Investment & installations

Loughborough uni brings PUR inhouse
Loughborough University’s design & print services department has installed a DigiBook 150 PUR binder from Morgana to improve the quality and flexibility of its finished products and to bring...

Vale Press steps up to B2 with £800,000 spend
Vale Press has invested £800,000 to move from B3 to B2 production in an all-Heidelberg deal.

Close and Compass secure government funding for print
Close Brothers Asset Finance and Compass Business Finance are among the 50 organisations to receive money as part of Round 5 of the government’s Regional Growth Fund (RGF).

Denny Bros cuts energy bill with solar investment
Denny Bros expects to cut its total annual power consumption by at least 6% after installing 200 50KW solar photovoltaic panels on the roof of its Bury St Edmunds production facility.

Streamline owner Lockley beds in with second print firm
Former Inspired Thinking Group (ITG) director Mark Lockley, who bought Leicester-based Streamline Press last year, is eyeing further growth after completing the acquisition of local rival, John Baxter...

Pollards buys second Xerox iGen to enhance print-on-demand capability
Exeter-based printer William Pollard & Company has installed a Xerox iGen 150 alongside its existing iGen 4 to allow it to print a wider range of formats digitally and to better match brand colour...

GBM Manchester buys UK's first Elitron Kombo SD+ cutter
GBM Manchester has become the first graphic arts business in the UK to install a Kombo SD+ flatbed cutter from Italy-based Elitron, through its new UK distributor Atech.

Tradeprint.co.uk orders first KBA as part of £4m spend
Tradeprint.co.uk has ordered a KBA Rapida 106 as part of a £4m spend that will also include a range of post-press and "added-value finishing" equipment, some of which was sourced at Ipex 2014.

MPC signs for XL 75 at Heidelberg 20/20 event
Barnet-based MPC Solutions signed for a Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 75 at Heidelberg’s 20/20 Vision event last week in a £1.4m spend that will lead to the new press replacing two older Heidelbergs.

Debenhams brings all global tag printing in-house
Debenhams has expanded its in-house print operation to include all product labelling, previously outsourced to bureaus in the UK and the Far East, after the addition of a Xerox iGen150 and Nuvera 157.