Printers

Walstead Group has acquired most of the assets of YM Group’s shuttered web offset businesses in administration – and could reboot one of the factories if customer support makes it viable.

Events at troubled YM Group took a dramatic turn over the bank holiday weekend when the landlord repossessed Lettershop’s Leeds site.

A fourth member of an organised crime group has been jailed for conspiring to supply more than £12m of counterfeit banknotes.

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

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.

Arc-UK Technologies has moved manufacturing from London to a modern new facility in Dartford where it plans to expand and push forward its ambitions to be carbon neutral.

Commercial printer Swallowtail Print has expanded its competitive range with a new Konica Minolta AccurioPress C12000 digital printer.

Engineering and manufacturing specialist Amcomri Group has acquired screen and digital printer Bex Design & Print.

There are lots of odd things about the current situation at YM Group, where more than 500 people are out of work after the sudden fall into administration of its three web offset sites.

Established in 1962, LG Davis was the realisation of founder Ron O’Donnell’s dream – to have a company that put the customer first. From humble beginnings in a small stationery shop in Balsall Heath...