Atlas Packaging has made a £1m investment to take on the first Bobst ExpertFold 230 A4 folder-gluer in the UK to come with Accueject XL automated ejection capabilities. The Expertfold 230 A4 can make four- and six-corner crash-lock containers, and four-corner boxes Installed in the run up to Christmas, the machine is coming [...]
Langham Press has moved on from hand-fed stitching for the first time with the introduction of a Horizon SPF-200L bookletmaker to its portfolio ahead of an imminent relocation. The Horizon SPF-200L will work alongside Langham's Develop Ineo+ 6100 Arriving at Langham’s Cambridge base in December last year, the new machine was supplied by [...]
Late payment culture’s end “could finally be in sight” as yesterday’s Spring Statement laid out policies that would tackle the issue perpetuated by larger businesses. Hammond: "We need to tackle the scourge of late payments" Philip Hammond spoke to Parliament yesterday (13 March) amid a flurry of Brexit mania to give his springtime [...]
Campaigners have spoken about their hopes for the John Jarrold Printing Museum in Norwich, the future of which will be decided tomorrow (14 March), to be preserved in its current form. Litho stone featuring the St James Mill building in Norwich. Image: JJPM The museum would be forced to relocate if Norwich City [...]
Agfa has revamped its divisional structure and created three separate divisions for its print-related activities, as the group seeks more partnerships for future growth. The former Agfa Graphics business will have a new shape in 2019 Speaking as Agfa-Gevaert Group announced its year-end results to 31 December 2018, chief executive Christian Reinaudo said [...]
Dutch media has reported that Fujifilm is set to close one of its offset plate production lines in Tilburg at the end of the year, resulting in the loss of more than 100 jobs, with some UK jobs also understood to be under threat. 111 jobs could go at Fujifilm's Tilburg site. Image: [...]
Midland Regional Printers (MRP) has expanded its service offering after acquiring label printing specialist LabelServe. (L-R) LabelServe manager Darren Catterns and MRP managing director Stephen Bates, technical director Michael Tew and sales and marketing director Catherine Tew Producing a wide range of printed logo, wash care and self-adhesive fabric labels, LabelServe services retail [...]
Sister companies Heritage Envelopes and Eagle Envelopes are to install a W+D Halm i-Jet2 envelope printer, the first in England, in a bid to capture the short-run envelopes market. W+D’s Halm iJet2 is capable of printing up to 32,000 envelopes/hr With manufacturing and flexographic printing carried out at Heritage’s base in Blackburn, the [...]
Three businesses are now in contention to buy the Creative Papers aspect of Arjowiggins’ UK operations, which is currently in administration. Arjo UK staff are set to receive their salaries as normal this week In an update seen by PrintWeek, Arjowiggins’ Chartham mill manager Mark Hobday told staff that administrators FRP Advisory had [...]
Walkers Instore has gone into voluntary liquidation after its owners could not restore its profitability despite attempts to restructure and reposition the retail POS specialist print operation as a finisher. Barrow: We provided considerable financial support for the business, but this could not continue indefinitely Manchester-based Walkers Instore was created following the administration [...]
