Review of 2017: August

All the biggest stories from the past 12 months.

Williams Lea Tag laid off around 100 staff, as speculation mounted that a sell-off was imminent. It was sold later in the month to private equity business Advent International... Leycol Printers merged with the UK operation of US-based Diversified Global Graphics Group (DG3), creating a circa-£23m company... Direct Colour installed a B2 Komori Lithrone S29 H-UV machine, its first step into UV curing... Communisis won the HSBC marcomms work previously handled by St Ives... Landa Digital Printing shipped its first press, hailing the event with the words “printing will never be the same again”... The company formerly known as Houseprint appeared to have changed identity again... Cardiff Printing Company closed its doors and all staff were sent home, according to a source. A second source said that staff were not paid for July... Reflex Group acquired in-mould label specialist West Yorkshire Printing Company (WyPrint)... The Gelpack group of companies went into administration, resulting in 175 redundancies. Coveris bought kit, including two Hosokawa Alpine co-extrusion lines, from the stricken business... Ultimate Digital installed a second HP Indigo 20000 digital press... Taylor Bloxham Group invested just over £1m in two new Muller Martini finishing machines... Duplo UK managing director Peter Jolly revealed he was moving to HP to head up its UK Indigo and inkjet division... Gomer Press spent£1.7m on a Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 106 LE-UV... A blaze at P2P Mailing’s warehouse burned it to the ground, despite more than 100 firefighters tackling the fire... A “major incident” at Stora Enso’s Veitsiluoto mill halted production on PM2, putting a further squeeze on supplies of uncoated papers...