Equipment manufacturers

Arjowiggins Creative Papers has entered the printed electronics market with the launch of its Powercoat range.

Fujifilm has taken the first European orders for its B2 inkjet Jet Press 720 from two companies in Austria and France.

Cheshire-based E Petch Printers has bought a Polar 92N Plus guillotine and quadrupled the size of its finishing facility with a move to a 900sqm site .

Packaging supplier Atlantic Enterprises has won a two-year contract to manage fast food chain Pizza Hut's packaging supply chain.

Chesapeake's pharmaceutical plant in Leicester has invested 20,000 in an Alpha.c combination unit and an Alpha.f filtration unit from Technotrans, for one of its Komori L628 presses.

Manroland Web Systems has received the first orders of its One Touch press control system, which combines tablet technology and touchscreens with the manufacturer's printing unit control software.

Vivid Laminating Technologies has launched an automatic feeder that can be retrofitted to its Matrix MX-530 multilingual single side laminators.

Northern California-based trade printer Moquin Press has purchased a new Vutek GS3250 LX LED grand-format UV digital inkjet printer from Heidelberg to help drive its packaging business.

Kodak has received an offer in excess of the required $500m for its digital imaging patents, according to reports.