Web offset

Sterling Solutions is first in UK with H-UV web press

Sterling Solutions has installed a Komori web offset press that is unique to the UK market.

Gibbons in frame for Ancient House web

One of the two web offset presses at shuttered Ancient House Press appears likely to find a new home in the West Midlands.

Quad/Graphics European print ops now under new ownership

Quad/Graphics has completed the $42m (£33m) sale of its European printing operations, including its huge web offset and sheetfed plant in Poland.

Walstead to trim continental web capacity

Walstead Group has announced plans to close one of its continental web offset factories.

The Eurohueco site near Barcelona. Image: Google Maps

Walstead begins consultations at Spanish gravure site

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.

Web offset expert Alan White passes away

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.

PCP boosts efficiency with new kit

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 looks to 'wider graphic industries' for future M&A

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 sells European print wing

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...

York Media celebrates inaugural print job

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.