Gravure

German gravure printer TSB will close its doors at the end of the month.

The European gravure printing market has been dealt a further blow after Germany’s Tiefdruck Schwann-Bagel (TSB) filed for insolvency just five months after being acquired by another continental...

The huge site in Liverpool previously occupied by Prinovis UK has been sold to a property investment company.

Continental printer Riccobono Group has become the biggest gravure printer in Europe after completing its takeover of Germany’s TSB.

Net sales at Walstead Group were up 11% last year, but operating margins slipped in the face of “huge and volatile” increases in input costs at the pan-European business.

Walstead Group has appointed a new group CFO as the business targets growth and aims for a landmark turnover figure.

Media giant Bertelsmann has posted record sales, but it’s been a tough year for its printing division.

Prinovis is to wind down its last remaining print plant, heralding the swansong of gravure technology at its parent, German media giant Bertelsmann.

Continental printers are hoping to pick up work as a result of next year’s closure of Prinovis UK – while Walstead Group expects that many of the products currently printed gravure will transition to...

It’s the end of an era for publication gravure printing in the UK with news that the last remaining exponent – Prinovis in Liverpool – is to close.