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Workers at Polestar Chantry have agreed to new terms and conditions that could pave the way for new ownership and save more than 150 jobs at the site – and the potential purchaser is also interested...

Walstead has secured £33m of private equity backing for its acquisition of Leykam Let’s Print.

Workers at Polestar’s Sheffield web offset site have been told the facility will cease operation with immediate effect. Sheffield’s gravure operation is also being wound down, and will stop printing...

A major publishing client of Polestar Sheffield has been told by administrators that the plant will continue printing this weekend and next.

Agfa Graphics is introducing a series of “affordable” engines that focus on CTP technology for newspaper web-offset printing.

CirclePrinters has filled the sales void caused by the death of Angus Jurkschat by recruiting a senior salesperson from Polestar.

Polestar chief executive Barry Hibbert is no longer with the business.

Speculation is mounting over the future ownership of Polestar’s up-for-sale operations, with a new name now in the frame as a potential buyer.

The future ownership of Polestar’s factories and assets remains up in the air as administrators at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) assess a number of bids for the business.

Polestar employees fear some factories ‘could shut down tomorrow’ if a buyer or buyers cannot be found for the businesses, as more redundancies are made at the group and a major publisher shifts...

Administrators at PricewaterhouseCoopers have confirmed that 183 redundancies have been made at Polestar.

Time Inc’s Guy Gleysteen has jetted into the UK to address the crisis in the publisher’s supply chain due to the situation at Polestar.