Graphics Plus into administration

Sydney design and UV printing company, Graphics Plus, has gone into voluntary administration, with the future of the business and its 20 staff now in the balance. Long time owner Phillip Delaney is unavailable for comment. Delaney has been the managing director of Graphics Plus for 26 years, he placed the business into voluntary administration on Monday. The lease for the company’s building in Silverwater, NSW, was up, the landlord wanted a five year lease extension, with Delaney, who is in his 60s, thought to have baulked at signing.

Phillip Delaney

Phillip Delaney

Graphic Plus was one of the companies that took a major hit from the Focus collapse a year ago, losing the $61,500 it was owed. The company won its reputation for pioneering lithographic printing onto plastic more than 30 years ago, claiming research and development to be the ‘primary driving force’ of the company’s ‘evolution’. Graphic Plus was not a mainstream printer, its services included UV printing and printing on plastics, as well as packaging, POS, commercial print, retail graphics, digital printing, digital finishing, design and prototyping with environmentally friendly solutions. Sources close to the business say, he wanted to offload the business to someone else but failed to find a buyer, and didn’t want the cost of moving all the equipment to a new place. The company’s move into voluntary administration comes as bad news for the business’s some 20 staff members, half of whom were told to stay home until ‘further notice’, while the other half are completing ‘final bits of jobs’. The adminstrators are Darrin Paine & Thomas Dawson of Insol Group.

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