Web offset

Group Riccobono will have the closest gravure operation to the UK when Liverpool closes

Prinovis news shifts supplier landscape

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...

Prinovis: reputation for customer focus, flexibility and delivering great quality products on time

Prinovis UK to close due to market decline and spiralling costs

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.

Some of Immediate Media's magazine brands, including TOTP bottom right

Immediate culls jobs, closes title as costs balloon amid economic woes

Radio Times publisher Immediate Media is closing one magazine and making more than 50 people redundant in the face of a “steep decline” in trading and a £9m increase in costs including paper and...

Fraser: highly-respected for his print and production expertise

Web and gravure expert Alan Fraser passes away

Alan Fraser, who held senior roles at some of the biggest names in the web and gravure printing industry of the day including Watmoughs, Quebecor World and Polestar, has died aged 70.

New edition of Rolling Stone is a must-have for Harry's huge fanbase

Harry Styles a hitmaker for Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone magazine has ordered a rapid reprint after its new issue sold out immediately when pop megastar Harry Styles was revealed as the cover star.

Adphos: even partial gas reduction can be paid back within less than two years

Adphos cuts energy bills with drying tech

Adphos is urging printers to consider the use of alternative drying systems in the face of spiralling energy prices, in particular for gas, and the potential for restricted gas supplies in some...

Walstead: exciting times at its UK operation

Senior management moves at Walstead

Walstead has switched up its senior management team as additional equipment is installed at its Bicester site following the group’s purchase of YM’s web offset assets.

Ancient House: focus on EBITDA, not turnover

Ancient House back in the black

Ancient House Printing Group has filed its first set of results since last year’s change of ownership.

Scanlon: we cannot stimulate demand if paper is too expensive

Walstead: results reflect relentless focus on core competencies

Walstead chairman Mark Scanlon has described the group as being “well and truly stress-tested” last year as it tackled unprecedented increases in input costs – as well as the lingering effects of the...

YM Group, as was

Former YM director calls for investigation into group's affairs

A former director of YM Group has gone public with his concerns about the way the business was being run long before its web division collapsed and the group went into administration – and claims...