Investment & installations

Astrid Saunders, former managing director of Forward Finishing, has announced the launch of her latest venture, AS Finishing, with a £60,000 investment in new machinery.

DDL Group has taken on a Vivid Matrix MX-370P laminator with foiling and spot UV effects, and an Omni-Flow deep-pile feeder, to enhance its finishing offering.

Pureprint Group has become the first UK company to add high-definition writing heads to an existing HP Indigo 12000 digital press.

Nationwide Print has spent £200,000 on a major expansion, taking on board four new finishing machines as well as updating its MIS and online marketing software.

Positive Images UK has moved into data-driven multichannel marketing after installing EFI’s DirectSmile cross-media suite, which it will soon have upgraded to MarketDirect, the rebranded and...

GM Finishing has installed a Renz Mobi 500 wire ring-binder to extend its finishing capabilities.

Commercial and digital printer Hickling & Squires has initiated a £1m 2018 investment programme with the installation of an eight-colour Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 75 press.

Graphico has said it is future-proofing its litho operation by investing in two new Heidelberg Speedmaster SX 52 presses.

Exhibition and events specialist Keyboard Group has taken on a brace of HP Latex 1500 wide-format printers and a Zünd G3 3XL3200 to rejuvenate and expand its offering.

Towel maker Bursali Towels has extended its capacity with the installation of a DGI Fabrijet FT-1908 dye-sub printer.