Print buying

One of the two newsprint machines at UPM Shotton will be permanently shut down as part of a plan to cut a further 800,000 tonnes of European publication paper capacity.

Half-year sales are down again at Grafenia, but margins are up and the firm’s new Marqetspace offering is on course to be a £1m business by the year-end.

The first purchaser of Ricoh’s new Pro VC60000 colour inkjet web has said the press has changed his mind over the potential shift from offset to inkjet.

Sheetfed magazine printer Pensord is to launch a £350,000 digital print division to support its publishing clients with ultra short-run and versioned titles, personalised covers, subscription drives...

Barwell Finishers has added B1-format foiling and die-cutting to its existing range of post-press services.

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.

Brilliant Media has added automated cutting to its facilities after buying an Esko Kongsberg cutting table at Duplo’s London Calling event this week.

Prinovis UK was among the winners at the recent European Rotogravure Association (ERA) awards.

Grafenia’s new initiatives, including cross-media studio Nettl, are “making progress” according to an update from the PLC.

Marketing services is now a near-£100m business for St Ives, while like-for-like print sales have nudged up after the group’s exit from commodity print markets.

Wyndeham Group has begun a 45-day consultation at its loss-making Heron site that could mean the end of print production at the factory.

Walstead Investments has released its first results since the loss of the IPC Media contract, and has revealed that it has secured new work from e-tailers to help mitigate the lost volume.