Flexo

Superfast Labels is celebrating a significant bump in its turnover six months after installing the UK’s first Epson SurePress L-6034VW printer.

Ultimate Digital has installed a second HP Indigo 20000 digital press, becoming the first company in the UK to do so.

Reflex Group has acquired in-mould label (IML) specialist West Yorkshire Printing Company (WyPrint), in a bid to create a "strong, British contender".

Gallus will be showing its new Labelmaster Advanced, an extension of its flagship Labelmaster press, at Labelexpo Europe next month.

Reflex Group is in the final stages of a re-equip of its label division that has seen £9m invested in 2017 and is intended to combat rising input costs and standardise production.

Epson has launched its SurePress L-4533 series of short-run label presses.

KBA is set to build a new digital and flexo press demo centre at its main Wurzburg plant in Germany.

CPS Flexible and Mercury Packaging have merged, forming a £15m-turnover company.

The Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT) is to close its Harmsworth Printing Didcot site, putting around 50 jobs at risk.

Corrugated packaging specialist Atlas Packaging has invested more than £1.75m in a bespoke flexo press to improve and enhance its packaging process.

Flint Group has launched two new offset inks, four LED and low-energy curing inks and two food-grade UV curing inks for food packaging printing on board and synthetics.

CTP manufacturer Cron (5-B24) has unveiled six new products at Drupa, which it said will take it into broader fields of offset press optimisation, plate production and flexo packaging.