Publishing

William Gibbons joint managing director Mark Gibbons has praised the “superb” response of firefighters and the firm’s employees after a fire destroyed one of the company’s web presses.

Polestar Colchester has become the latest casualty of the group’s consolidation of its web offset facilities.

Huddersfield-based private press The Fleece Press scooped the Best British Book award at last week's BPIF British Book Design and Production Awards 2014.

Polestar Petty will cease printing on 20 December, according to local reports.

Commercial and trade printer Normanton Advertiser has invested in a Polar 56 ECO from Heidelberg to replace an older model.

Book manufacturer TJ International has branched out into short-run digital colour production for the first time after installing a Canon Océ ColorStream 3900 inkjet printer.

One of the two newsprint machines at UPM Shotton will be permanently shut down as part of a plan to cut a further 800,000 tonnes of European publication paper capacity.

Printing revenue at Trinity Mirror has fallen 6% in the 17 weeks to 26 October, according to the publisher's latest interim management statement, compared with a 3% increase in the first six months of...

KBA has posted significant increases in sales, operating profit and pre-tax earnings in its results for the nine months to 30 September 2014.

The first fruits of the partnership between Bielomatik and Matti Technology, a fully integrated 300m/min high-speed book and publications production line, is to make its first public outing at an open...