Receivership & administration

Central Colour has closed its doors, resulting in the loss of 19 jobs, and will be placed into liquidation.

Colour Five has formally been placed in liquidation after being hit by rising costs and a slump in demand for its specialised UV litho printing.

Calderprint’s kit portfolio has been put up for auction after the company shut down and went into administration last month.

Gemini Print Group has acquired Foundry Press out of administration in a pre-pack deal.

Insolvent German paper mill Scheufelen is being wound up, according to German media reports.

Colour Five is understood to be entering a creditors' voluntary liquidation, while the current trading status of the specialist print business is unclear.

Union Unite has welcomed news that Arjowiggins’ Stoneywood paper mill near Aberdeen is in discussions with an MBO team to deliver a successful transaction of the site over the coming weeks.

Numerous assets belonging to recently closed Howard Hunt (City) are going under the hammer at auction, with others being sold by private treaty.

An MBO team has now emerged as the potential future owner of Arjowiggins Fine Papers' Stoneywood and Chartham mills after lengthy negotiations with a preferred bidder failed to come to fruition.

Calderprint has been formally placed into administration after it closed its doors last month.