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Lucien De Schamphelaere, the founder of Belgian digital press manufacturer Xeikon, has died aged 85.

Falkland Press has invested in a central cooling system from Technotrans to help minimise waste on its ‘Push to Stop’ Speedmaster XL 106.

Packaging giant Coveris has invested £3m in its Cambridgeshire-based cartonboard division.

Imprimus, the recently rebranded Stralfors UK, is developing a partnership with Office Depot subsidiary, Vital Communications.

Cimpress has embarked upon a major restructure to decentralise its operations that will see thousands of jobs devolved into its business units and the departure of a number of senior executives.

The number of pieces of direct mail sent to deceased people annually is set to cross the 200 million mark for the first time in 2017.

Bakergoodchild has invested in a raft of kit to expand its transactional mail offering and has relocated to larger premises.

Lonsdale Direct Solutions has invested more than £200,000 in two pieces of kit from Duplo and a Watkiss SquareBack bookletmaker on the occasion of its 100th year of trading.

KitKat is set to give away more than 55,000 printed personalised packs featuring photos and names of competition-winners.

A new industry event, headed up by Morgana Systems, Vivid Laminating Technologies and Konica Minolta, will take place next week.