New printing facility for INM as strike looms

INDEPENDENT News and Media (INM) is planning to open a newspaper printing facility in Newry next year.

The multi-million euro facility — aimed at meeting increasing capacity demands, particularly at its existing Belfast-based printing house — is expected to be operational during the first half of 2007.

According to a spokesperson for the group: “The idea is that this will surpass anything — in terms of printing capability and capacity — already in existence in the Irish market.