Post press

Creasing matrix and profile rubbers manufacturer C&T Channel Matrix has begun supplying high-quality cutting and creasing steel rules directly from its Northamptonshire-based warehouse.

Plockmatic has hinted that it could make more acquisitions in the near future. The company bought Italian bindery kit manufacturer KGS Bindery in April and UK post-press specialist Morgana in 2013.

Card and invitation printer The Print Factory has invested £200,000 in a wide variety of kit, including a Xerox Versant 80 digital press, a Duplo DC-745 slitter-cutter-creaser and a Multigraf folder.

Flyer Press has replaced a Duplo System 5000 Booklet System with a new 600i model to boost its speed and reliability.

Specialist paper mill James Cropper will use Cologne’s Photokina trade fair to display its new Wall Ready Media range in an attempt to boost sales.

Adare Secure Essential Communications (SEC), part of the Adare Group, has invested £400,000 on a new bookletmaker and two more pieces of post-press equipment.

Bobst will use its October open house at its innovation centre in Heywood, Greater Manchester, to launch what it says is the world’s highest productivity vacuum metallizer.

Trade finisher Cliftons has purchased a new Perfecta Premium Line N 115 guillotine.

Sales of Baumann-Wohlenberg’s new Wohlenberg 80 Basic Line digital cutter have been so high that deliveries of the machine have been delayed until early 2017.

Tewkesbury Printing has invested heavily to upgrade its post-press equipment with the purchase of a Polar 92N Plus guillotine and a Stahlfolder BH66 semi-automatic folder.

The UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) has installed a second MBO T1420 large-format folder, to serve its fleet of five HP PageWide XLs.

Duplo has added the Drupa-launched Multigraf Touchline CPC375 to its product portfolio to broaden its range of multifinishers aimed at light- to medium-production environments.