Web offset

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.

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.

Printing and post-press kit from YM’s Pindar and York Mailing sites is being offered for sale by private treaty.

It’s a crucial week for future web offset capacity in the UK as the deadline looms for bids on YM Group’s former web offset sites and assets.

The fallout from the abrupt closure of YM Group’s three web offset sites continues, with some weekly titles running late and all eyes on the Daily Mail’s first in-house production of its Weekend...

DMG Media has started printing Weekend in-house after the collapse of YM Group’s web division forced the media group to pull forward its plans to produce the title on its own presses.

YM Group backer Pricoa is yet to comment on the collapse of the group's three web offset sites, which were placed into administration yesterday.

YM Group’s plans to be a dominant player in UK web offset have collapsed into chaos, with FRP Advisory appointed as the administrator of the group's three web division businesses, and staff left...

Nervous workers at YM’s three up-for-sale web plants are awaiting clarity from the group’s bosses about the future for the sites, after Walstead apparently withdrew its interest in a possible rescue...