Presses

KBA has posted Q1 pre-tax losses of 18.8m (2012: - 0.4m) citing postponed orders and weak quarterly sales.

Goss International has launched a "first-of-its-kind" highly automated 2x1 web offset press for the production of newspapers, books and semi-commercial publications.

Deltor Communications has bought a B2 Komori Lithrone S429 with coater as part of a £2m investment to push it into short-run work.

Warwick Printing Company is to be the first business in the UK with a Heidelberg Speedmaster SX 102 following a 2m investment.

Providence Integrated Print Solutions has inched its first Komori machine through the doors of its Crawley base to boost productivity by nearly a third.

Kodak is banking on its Stream inkjet and SquareSpot imaging technologies to create profitable revenue streams after the company emerges from Chapter 11.

Durst has launched two new Rho 1000 series wide format printers and an upgrade to its Durst Rho P10 series of printers ahead of this summer's Fespa 2013 exhibition in London.

Bavarian manufacturing firm IBS has acquired the former Plauen factory and assets of Manroland AG from its administrators, for an undisclosed sum.

Boise, Idaho based Alexander Clark Printing has added a six-color 29" Komori LSX629 to both boost productivity and expand its footprint in categories such as packaging.

HP has announced the Enhanced Color Pack upgrade for its Scitex FB7600 and upgraded FB7500 industrial flatbed printers.

Midland-based printing firm Emmerson Press recorded its best ever quarter at the start of this year, with 1m in sales.

Less than six months after it was acquired by private equity firm American Industrial Partners (AIP), Presstek is going through a restructuring that includes a number of redundancies.