Watershed moment for Aire Valley Leeds enterprise zone
6 July 2012
Watershed Packaging has announced plans to build a brand new manufacturing facility at Thornes Farm, becoming the first company to take advantage of incentives on offer to businesses locating in the new Aire Valley Leeds enterprise zone. The enterprise zone, which went live at the beginning of April 2012, covers 142 hectares of prime development
Agfa Graphics plant wins top business award for sustainability
25 November 2011
Agfa Graphics’ Leeds plant has been rewarded for its efforts to eliminate waste and encourage biodiversity with a top business award at the 2011 Institution of Mechanical Engineers’ Manufacturing Excellence Awards.
Investments Power Communisis Growth
27 July 2011
The Leeds-based division of marketing services provider Communisis PLC is the UK’s largest print and direct mail production site, employing 420 staff on round the clock shifts and is a key part of the £193m turnover group. Recent investment of £3m in a second HP T300 digital output device, the only two of their kind
World Class Leeds Print Shop Trials New Kodak Process
4 March 2011
A Leeds print company’s reputation as an industry leader in direct mail ideas has led to it becoming a Beta site for trialling a revolutionary technique for a new, four colour ink-jet process developed by Kodak. The Lettershop Group (TLG) has been selected to run the trials on the process that allows personalisation of printed
Rapid Growth On Cards For Craft Firm
26 July 2010
An exclusive watershed deal with TV shopping channel QVC promises to deliver up to 40% of new sales for Leeds-based Craftwork Cards. Twelve years of steady growth have seen Sue Taylor’s bespoke greeting card company approaching a forecast £1.2m turnover this year and a 15-strong workforce recently located to new 7000 sq ft headquarters in
Next Generation Agfa Product Helps Industry & Environment
9 July 2010
Agfa UK’s Leeds plant at Seacroft is working round the clock to satisfy the rapidly growing worldwide demand for its latest innovation in printing plate technology, the Thermo-Fuse chemistry free computer to plate (CTP) product range. Following the success of its market-leading Lithostar printing plate, Agfa has now developed the “next generation” Thermo-Fuse – a
Rare Print Jewel Turns Art Into Science
22 July 2009
A Leeds printing company launched successfully in the depths of the 1970’s recession is bucking the current downturn and thriving in a fiercely competitive market place with a state of the art £200,000 digital press the latest in a series of investments. Jade Print was established by former copier technician Dennis Shepherd at the height
World Power Chase Relies On Pool Resources
11 June 2009
The dash by emerging economies for improved infrastructures means good news and new jobs for one of the Leeds district’s longest established companies. Pool-in-Wharfedale based Weidmann Whiteley has long been a serious producer of insulation products for the global power industry and as countries including China, Brazil and India propel the worldwide demand for electricity,
Festive Pies Deliver Slice Of Profit Staff
7 January 2007
Staff at a progressive Leeds print company received an extra slice of the pie new year in the form of a 20% share of the firm’s net profit for previous year. In the highly competitive print market, award-winning Duffield Printers has prospered through a flat management structure and empowerment of staff at all levels. And
Star Product Keeps Agfa At Leading Edge of World Print
1 January 2006
A Leeds manufacturing site has doubled productivity in the past five years and is now leading the world in litho printing technology. The success of Agfa UK’s Seacroft plant and its global brand leading Lithostar printing plate represents a microcosm of the sweeping changes in print technology in the digital age. Following a 2004 €6m