Tough Times for Oregon Printers

PORTLAND, OR—Leading Media Print Group, created by the 2006 merger of Times Litho and Northwest Web, has gone under. The Times Litho plant, in Forest Grove, OR, dismissed 70 employees in November, according to the Portland Tribune.

The Oregonian reported that the Northwest Web branch in Eugene suspended operations four weeks earlier, leaving 30 people out of work. Ken Mitchell, vice president of operations, told the Tribune that the printer had ample work, but fell victim to the credit crisis.