Publishing

Kolbus adds Schmedt agency
Kolbus has taken on the agency for German bookbinding machinery specialist Schmedt, and has already added a fresh installation at CPI Group.

YM Group in administration
YM Group has gone into administration, marking an ignominious end for a business that at one time had lofty ambitions to dominate the UK web offset market.

Boost your bottom line with intelligent book imposition
While the book is among the oldest printed products, starting with Gutenberg’s bible more than 500 years ago, in the past two decades, book manufacturing has perhaps gone through one of its biggest...

UPM strike: despair as union rejects proposals
Printers and print buyers are in despair after the Finnish Paperworkers' Union rejected the four UPM strike settlement proposals on the table – apparently due to the impasse at Communication Papers...

Daily Mail revamps Weekend
DMG Media will ‘relaunch’ the Daily Mail’s Weekend magazine this Saturday.

Crunch time at YM Group as sites put up for sale
The future ownership – and structure – of YM Group is up in the air with a fast-track sale process underway and the potential that administrators could be appointed at three of its sites.

More paper surcharges, mill halts production due to energy crisis
Paper makers are implementing a further swathe of surcharges and at least one continental mill has been temporarily shut down after spiralling energy costs made its operation uneconomical.

Walstead signs up to ClimateCalc
Walstead Group is now using the ClimateCalc tool to calculate the carbon footprint of the work it produces.

Pandemic claims another high-end print firm
London-based, award-winning Boss Print has become the latest victim of the pandemic and closed its doors following an unsustainable drop in work.

Wallace goes inside the factory at Woodmansterne
Woodmansterne had a starring role in a special Inside the Christmas Factory programme broadcast this week.