Commercial sheetfed printer W&G Baird has become the first company in the UK and Ireland to order robotic Stahlfolder P-Stackers from Heidelberg.

Scodix has raised $19m (£13.8m) through an IPO on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.

Heidelberg CEO Rainer Hundsdörfer has described the group – still the world’s largest press manufacturer – as “developing from a printing press supplier into a technology company”.

FD Signs has quickly secured new business after installing a Kongsberg X24 Edge digital cutting table.

Paragon Customer Communications has boosted its binding flexibility to embrace the rise in demand for variable booklets.

Industry voices have joined the growing clamour for the government to take action to halt the so-called ‘pingdemic’ that is paralysing some businesses.

Former Communisis director Adrian Odds has joined CDS in a newly-created role.

Stora Enso said that demand for its products – with the exception of graphic paper – had recovered strongly in Q2.

A1 Sovereign has added an extra wide paper deck to its Konica Minolta AccurioPress C4080 – the first to be installed in the UK – to enable it to bring six-panel A4 brochure production in-house.

Micropress has upgraded its in-house saddle stitching capabilities with a high-spec Primera MC line from Muller Martini.

UPM has reported a strong Q2 performance at its Raflatac label division and in speciality papers, while demand for graphic papers jumped by 28% compared to last year.

Mercia Image Print has expanded its senior team with the appointment of a new business development manager.