Books

UK Bookbinders has set up a new digital division with investment in a Horizon BQ-470 PUR perfect binder and a Horizon HT-30 three-side trimmer.

St Ives has sold the Cornish factory occupied by Wyndeham Roche to a property company for £4.2m, while the group’s share price has descended to a new all-time low.

An industry valuations veteran has issued a heartfelt plea for the workforce at Wheatons Exeter to be given another chance under new ownership.

Uncertainty over a number of major contracts at St Ives could put a crimp in the group's plans to sell off its print operations.

Wheatons Exeter, the former Polestar book printing facility, has fallen into administration just under a year after it was bought in an MBO following the collapse of Polestar.

Oxfordshire commercial printer KMS Litho has added a Fastbind perfect binder and casemaker to its factory in order to boost its in-house finishing capability and offer outsourced bindery to local...

US-based Interquest has announced details of its seventh annual London Digital Book Printing Forum.

2016 was a record-breaking year for the UK publishing industry, according to the latest figures from the Publishers Association.

Bell & Bain is to dramatically increase bindery throughput with a £1m-plus investment in a bespoke Muller Martini solution that will be a world first.

West London-based Boss Print has launched a new litho colour process that offers photographic, continuous tone-like image quality based on an expanded colour gamut with high definition screening.

The story of a man who printed escape maps during the Second World War after using shower tiles to construct a lithographic press is to be published in book form.

St Ives has effectively hoisted a ‘for sale’ sign over its £220m-plus turnover print operations, with the group’s management pledging to take “decisive action” to restore its fortunes.