Investment & installations

Lonsdale Direct Solutions has invested more than £200,000 in two pieces of kit from Duplo and a Watkiss SquareBack bookletmaker on the occasion of its 100th year of trading.

The UK’s largest Minuteman Press franchise, in Bath, has bought the UK’s first Valiani Optima V 250 flatbed cutting table.

John E Wright has invested £90,000 in two Xerox Versant 80 digital presses, bringing the number of Xerox digital machines across its branches to 10.

Heriot-Watt University’s School of Textiles and Design has become one of the first educational institutions in the UK to install Mimaki’s TX300P-1800 textile printer.

ImageCo has invested in an HP Latex 570 in order to handle extra capacity from an influx of wallpaper work.

Commercial printer Printwell UK has invested £1m in a range of new equipment, including the second Xerox iGen 5 digital press in the country to be installed with all three of its fifth colour...

North Wales-based cartonboard manufacturer and converter Boardlink Group has invested £4.5m in buying its previously-rented manufacturing facility, upgrading its equipment and has consolidated its two...

Transactional mail printer MPS Marketing Services has purchased a second Neopost folding and enclosing line.

Wide-format specialist Matic Media has invested in a Mimaki UJV55-320 LED UV roll-fed printer to support its self-developed web-to-print software platform, Graphic Warehouse.

Commercial printer Laser Graphics has invested in a Heidelberg Versafire CV, its first investment in a press from the German manufacturer.