The newly merged PMP is making the Offset Alpine plant in Lidcombe its national sheetfed commercial printing centre, with web print and associated bindery activities moving out.

Some 120 staff will lose their jobs as a result of the strategic rationalisaiton, the job losses coming soon after the 100 that went with the closure of Hannan Print in Noble Park, Victoria, and the 76 that went with the end of its Wacol facility in Queensland.

The web presses and bindery equipment at Offset Alpine will either be redeployed around the group or sold off. There are no plans to invest in any additional sheetfed printing capacity.

The sheetfed offset PMP Geebung site in Queensland will continue to operate, this facility of focused on package print.

The rationalisation into Offset Alpine and its strategic reorientation into the group’s national sheetfed print centre comes as  a result of the March 1 merger between PMP and IPMG.

The merger with IPMG took PMP back into sheetfed printing for the first time in more than a decade, since it swapped out its sheetfed operations to Penfold Buscobe, which went on to become the biggest sheetfed printer in the country before it was bought by the ill-fated Geon venture in 2007.

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