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A McLay & Company has topped off a £570,000 investment in finishing equipment with a new Stitchmaster from Heidelberg and hinted at more to come.

The Cardiff-based B1 printer previously bought two MBO folders from Friedheim International, one in August 2007 and one in January 2008, at a total cost of £190,000.

Its latest investment, £380,000 on a Stitchmaster ST450, will replace two older Pacesetters – a 455 and 705.

The ST450 runs at speeds of up to 14,000 cycles per hour and can handle A6 to A3 formats.

Richard Kyte, manufacturing manager at A McLay, who started with the company at the same time as the old Pace­setters were being installed, said the Stitchmaster was brought in to improve productivity and efficiency.

He said: “The new machine cuts makeready times significantly. It is fully automated and the previous two were manual. We have upped our running speed considerably.”

Delivery of the Stitch­master is expected later this month with full production coming on stream at the start of June. 

A McLay has also recently attained ISO 14001 and is now gunning for FSC Chain of Custody.