Investment & installations

Delga Press will be the first UK firm to run an HP Indigo 12000 HD for dedicated packaging applications when it installs the machine at the start of April.

Oxfordshire commercial printer KMS Litho has brought lamination in-house after investing in a B2+ Foliant Mercury 530SF laminator with Foliant’s multi-functional Inprinting Unit.

Start-up signage and print company Bow Design has set its long-term sights on becoming one of the biggest signage printers in Wales after taking on a new TrueVis VG-640 wide-format printer-cutter.

Adare Secure Essential Communications (SEC) has now gone live with the UK’s first Hunkeler CS8 cross-cutter, signalling a 20% increase in speed upon its predecessor.

Buxton Press has invested in a Kolbus KM 610 perfect binder to help drive growth in magazine and brochure work.

Willow Printing & Design has installed a new bookletmaker as part of an investment in new kit that has totalled more than £80,000 in the past 18 months.

McGowans has kicked off pre-Brexit expansion at both its Dublin and Belfast bases with two new large-format Durst Rho machines.

Printdesigns has significantly increased its fabric printing capacity after investing around £250,000 in a new EFI printer that it said is “six to eight times faster” than its previous machine.

Commercial and wide-format printer One Digital has bought a new Duplo DC-646 slitter-cutter-creaser to boost its productivity and enable it to keep more finishing in-house.

Manchester Print Services has invested more than £200,000 in new cutting and dye-sublimation equipment to cope with increasing demand for its services.