Web offset

Walstead Group is set to further expand its continental footprint with the acquisition of Austrian printer NP Druck, while separately there are changes afoot at one of the group’s UK sites.

GD Web Offset and sister company EWO Media have switched to 24/7 working in order to absorb the work previously done on GD’s fire-damaged M4000, and the business has also secured fresh investment.

Walstead has further European buys in its sights after posting a huge jump in turnover in the first full year of consolidated results for the existing group.

Pre-media business Rhapsody has parted company with two directors following a difference of opinion over strategy.

The fire brigade was called to GD Web Offset yesterday after a drier on one of its heatset web offset presses exploded.

Koenig & Bauer is working “intensively” on new products for the packaging, digital and industrial printing markets, after filing a strong set of results for its latest financial year.

In the latest consolidation move in the high-volume printing arena CirclePrinters has made another acquisition, and has also set its sights on possible buys in the UK.

Goss International’s printing press business and Manroland Web Systems are to combine, with Contiweb set to become a standalone company.

Stones Ashford had an estimated deficiency of more than £4m when it was shut down, with sister site Henry Stone in Banbury named as one of the firm’s largest creditors.

Bosses at Henry Stone Printers have been accused of ‘stealing Christmas’ after employees at sister site Stones Ashford were not paid their November wages, while the promised administrator is yet to...

Some employees at Stones Ashford have now received an official communication about what happens next at the stricken site.

Stones Ashford has been shut down abruptly after the company's power was cut off by its energy supplier.