Web offset

Walstead Group is on the hunt for buys in other sectors after reporting decline in its core markets of web offset and gravure and a loss for last year.

Quad/Graphics is exiting European print production with a deal to sell its continental operations to a private equity group that has ambitions to become the regional leader in print and integrated...

Start-up York Media has printed the first commercial work on its huge new web press – and is already planning to add a 16pp cover web and perfect binding to its offering.

The future for Walstead York remains unclear with the factory still out of action and no word from Walstead Group on its plans for the site.

Walstead Group is streamlining its continental management structure under a single CEO.

York Media boss Linda Boyes has dispensed with the services of Mike Newbould Junior at her new web offset start-up venture.

There are lots of odd things about the current situation at YM Group, where more than 500 people are out of work after the sudden fall into administration of its three web offset sites.

Koenig & Bauer has said that hitting its year-end targets will be "significantly more challenging" as it holds firm on prices in face of continuing competitor pressure, with order intake slipping and...

Walstead Group has agreed a new facility with Close Brothers Asset Finance as part of a simplification of financing across the business.

The death of a paper reel clamp truck driver at Walstead Bicester has been ruled an accident.

An inquest is underway into the death of Wayne Riggall, who died last year in an incident involving a clamp truck at Walstead Bicester.

Print “still has an important role to play” in the promotion of the Edinburgh Fringe according to the festival’s Fringe Society, despite its ongoing drive to reduce the volume of printed material...