Web offset

The future for Walstead Group’s only gravure printing facility is in question with the firm consulting over potential “large scale” redundancies at the operation.

Alan White, who held a number of senior roles at well-known printers during the heyday of web offset and direct mail, has died aged 82.

Precision Colour Printing is making a six-figure investment in technology to improve efficiencies and is also adapting its shift patterns for greater flexibility – while its new owners are looking to...

Walstead Group is on the hunt for buys in other sectors after reporting decline in its core markets of web offset and gravure and a loss for last year.

Quad/Graphics is exiting European print production with a deal to sell its continental operations to a private equity group that has ambitions to become the regional leader in print and integrated...

Start-up York Media has printed the first commercial work on its huge new web press – and is already planning to add a 16pp cover web and perfect binding to its offering.

Walstead Group has appointed a new CFO who arrives with a long track record at a variety of media businesses.

Walstead has rejigged its management setup on the continent to reflect the upcoming departure of EU CEO José Maria Camacho.

Walstead’s recently appointed CEO for its EU operations has decided to leave the business, in a surprise move that comes just two months after he took up the new role.

The future for Walstead York remains unclear with the factory still out of action and no word from Walstead Group on its plans for the site.