Wide format

Kernow Coatings has expanded its portfolio with a range of new products.

EFI has appointed former Xerox executive Grant Fitz as its new chief financial officer as Marc Olin becomes chief operating officer.

Inprint Colour has made a double Ricoh investment in order to strengthen its flatbed capabilities and to add garment printing to its offering.

Hexcite Group has been launched as the new £60m-turnover unifying brand identity of Gardners, Kesslers and SFD, which were recently brought together in a series of acquisitions.

Oris Packaging Innovations has added the Roland DG VersaUV S-Series as an option for its Flex Pack/Web packaging proofing bundle to increase the bed size available to users.

Field marketing agency Tactical Solutions is being put up for sale because its owner, also the former owner of SP Group and Service Graphics, has gone into administration.

Pyramid Display Materials has acquired the assets, stock and goodwill of plastic substrates distributor and fabrication house POS Plastics.

SwissQprint has ended its exclusive UK reseller partnership with Spandex and moving to direct sales and support in the UK.

Onyx Graphics’ software suite has been approved for use on the Stitch S series, the new line of wide-format textiles printers from HP.

Discount Displays has brought in an HP Latex R2000 Plus to do the work of two machines as it looks to speed up its display graphics capabilities.

Sales at Grafenia are up but operating losses have more than doubled under the weight of one-off and up-front costs including its expansion into the US. However, the business remains on the M&A trail...

Wide-format specialist CSDPrint is on track to report a record turnover after a 28% increase year-on-year in the first six month of 2019, largely down to new customers and kit investments.