Gravure

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...

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.

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.

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...

Bobst will return to private ownership if shareholders accept an offer from the group’s biggest shareholder.

Barry Hibbert, one of the industry’s most powerful and polarising figures, has died aged 61.

Printing of the UK’s top selling weekly magazine is being repatriated to the UK thanks to a fresh deal between Bauer and Prinovis.

Walstead Group has sealed a deal to print the Telegraph’s weekend supplements with production set to switch later this month.

Jo Francis wonders what will happen next in the latest saga involving UK web offset printers.

Bertelsmann Printing Group (BPG) has announced the planned closure of another gravure plant, reflecting a decade of structural decline in the European gravure market.