Valhaven, the repro house based in Isleworth, Middlesex, went into liquidation on 31 October.


Liquidator Harris Lipman is in negotiation to sell off some parts of the company. No reasons were disclosed as to why the business failed.


The firm had 18 employees and, according to Harris Lipman, most of them have found other work.


A creditors' meeting will take place on 14 November at Harris Lipman's Reading office.


As PrintWeek went to press, no-one from Valhaven was available for comment.


Valhaven has handled repro for Gardens Illustrated and the Innovations, catalogue, and in August it did the repro for John Brown Publishing's new launch, Bare.


Valhaven also produced litho plates and offered seven-colour hi-fi repro-duction/printing, which it moved into in 1997
using Scitex's Resolut PS software.


Story by Jeremy Allen