Courier Opts to Shutter Book Plant

Courier Chairman and CEO James Conway said that, after due deliberation, it was decided that closing Stoughton was the only available solution to bring one-color capacity in line with the economy.

The Stoughton plant currently employs 110 people. It is the smallest and least versatile of Courier's six manufacturing facilities, and has seen its volume decline in recent years as customers have increasingly turned to four-color production, shorter print runs and more efficient short-run alternatives such as digital printing, in which the company has invested heavily in the last year.