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• CB Printforce

Clays steps in to pick up TJ

One of the country’s powerhouse book printers has acquired TJ Books, the latest mid sized business to hit trouble. Clays has acquired TJ Books in a prepack sale of the stricken Padstow book printer. The deal preserves 130 jobs in North Cornwall including those of managing director Andy Watts and finance director Andy Adams, at […]

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3 March 2025
• Book Design & Production Awards

Thin pickings for UK printers in Book Design Awards

Chinese and Italian printers took most of the honours in the Book Design & Production Awards, though British print carried off the book of the night award. The impact of British printers in the Book Design & Production Awards was markedly less this year than in 2024. But Kingsbury Press did collect the Book of […]

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3 February 2025
Autobox

Kolbus joins engineering investment group

Kolbus has left administration in what is hailed as the best possible outcome after being placed in administration in July. Kolbus has been acquired from a lengthy period of administration while two other German suppliers of finishing equipment remain in the hands of administrators. The producer of case making, rigid box equipment and rotary die […]

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9 December 2024
AI

Spines to use AI to shake up book world

A tech start up plans to use AI to slash the time and effort required to bring a book to market and so publish 8,000 titles a year. An online book publishing platform powered by artificial intelligence says it will produce 8,000 titles in a year and will cut the time from manuscript to binding […]

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9 December 2024
CMC

HALL 14 Going by the book

The hall for specialist book binding equipment with adhesive suppliers alongside manufacturers showing equipment for short run often hardcover books. Hall 14 begins the turn back towards the main administrative centre and the starting point of the tour. It features bookbinding equipment, a hangover from the days that Hall 13 was owned by Muller Martini […]

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21 May 2024
BCorps

British print wins big in Book Design & Production Awards

British printers have won more categories in the latest book production awards than for many years, pushing Asian and European businesses into the background. British printers achieved more category wins in the British Book Design & Production Awards this year than at any previous ceremony in recent memory.  Whether this is an indication that mainstream […]

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29 January 2024