Gravure

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

Walstead Group has agreed a new facility with Close Brothers Asset Finance as part of a simplification of financing across the business.

Printing ‘Smoking kills’ onto every individual cigarette could discourage smokers, according to new research.

Walstead chairman Mark Scanlon believes insolvency “remains a real threat” for some competitors, but said his own group’s position was very different as the business announced its highest sales yet at...

A new hybrid paper suitable for gravure or heatset web offset printing is now available thanks to a collaboration between Craft Worldwide, papermaker Leipa and printer Prinovis.

Prinovis UK has officially launched its new web offset printing capability with a VIP event attended by customers and potential customers, at which the company also unveiled a major sustainability...

Union chiefs on the continent are holding a crisis meeting today following recent events at stricken web and gravure printer Circle Media Group. While former Roto Smeets CEO John Caris has told...

Circle Media Group has hit the buffers and appears likely to disappear from print altogether – its Austrian web offset business is the latest subsidiary to file for bankruptcy, while the rest of the...

Struggling European print group Circle Media Group has filed for administration for Roto Smeets, the Dutch holding company of Roto Smeets Deventer, Roto Smeets Weert and Senefelder Misset in...

Sales at Walstead have breached the €500m barrier but profits are down after the group battled against falling print budgets and rising paper prices last year.

Circle Media Group has reacted to complaints from union representatives on the continent, describing the claims as “unfounded, unsubstantiated and harmful to our businesses”.

Circle Media Group’s Hélio Charleroi gravure printing business has filed for bankruptcy.