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WIDE FORMAT & POSTPRESS NEWS

Limetree Printing expands CyanX gets GSE
agent in UK
with Pro-S acquisition and ink-handling software
Ink dispensing systems

provider GSE has appointed
CyanX as its agent for the UK
Downham Market com- crisps, just as an example – I and Ireland. The agreement,
mercial printer Limetree would never expect to print effective as of 1 July, covers
Printing has expanded its the packets, but they will GSE’s Colorsat ink dispens-
offering with the total acqui- have maintenance tags and ing systems for accurate and
sition of nearby shadow other printed material that instant preparation of print-
board and signage manufac- we can produce. Just being ing colours, and its Ink man-
turer Pro-S UK. Inked on 21 able to offer everything ager management software
June, the deal saw Limetree under one roof [alongside suite of programs.
buy Pro-S’ assets, IP and Pro-S] is going to be a plus Headquartered in
order book, and take on all for a lot of the customers.” Guiseley, CyanX will provide
of its employees, taking Over the next month, sales and after-sales service to
Limetree to a total of 11 staff Limetree will fit out Pro-S’ GSE’s label and packaging
and around £700,000 turno- Summers: The acquisition will open Limetree up to new markets site, also in Downham, customers and decor con-
ver. pany, the acquisition had boards, safety signage, and ready to combine most of verters.
Wayne Summers, manag- felt like a natural choice – as other industrial wide-format the two companies’ opera- The company’s team of
ing director and co-owner of well as a sound business work. tions under one roof, with factory-trained technicians
Limetree, said that the decision. “I’ve branched into that so Limetree’s Heidelberg four- will provide installation, on-
opportunity had come about Pro-S manufactures we can try push the print colour and two-colour GTOs site service, training, and
when Pro-S’ directors shadow boards – printed side of our business into the moving to the newly valve revision services. Its
decided to retire; being boards to hang tools from, internal side of the indus- acquired site, along with the service department also runs
nearby, and having a good with the outline of each tool trial sector,” Summers told firm’s Develop digital print- a 24/7 telephone support hel-
relationship with the com- printed – as well as dry erase Printweek. “Take Walker’s ers; one colour, one mono. pline.
‘Swiftie Steps’ installed for Ivo Textiles fined

Taylor Swift concert £71,000 for pollution

Fabric and wallpaper
Ashford large-format firm printer Ivo Textiles has been
Graphic Point worked ordered to pay £71,000 in
through the night to beat a damages for dumping chemi-
tight deadline and install a cals and textiles down its
bespoke staircase graphic for drains for four years.
Taylor Swift’s Wembley Prosecuted at Uxbridge
Stadium concerts in June.At Magistrates’ Court on 20
every stage a race against the May, the screen, rotary and
clock, the job saw 90sqm of digital printer was ordered to
print installed over pay £62,000 to the courts
Wembley’s ongoing ‘Spanish and £11,270 to Thames Fined for polluting sewers
Steps’ experiential market- Artist Frank Styles (sitting) poses with his ‘Auras’ artwork in London Water for legal costs.
ing project. The steps, printed from an due to the level of approvals Thames Water, which had been putting heavy met-
Right alongside the stair- original artwork, ‘Auras’ cre- required, involving stake- brought the case against Ivo als, ammonia, and fabric
case, another large format ated by artist Frank Styles in holders such as the GLA, the Textiles, first approached Ivo down its drains.
firm – West London’s his garage, was of particular Stadium, tour promoters Textiles in 2022 after sam-
Studiotwenty7 – installed 16 complexity. AEG, and Taylor’s manage- ples showed the firm had When approached by
1,500x1,000mm backlit Giambrone told been committing sewer Printweek, Ivo Textiles’
large-format film prints, Printweek that thanks to ment. The turnaround had abuse. board of directors shared the
with a similarly tight turna- scheduling constraints at to be quick, which was chal- After meeting with the following statement: “In
round: just four days to print Wembley – a different con- lenging for our small team, water company, Ivo Textiles March 2024, Ivo Textiles
and install. cert was due the Sunday especially given the time continued to exceed the lev- pleaded guilty to breaches of
Claudio Giambrone, prior – and IP-related hur- required to secure necessary els of waste permitted under
Wembley Park’s head of dles, the project was forced permissions [for IP] – but it its discharge consent agree- its consent limits in relation
marketing, oversaw the pro- to pick up a fast pace. was entirely worthwhile,” ment. to waste water discharges
ject. “This project was unique he said. Tests found Ivo Textiles into the public sewer.
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