Harrogate-based print business, Platinum, has made a further investment in plant at its Hookstone Park premises bringing its total investment this year to over £1,000,000 as well as adding to the staff with a new apprentice. The firm’s latest investment in technology is in a Horizon B2+ fully automated folder with a
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Platinum investment breaks new ground – again!
Harrogate-based printer, Platinum has announced further investment in new technology at its Hookstone Park base. Earlier this year the firm became the first UK company to install the ground-breaking Komori HUV printing press at a value of £750,000. The latest investment is in digital inkjet flat-bed printing technology and is part of
Harrogate print specialist speaks at national industry event
Mark Plummer of Harrogate print firm, Platinum, has been invited to speak at a leading print industry event, Forward Thinking Printing in London in July. The event is hosted by Print Business Magazine and is attended by around 100 representatives from the top printing companies in the UK. Mark Plummer, who
Thunderbirds are Go! for the Platinum bed race team
Platinum, the printing company based on Hookstone Park in Harrogate, is gearing up for the annual Knaresborough Bed Race on Saturday, June 14, with a strong team of runners from the business dressed as the classic puppet characters, the Thunderbirds. The theme of this year’s Bed Race is Children’s Television and
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Platinum makes £750,000 investment in print technlogy
Harrogate’s Platinum Print has broken new ground in the UK with the installation of a new £750,000 four-colour Komori Lithrone S429 with Komori’s innovative H-UV drying technology. The press is the first H-UV Komori press to be up-and-running in the UK. Mark Plummer, newly appointed as managing director at Platinum after 23
Starting from the bottom is key to printer’s success
“If you want to be successful in business, start at the bottom.” This expression might have been expressly written for Platinum Print’s newly-appointed managing director, Mark Plummer, for his career in the printing industry literally began in a basement. Mark said: “My first proper job was working for a firm called Courtesy Print