Post-press

API Group has gone into administration as its US parent company closed all of the foil and laminate manufacturer’s UK sites.

Route 1 Print is in the process of installing a B1 format MGI Jetvarnish 3D Evo 75 embellishment press from Konica Minolta, the first of its kind in the UK with iFoil L hot-foiling capabilities.

Long-established Thomas Loughlin (Liverpool) is shutting down after almost 130 years in business.

Fuller Davies has taken on a Horizon BQ-270V single-clamp perfect binder to add capabilities in-house for the production of high-end catalogues and brochures.

Intelligent Finishing Systems (IFS) has extended its portfolio of Horizon equipment with the addition of the VAC L600H six-bin collator.

The Printing Charity is funding a scheme to help promote bookbinding and bookbinding tuition and to increase the number of students taking up the craft and entering the profession.

Deanprint can trace its history back to the 1870s when Dean & Dawson was a world renowned travel agency (even getting a mention in the film The Great Escape).

Commercial printer The Print Unit has upped the quality of its binding by investing in a Horizon BQ-270V single-clamp perfect binder.

Isle of Wight printer Crossprint has bolstered its bindery by investing in an MBO K70 folder.

Mayor of Cambridge and seasoned print sector union representative Nigel Gawthrope has died at the age of 61.