Investment & installations

VMGS adds another Mimaki in January haul
Market Harborough-based Visual Marketing and Graphic Services (VMGS) installed a 3.2m Mimaki and two cutters in January 2023.

Creative Bee flies into action with Mimaki install
Creative Bee, the digital wide-format sister company of litho printer Creative Colour n Copy, has boosted production significantly after installing a new Mimaki JV100-160 roll-fed printer.

Symbiosis embraces life with new Kongsberg
Exhibition stand designer-builder Symbiosis has brought a significant amount of work in-house and expanded its repertoire with the installation of a Kongsberg C60 digital cutting table.

Minuteman Press King's Lynn boosts booklets with Duplo upgrade
The King's Lynn franchise of Minuteman Press has seen a “dramatic” increase in productivity after installing a new Duplo DBM-350 digital bookletmaker in October.

PHD invests £2m in mailing growth
Burton-on-Trent secure document mailing company PHD Mail has invested £2m in an array of brand-new machinery, capitalising on growth it has seen in the transactional mail market.

NSD upgrades flexo business with Edale purchase
Litho and digital label printer NSD has invested in a new Edale FL3 press, arriving on Friday (3 March).

FPL Signs returns to Vivid for VeloBlade install
FPL Signs has taken on a new VeloBlade Nexus digital die-cutting system from Vivid Laminating Technologies to bolster its in-house offering.

Reflex takes over GSH label and tag production
Reflex Group has expanded again after taking over the GSH Group’s label and tag production wing and forming a new partnership with the supplier.

The February and March issue is out now. Our ‘2023 Shortlist issue’ is jam-packed with the best the UK print industry has to offer as well as all the usual thought-provoking insights and the latest news and views...
Then issue opens with a question: Is the fact there are fewer skilled workers in print a bad thing?

Oriel powers up brand new Heidelberg Speedmaster
Oriel Printing has taken delivery of a new Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 106, which the firm estimates will boost productivity by more than 25%.