Magazines

Magazine and commercial printer The Color Company (Cheltenham) has invested around £300,000 in a Heidelberg Stahlfolder BH 56 and a Muller Martini stitching line.

Kevin Dunstall’s newest venture involves a publishing company that prints tens of thousands of magazines a month.

A French printing industry expert has told PrintWeek that the country’s security services have asked for the identity of the printer of this week’s Charlie Hebdo “survivors’ issue” be kept under wraps...

French authorities appear to have ended the siege and freed the hostage at French printco Création Tendance Découverte (CTD), where terrorist suspects accused of the shooting at French satirical...

Commercial printer Williams Press (Berks) has fallen into administration, resulting in the loss of 62 jobs.

Polestar chief executive Barry Hibbert has hailed print as being “on the up” after the production of this year’s Christmas TV listings guides.

Polestar’s new 96pp web presses have resulted in an investment dilemma for UPM Caledonian Paper.

William Gibbons joint managing director Mark Gibbons has praised the “superb” response of firefighters and the firm’s employees after a fire destroyed one of the company’s web presses.

Polestar Colchester has become the latest casualty of the group’s consolidation of its web offset facilities.

Polestar Petty will cease printing on 20 December, according to local reports.

The first fruits of the partnership between Bielomatik and Matti Technology, a fully integrated 300m/min high-speed book and publications production line, is to make its first public outing at an open...

An “unprecedented” squeeze on UK web offset capacity could last until Christmas, even though Polestar has now begun printing live jobs on its first 96pp web press.