Finishing

The Westdale Press has brought case binding in-house with three machines from Kolbus UK as it looks to grow its premium books and book-style marketing products businesses.

Watkiss Automation’s new hand-fed bookletmaker, the PowerSquare 160-WH, has been launched to target the A4 landscape market.

Terry Cooper Services (TCS) has added the new Grafcut LCl 80 die-cutting system to its portfolio.

Trade finisher Ace Binding has invested in the UK’s first Renz Inline 500 Classic fully automatic punching and ring wire-binding machine.

Charing Cross Print has concluded a 12-month, circa £380,000 re-equip that has seen it invest in machines from Duplo, Xerox, Vivid and Ideal.

Garment decoration manufacturer J&A International has installed its second Baumann Wohlenberg 115 guillotine this year.

Intec has unveiled its second-generation foiler and laminator, the ColorFlare CF1200.

Flexpress has completed its transformation to become a full-service trade printer after investing in a Horizon StitchLiner 5500 with two VAC-1000 tower collators.

Creasing matrix and profile rubbers manufacturer C&T Channel Matrix has launched what it calls “a brand new concept in PVC creasing matrix”.

DTP has taken on a Magnum MCC-35AS cutter-creaser from Vivid Laminating Technologies to increase its efficiency.

Gallus has unveiled the Smartfire, an all-in-one digital label production line designed for the ultra-short-run entry-level market.

Resource has invested in a Foliant Taurus 530 NG laminator and a Horizon StitchLiner Mark III from Intelligent Finishing Systems (IFS).