Web offset

Walstead’s acquisition of continental web offset printer LSC Poland has officially completed.

Prinovis UK is adding web offset to its production facilities with the purchase of the 16pp Goss M600A hybrid web offset press from the shuttered G&H site.

Agfa Graphics has signed a deal with Chinese plate manufacturer Lucky HuaGuang Graphics to produce plates, initially for the Chinese market.

Manchester print firm G&H has now officially gone into administration.

A number of employees have been laid off at the sheetfed and digital operations of G&H Print Services, and the firm’s website has been taken down.

The merger between Manroland Web Systems and Goss International’s printing press business has completed.

G&H has sought protection from its creditors as it searches for a buyer to take over the business after suffering a six-figure bad debt.

An employee at Wyndeham Bicester has died following an incident involving a roll clamp truck.

Walstead has made another huge continental acquisition – the group is taking over the €200m (£179m) turnover web offset business in Poland that used to be owned by RR Donnelley.

Walstead Group has completed the acquisition of Austrian web offset printer NP Druck.

The latest European consolidation play has resulted in a continental print group sharpening its focus on the UK market for retail print.

Walstead Group has appointed investment banker NM Rothschild to advise on future financing options that will satisfy the group’s appetite for more M&A deals.