Struggling print high-flyer Michael Wu’s seaside printer Longbeach appears to be up and running again only weeks after it was inexplicably shut down.
ProPrint understands Longbeach has switched back on the presses after a mysterious interruption to business operations following mounting problems with Wu’s group of companies.
An outsourced reception team continues to answer the phone, its website is live again and a pre-press operator job for the Seaford based printer was posted online last week.
ProPrint contacted Longbeach, however both Wu and general manager John De Groot have not been available for comment following the printer’s mysterious closure and subsequent reopening.
[Related: Aboughattas brothers eject Wu from Docklands Ability Group]
Wu bought Longbeach from John and his father Josh De Groot in January as part of his strategic boost in wide format operations.
Longbeach converted from an offset house to digital a year ago, and houses an HP Indigo 7800 and Fuji Xerox Color 700 Press. The company also invested in a wide format Agfa Anapurna M2050.
Wu’s business always traded as a separate entity from mega merger Docklands Ability, although it did supply some wide format to the group.
Longbeach’s seesaw operations makes up another brick in Wu’s crumbling print wall which has also seen his departure from the Docklands Ability Merger and the collapse of his digital print business On Demand, which allegedly owes thousands in debt.
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