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Opus Trust Marketing has invested a six-figure sum in a new Kern 3600 finishing line to help meet a rise in mail pack orders and volumes, and agreed an option to make further purchases.

Fine printer Benwells and design company We Made This have teamed up to create a joint promotion using limited edition packs of postcards featuring a raft of printing techniques and paper stocks.

Trade business promotional calendar specialist Barley Print is anticipating a 20% turnover growth over the next three years after diversifying its service offering with a Heidelberg investment.

Tharstern is using next month's Graph Expo 15 in Chicago as a launchpad for its expansion into the US, one year after a management buyout.

Greetings cards producer PJ Print has improved production flows and reduced noise after buying a Polar RA-4 jogger.

DPS Digital has offered a permanent job to a printer who had to give up work five years ago to have a brain tumour removed, following his completion of a work placement scheme.

Allison Printers has boosted business after investing in its second “low cost” Hans Gronhi Sanxin press.

Sheetfed magazine printer Buxton Press is focusing on finishing as part of an ongoing £20m spend at the Derbyshire business.

Agfa Graphics has given its northern showroom a technology revamp with the latest printing engines and software.

Food production students are honing their skills on food packaging after their college bought a Mimaki CF2 flatbed cutter and JV300-160 solvent printer.

German paper mill Scheufelen is moving into the packaging market after slashing graphic paper production and jobs and employing Tullis Russell Papermakers’ former UK sales manager.

Saxon Packaging has brought large-format litho lamination in-house with a new Lamina Blackline 1620.

Manor Group last week started production on a new five-colour H-UV-equipped Komori Lithrone G40 using power generated from 400 solar roof panels.

A Chesterfield print company is looking to save £10,000 a month in wasted paper when it goes live next week with a new five-colour Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 75 with coater.

A huge security printing contract could once again be up for grabs if a pressure group calling for the re-introduction of ID cards in the UK has its way.