Canon’s Stuart Rising has been promoted to the role of head of commercial printing, replacing the recently departed Craig Nethercott.

Northern Irish sheetfed printer W&G Baird has become the first UK company to install a B1 Komori Lithrone GL840P H-UV, rounding off an 18-month £6m investment period.

Packaging printer Cornwallis Company (Cheshire) has been acquired out of administration and has changed its name to D&M Packaging.

Koenig & Bauer has rejected the findings of the Smithers Pira report into the productivity of used sheetfed presses, while arch-rival Heidelberg – which PrintWeek has learned paid for the study – has...

Birmingham-based security printer A1 Security Print has rounded off a circa-£370,000 18-month spend on Xerox equipment with the installation of a Versant 180 digital press and Nuvera 144.

Smithers Pira has ignited a debate about press productivity with the publication of a white paper on the performance of pre-owned presses that comes down heavily in Heidelberg’s favour.

Opus Trust Marketing has invested just shy of £2m in new mailing lines from Pitney Bowes in a bid to handle an upsurge in short-run mailing jobs.

Communisis has committed 500 employee hours a year to mental health awareness after formally agreeing to sign a Time to Change employer pledge.

Just Digital has ramped up its production firepower with two Xerox iGen 5s and a brace of Duplo iSaddle stitchers.

Konica Minolta has added the new MGI Jetvarnish 3D Evolution to its industrial printing product portfolio.

Beaverbrook House, The Printing Charity's home for industry retirees, recently hosted a networking session so that apprentices could meet retired printers.

DS Smith has acquired Romanian packaging and paper firms EcoPack and EcoPaper in a bid to extend its Eastern European reach.