partnership between Kolbus and Timsons Engineering in Kettering.

Publishing giant Penguin Random House is set to close its largest distribution centre in Rugby, Warwickshire.

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.

BPIF chief executive Charles Jarrold used last week’s 2015 British Book Design & Production Awards (BBD&PA), which generated a record number of entries, to highlight the resurgence of the printed...

CPI Books has reacted to “a significant shift” towards print-on-demand by buying six new Canon printers.

Bell & Bain has embarked upon a multimillion-pound investment programme, including the first Horizon Smart Binding System in Europe and a new KBA Rapida 145 large-format litho press.

GF Smith is publishing a 100-page crowd-sourced photobook to provide “an authoritative tool for the print buyer and photographer”.

CPI is set to invest in a second Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 106 and a pre-press upgrade as part of a strategy to grow its commercial printing division.

Bertelsmann is to create Europe’s biggest printing group by putting all its print operations under one umbrella.