Finishing

Frome, Somerset-based printer PPS Commercial Print has invested in a Duplo Digital System 5000 bookletmaker to reduce its makeready times and benefit from full automation.

Fledgling finishing and assembly company Forward Finishing has invested in new equipment and is due to move to larger premises to cope with rapid growth since opening last year.

Screenprint & Display (S&D) has invested almost £250,000 in new kit as it targets growth following the acquisition of an online sticker specialist.

Esko will hold the first European demonstration of its new i-Cut Production Console at next month’s Fespa exhibition in Cologne.

Merseyside trade finisher Thomas Loughlin (Liverpool) has invested in two Horizon VAC-1000 collating towers, which it hopes will continue its 8% year-on-year growth.

London printer FE Burman has recently invested in a Horizon StitchLiner and Uchida Aerocut cutter, creaser and perforator to increase its production quality and streamline its productivity.

Printer and bookbinder Deanprint has upgraded its finishing capabilities by investing in two Baumann-Wohlenberg 115 high speed cutters.

William Pollard & Company has followed up the recent doubling of its offset print capacity by boosting its finishing capabilities with a new Stahlfolder KH 82 and a Duplo DC-745 multi-finisher.

Speciality boxmaker W MacCarthy & Sons hopes to boost efficiency on knife changes and programming when it takes delivery of a Polar guillotine next month from Heidelberg.

First Folio Design aims to improve efficiency and reduce waste after installing a Watkiss BookMaster Pro bookletmaker and trimmer.

Vivid Laminating Technologies has launched a new Easymount Flow finishing table.

Digital book printer Printondemand-worldwide has invested in a custom-designed Hunkeler Book Block Line, which it first saw and made the decision to buy at the manufacturer’s Innovationdays event in...