Web offset

Flint Group has launched two new offset inks, four LED and low-energy curing inks and two food-grade UV curing inks for food packaging printing on board and synthetics.

Publishing giant Time Inc has agreed a new sole supplier deal for its UK magazines with Wyndeham Group.

Wyndeham Group owner Walstead has rescued Polestar’s Bicester operation with a deal to buy the equipment at the site and re-employ more than 300 staff.

CTP manufacturer Cron (5-B24) has unveiled six new products at Drupa, which it said will take it into broader fields of offset press optimisation, plate production and flexo packaging.

Goss International has announced a strategic partnership with Netherlands-based web offset and service specialists DG Press Services.

Workers at Polestar Chantry have agreed to new terms and conditions that could pave the way for new ownership and save more than 150 jobs at the site – and the potential purchaser is also interested...

Walstead has secured £33m of private equity backing for its acquisition of Leykam Let’s Print.

Workers at Polestar’s Sheffield web offset site have been told the facility will cease operation with immediate effect. Sheffield’s gravure operation is also being wound down, and will stop printing...

A major publishing client of Polestar Sheffield has been told by administrators that the plant will continue printing this weekend and next.

Agfa Graphics is introducing a series of “affordable” engines that focus on CTP technology for newspaper web-offset printing.

CirclePrinters has filled the sales void caused by the death of Angus Jurkschat by recruiting a senior salesperson from Polestar.

Polestar chief executive Barry Hibbert is no longer with the business.