Web offset

Flint: costs have to be passed on if supplies are to be maintained

Flint brings in monthly surcharge

Flint Group’s Commercial Publication Web (CPW) division has announced that it is introducing a monthly surcharge for web offset printers worldwide due to “hyperinflation” of ink costs.

Filthy 48pp Lithoman III: could it scrub up nicely?

YM web and bindery kit up for sale

Printing and post-press kit from YM’s Pindar and York Mailing sites is being offered for sale by private treaty.

York Mailing: could Elvington site be resurrected?

Deadline looms for YM web sales

It’s a crucial week for future web offset capacity in the UK as the deadline looms for bids on YM Group’s former web offset sites and assets.

TV Choice: supplies at 80% of normal levels for some regions

Magazines run late after YM web collapse

The fallout from the abrupt closure of YM Group’s three web offset sites continues, with some weekly titles running late and all eyes on the Daily Mail’s first in-house production of its Weekend...

Weekend and You are key parts of the Mail's weekend package

DMG brings Weekend in-house

DMG Media has started printing Weekend in-house after the collapse of YM Group’s web division forced the media group to pull forward its plans to produce the title on its own presses.

Pindar Scarborough: will site remain shuttered?

No word yet from Pricoa on YM web debacle

YM Group backer Pricoa is yet to comment on the collapse of the group's three web offset sites, which were placed into administration yesterday.

YM Group: bosses slammed for "disgraceful behaviour"

Administrators take charge at YM web plants

YM Group’s plans to be a dominant player in UK web offset have collapsed into chaos, with FRP Advisory appointed as the administrator of the group's three web division businesses, and staff left...

YM Chantry: agency staff were sent home last night

Anxious YM workers demand clarity

Nervous workers at YM’s three up-for-sale web plants are awaiting clarity from the group’s bosses about the future for the sites, after Walstead apparently withdrew its interest in a possible rescue...

Nick Germani (left) of Showcase Pallets with driver Walter Runciman. Image: The York Press

Creditor takes direct action at York Mailing

Access to YM Group’s York Mailing site has been blocked by a creditor owed a five-figure sum by the business.

YM: asking employees to take a 'business as usual' approach

YM employees 'will be paid'

YM Group has assured employees that they will be paid this month, as the deadline looms in the fast-track sale process of its web offset sites.