News

Durst has acquired Aleph to strengthen its position in water-based and sustainable printing technologies. The move also serves Durst as a bridge to Como, Italy, seen as the centre for textile design/applications.

Soyang Europe/Josero have been appointed approved resellers of the VeloBlade range of digital die cutters from Vivid Laminating Technologies. The deal was announced to coincide with The Print Show, where Vivid has launched its VeloBlade Board Runner.

HP has unveiled its 64in-wide Latex 630 Series printer range, promising the smallest PSPs entry to white ink applications. The company has also announced a HP PrintOS Design and eCommerce Web-to-print solution to extend their market reach.

The Fujifilm Acuity Prime Hybrid printer previewed at Fespa Global 2023 is now commercially available in Europe following a successful beta trial in the UK.

Exclusive UK and Ireland Mimaki distributor Hybrid Services has brought two new UV printers to market - the UJV100-160Plus and UCJV330-160.

Innotech Digital has partnered with Liyu UK to release a swatch book of PVC-free, backlit and other digital display media that are fully tested and approved for the Liyu range of UV LED printers.

Manufacturing trade body Make UK has cut its forecast for the sector's growth for this year and next, citing a sharp fall in factory output and economic uncertainty.

POPAI will run a short webinar on 27 September focused on its Sustain eco design tool developed specifically for the POP industry.

ArtSystems has a new technical team service operations manager - Bradley (Brad) Davis has been promoted to the role after more than ten years with the team.

Karl Norman has joined PrintFactory as textile and large-format printing application specialist. Norman moves from Durst where he spent over a decade providing technical colour management and printer/media settings support and optimisation for end users. There he also conducted internal training as well as training customers and sales channels.

Software company Dataline has acquired Spanish company Palmart, a developer of ERP/MIS solutions for the printing and packaging industry, to strengthen its European positioning. A number of other acquisitions and cooperation agreements in different European countries are underway, several of which are well advanced and expected to complete in the next few months. 

Ken Archbold has joined Compass Business Finance as head of credit. Over the next three to five years, Compass is looking to double the amount of money it is putting into the market via its own book and intermediaries. To achieve this Compass is making sure it has the right people in place, along with the systems and processes to support its relational approach to finance.

CMYUK has become the exclusive UK/Ireland distributor of the Chinese-made JWEI JCUT digital cutting systems.

Exhibition stand design and build contractor Quadrant2Design has become the first company in the UK to adopt InkTec’s new 3.2m Jetrix XGR320 roll-to-roll LED UV printer. It will be used to produce exhibition stand photo floors.