Post press

Healeys Print Group has boosted its finishing department as part of a wider investment programme to help support growth.

Fine art book printer Folio Albums has installed a CCM Premier 780 guillotine from supplier Terry Cooper Services (TCS).

Newnorth Print has taken its first steps into wide-format to help diversify its business and, separately, beefed up its folding firepower.

Leeds Graphic Press (LGP) has boosted its finishing capabilities with the purchase of a Duplo 600i Booklet System.

Print finisher Larkbeare Services has installed an MBO K760/4S-KTL folding machine with stacker delivery system to help increase performance in its wire binding and PUR binding facilities.

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.