Client News

Meech International has been presented with the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: International Trade by Brigadier Dennis Blease PhD – one of the Lord Lieutenant’s Deputy Lieutenants. This is the third time in ten years that Meech has been awarded the UK’s most prestigious award for business achievement, having previously won the accolade in 2009 and 2012. The presentation was made to Meech’s CEO, Chris Francis and the whole of the UK team at its headquarters in Witney, Oxfordshire on July 26^th, 2019.

PPMA Total Show 2019 will open its doors at the NEC, Birmingham, from 1 – 3 October for what will be the most comprehensive production line event in the UK.

Bristol, UK – 25 JULY 2019 – Spandex, the one-stop supplier of innovative solutions to the sign, graphics and display industries, is launching the latest addition to the established ImagePerfect range of specialist window and glass films. Ideal for short term promotion, ImagePerfect 2926 Easy Glass is an ultra-clear printable self-adhesive polyester window film designed for ease of use even by non-professional installers, such as retail staff.

Since 1980, Hampshire-based Ashford Colour Press has been providing printing and binding services to a diverse range of publishers, including large educational and academic brands like Pearson and Oxford University Press. In response to the rapidly changing book printing industry, Ashford is developing its Gosport facilities to further improve its services to customers. It has a new factory set-up, including a revamped pre-press department which, following a successful assessment in March 2019, now includes Fujifilm’s XMF Workflow Solution, two new ZAC processors, low chemistry Superia LH-PLE plates and Fujifilm’s flagship pre-press programme, PLATESENSE.

Based in Stroud, Gloucestershire, Paul Norman Plastics (PNP) is a leading provider of plastic injected moulded products that, for over thirty years, have served a wide range of industries; from aerospace and electronics to education and retail. The company recently installed a Meech energy saving air curtain to reduce waste and boost production efficiencies on one of its injection moulding machines.

At Labelexpo Europe 2019, Meech International (Stand 6C34) will be presenting its latest technological developments to support label production, including; CyCleanTM R, Hyperion IonCharge 50-75w and IonCharge 30, and the HyperionTM 960IPS. Meech will also be displaying its other well-established static control and web cleaning products.

Tuebingen, Germany (July 16, 2019) – GMG, the leading developer and provider of high-quality color management software solutions, will demonstrate at Labelexpo Europe, September 24-27, in Brussels its latest color management and workflow tools for the automated use of individual profiles at booth A22 in hall 6. “Our latest developments offer the packaging printing industry a large number of opportunities,” says Roger Albert, Director Sales EMEA. “With the connection of GMG ColorServer to GMG OpenColor we pave the way for the automated use of customized profiles in the daily workflow.”

Fujifilm today announces that reputable German commercial print company Straub Druck + Medien AG, based in Schramberg, installed a Jet Press 750S in May 2019 to meet growing business demands. A long-term Fujifilm customer, the company already owned two Jet Press 720S presses, making this the company’s third Fujifilm Jet Press installation. Straub Druck + Medien produces a range of high quality printed products, both long and short run, including brochures for luxury brands, short-run promotional packaging and calendars and mailings for regional, national and international customers. It also offers a wide variety of processing and finishing options for all applications.

PPMA Group is today issuing a ‘Final Call for Entries’ to the 2019 PPMA Group Industry Awards. All companies within the packaging and processing sector are invited to submit their FREE submission by the deadline of 17 July 2019.

The PPMA Total Show 2019, which takes place at the NEC in Birmingham from 1 to 3 October, has announced a first-class, industry-responsive conference programme devised to focus on some of the key issues facing modern manufacturing, including Brexit, serialisation and packaging design, as well as tackling the debate surrounding sustainability and the circular economy.

FESPA Global Print Expo 2019, which took place 14 to 17 May 2019, delivered an insightful and interactive array of event features, providing visitors to the exhibition with the opportunity to discover new possibilities for their businesses through educational content and live technology and workflow demonstrations.

Fujifilm today announces a restructuring of its senior management team in its UK Graphics Systems business. At a time when offset printers are under greater pressure than ever from the combined challenges of rising aluminium prices, falling print runs and advancing digital print technology, continued innovation and creative thinking are essential. Innovations like Fujifilm’s PLATESENSE programme are examples of the sort of forward-thinking required to keep driving this sector forward. As the initiator of this programme, Chris Broadhurst, the former General Manager of the UK Graphic Systems Division, has been promoted to Head of Offset in the European Graphic Systems business to manage the company’s offset business and drive this kind of initiative forward on a European level. Broadhurst’s role will be based in Dusseldorf, and starts immediately.