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Agfa on front foot with Inca CMYUK’s new
service
sales consignment stock holding a
CMYUK is set to make

standard offering to all its UK
customers, subject to status.
Agfa has signed its first Digital Print & Chemicals
contracts for the Inca wing. While sales of sign and The wide-format kit and
Speedset single-pass display products grew materials supplier said pal-
sheetfed inkjet press, and for strongly, its industrial inkjet letised consignment ship-
Agfa-branded Onset wide- for décor printing business ments are now available to
format printers. was hit by postponed orders organisations that have large
internal repositories, while
Speaking as the group due to the weakening eco-
announced its Q3 results, nomic environment with those lacking space will be
given a free bespoke shelf
CEO Pascal Juéry said that construction and décor firms racked container for the
Agfa was also taking over in Europe focusing their external storage of roll mate-
Inca sales from Fujifilm spend on insulation and rials. These are condensa-
slightly earlier than originally Inca Speedset: development is on track energy. However, Agfa said tion-proof, secure, and can
envisaged. Agfa completed the acqui- print at 150m/min, or that décor sales were hold material rolls up to
“This will cost us a bit in expected to bounce back. 5m-wide.
the short-term, but we are sition of Inca in June. 11,000sph B1, with the first Agfa said it was preparing CMYUK will open the
going to be able to plug our Juéry also said that Inca model targeted at folding car- “additional measures” to doors of its Shrewsbury-
inks into these machines,” he was fully on track with devel- tons. Agfa has hinted that the address the challenges in based demonstration and
stated. Juéry said that mar- opment of the next Speedset device “might get wider, it Digital Print & Chemicals training facility to new and
gins on the Inca products model for packaging. might print corrugated”. and at its Radiology Solutions existing customers for its
would be “higher than on our The B1 format Speedset The results involved some- wing, as well as outlining its final open house event of
previous portfolio”. has a flat substrate path and thing of a mixed picture at its post-offset structure. 2022 later this week.
WTTB adds new products in KGK Genix in schools

time for Christmas upcycling initiative

Where The Trade Buys KGK Genix has imple-
(WTTB) has added a num- mented a new Eco recycling
ber of new items to its per- scheme by partnering with
sonalised product offering, local high schools and sup-
including snowglobes, bau- plying waste off-cut materials
bles, mugs, aprons and jour- that students can repurpose
nals. and upcycle in creative,
Louise Stephenson, man- design, and technology
aging director of WTTB, said classes. The company has
she hoped the new items formed an upcycling partner-
would be well received. ship with three high schools
She said: “We are always Its new product offering includes gift and Christmas-themed items – Mark Hall Academy, Burnt Matt Walsh, operations director
looking at ways of helping Mill Academy, and Presdales
our customers grow their which represent over printed on its HP Indigo digi- Academy – which are local to the brainchild of Matt Walsh,
businesses and giving them a 18,500sqm combined. It tal presses. its production sites in operations director at KGK
wider selection of merchan- employs over 500 staff, and The new product launches Harlow, Essex and Genix Harlow. KGK Genix is
dise to offer is a great way to turns over more than £35m. follow WTTB’s February Thundridge, Hertfordshire. planning to expand the upcy-
do that, particularly as we Products will be printed on launch of its self-publishing Materials included in the cling initiative offer to other
head towards the busiest a variety of machines in service, Super Book Centre. initiative include fabrics,
time of the year.” WTTB’s stable: aprons, for Earlier in the year, to pub- foam boards, cardboard, educational institutions in
WTTB, part of the example, on the firm’s licise the service, it held a papers, and vinyls. Students the local area.
Precision Proco group, sells - Sawgrass 500 desktop subli- competition, encouraging will be able to repurpose Earlier this year the busi-
largely to print resellers - mation printer, and phone members of the public to sub- these materials to design and ness upgraded its superwide-
from its four UK sites in cases on a Mimaki UJF-6042 mit their book proposals to a make other products as part format offering with the
Dagenham, Park Royal, UV printer.Playing and panel of WTTB judges and of their school classes and installation of an EFI Vutek
Sunderland and Sheffield, greetings cards will be see their idea in print. projects.The initiative was h5 printer.
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