Investment & installations

FespaDaily news round-up, day four: Armor; Mactac; Bickers/Simpson
The PrintWeek FespaDaily team’s round up of some of the stories from Day four of the show at the Hamburg Messe.

Odessa signs for HP Scitex 17000 at Fespa
Odessa Print Group has purchased an HP Scitex 17000 corrugated press with flexible loading kit at Fespa.

Thomson Print & Packaging gets new digital Versafire CV
Thomson Print & Packaging is replacing its five-year-old Ricoh digital press with a Versafire CV five-colour machine, in order to integrate it with the Prinect workflow already in use on its...

Equity investment: a capital idea for growing businesses
What do Adare, Walstead Group, Hobs Reprographics, Coveris, YM Group, Pureprint, Thames Card Technology, Writtle Holdings and Henry Stone have in common?

PeterLynn upgrades Xeikon facilities in £750,000 spend
Label printer PeterLynn has invested £750,000 in a Xeikon CX3 digital colour label press and a Digicon 3000 converting system.

Shirt Monkey relocates in expansion bid
Direct-to-garment (DTG) printer Shirt Monkey has relocated to a new premises to help accommodate continuous growth and kick off a further investment drive.

DIS rounds off bumper EFI spend
Wolverhampton-based wide-format printer Digital Imaging Services (DIS) Group has rounded off a £500,000 spend with the purchase of its second EFI wide-format machine in the past six months.

Cliftons invests in foil blocking
Trade finisher Cliftons has brought foil-blocking in-house after investing in a Yawa TDS-750 automatic foil-stamping, die-cutting and embossing machine.

Elanders UK buys Speedmaster long perfector
Elanders UK has purchased a Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 106-8-P long perfector to increase its ability to handle long-run print work for the educational, publishing, automotive and brand marketing...

SPD makes textile move with Mimaki
SPD Design & Print hopes to boost turnover by more than £1m by breaking into textile and exhibition work after buying an LED UV wide-format printer.