Printers

The Llandysul, Wales-based publisher and printer is targeting a 20% increase in turnover after concluding a £3m upgrade of its pre-press, printing and finishing equipment.

Printworks, Falkirk Council's print facility, has installed a Perfecta 76 HTVC guillotine as the final part of its 460,000 long-term investment project.

While more than 100m of Drupa orders, mainly for batch-produced sheetfed offset presses, will take time to impact, preliminary half-year figures reveal overall group order intake is down 114m.

CPI Card Group has acquired the operating assets of ID Data Cards from UK security printer the Tall Group of Companies for an undisclosed sum.

St Ives has warned of "further deterioration" in trading conditions across its print operations while praising the performance of its burgeoning marketing services division.

The regional newspaper group has announced plans to close the city's Oundle Road printing press, which produces the Peterborough Telegraph.

Polestar hopes to persuade owner Sun Capital to back plans for a web offset supersite, after potential acquisitions in the sector proved 'not attractive'.

Service Graphics has produced what is claimed to be the UK's largest ever PVC print job, a 100mx37m banner commemorating the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.

MBA Group has bought two Pitney Bowes APS inserters and an FX10 encloser to kick off an investment programme that is expected to top £3m over the next nine months.

GJ Plastics has boosted its service offering after investing in an HP Scitex FB500 industrial printer to broaden the range of substrates it can print on.

Anton Group has ordered an additional eight Kodak Prosper S5 Imprinting Systems, taking its total to 14, and two new NexPress SX3900s at Drupa.

Nicholson Bass is updating its identity as it approaches its 75th anniversary with a new name, logo and marketing strategies.