
Opal Envelopes buys Moll Versa-Fold to add heavyweight envelope option
Sheetfed envelope manufacturer Opal Envelopes has bought a Moll Versa-Fold folder-gluer to enable it to produce heavyweight envelopes.

Weedon PSC becomes first UK corrugated manufacturer to use Earthinks
Packaging and POS display manufacturer Weedon PSC has become the country’s first corrugated packaging manufacturer to use Solar Inks’ Earthinks.

Blue Star Print Finishers buys Horizon BQ470 to expand services
Trade finisher Blue Star Print Finishers has invested in a four-clamp Horizon BQ470 PUR perfect binder to support its service expansion into perfect-bound books.

Menu Printers awarded injunction against Basildon-based printer
An Essex-based print farmer has taken out an injunction against the owners and employees of the print business where she rented an office after they allegedly stole client information and files...

New business areas starting to pay off for KBA
First-half sales are up at KBA, which came close to breaking even in the period.

Ashgate Automation founder John Price passes away
John Price, founder and managing director of Ashgate Automation, has passed away, aged 58.

Heidelberg slashes post-press offering
Back in June, Heidelberg chief Dr Gerold Linzbach didn’t beat around the bush when it came to telegraphing his intentions for parts of the group that were described as “less strategic”.

Brooklyn Graphics drum skin rocks for Kasabian
Turning on the TV to be greeted by something you’ve helped create isn’t an experience all can claim. But Darren Brooks, partner at Falkirk-based printers Brooklyn Graphics, can.

Industry unfazed by Heidelberg move
Heidelberg’s decision to withdraw from a clutch of post-press markets, in either a sales or manufacturing sense (and in some cases both) seems to have been met by a fairly muted response.

Q&A: Clive Andrews-Lewis, studio manager, KJB UK
Clive has spent 36 years in print and says it was his vocation right from school, “real man and boy stuff”. Despite the photographic evidence he also says he’s loved all his years in the trade.

60 seconds with SPS Group
SPS Group was founded in 1968 by Ian Martin as a local screen printing business. The firm has developed into a POS and retail specialist employing 175 staff. It is run by Ian’s sons Toby (pictured)...

Overmatter: Presstival
Overmatter yearns for a holiday. Fortunately, a printing Wayzgoose is inked in Overmatter’s diary for a few weeks hence.