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17 August 2022
West Star Sells Building and Webs
TORONTO—
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145,000 sq. ft. plant sold in February
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West Star has sold their plant on North Queen and also their two heat set webs. They have rented the property for two years and will be moving to a smaller location. The North Queen plant was 145,000 Sq, Ft. On 6 acres and was reportedly sold for $42 million. The heat set webs were sold to Mi5 in Mississauga . West Star plans to focus on the trade sheet fed business going forward.
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Still one of the largest sheet fed trade printers in Toronto
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The landscape for large trade printers in Toronto has dramatically changed over the last several years. Point-One at one time over $34 million is gone and Trade Secrets assets were sold to MPI Print. With the exception of Prodigy Graphics MPI Print is the only trade printer with a heat set web in Toronto.
2017 and 2018 saw sheet fed trade printers like Annan & Sons, Toronto Trade and Printer Gateway disappear. In 2020 4 Over North America's largest trade printer pulled out of Canada .
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4. Mike says:
12 September 2023 at 8:33 PM
I worked with MPI since former employees from point one Refered me there. Worst experience ever. My job has offset. Even after they insisted that they needed a few more days for it to dry. Which was probably an excuse for being late. I granted them the extra days and when I received my job it had offset all over. I then asked for a reprint and brushed me off like garbage. They said it was my fault because I did not give them more days for drying. I was speechless because I had given them 3 days and they never asked for more days. I was disgusted with my experience and being a trade printer also I felt so confident that MPI is no competition and wished that my worst clients go there to et the same treatment I got to save a few hundred dollars. Trade secret weee crooks and Point one . Matt you specially th me best I have seen I this industry. To bad the closed.
3. Ryan says:
23 August 2022 at 5:47 PM
Sad to see another go. All the best to the Jaffar family.
2. Kevin says:
18 August 2022 at 4:46 PM
I know every former employee of Weststar wish Gulam and his older son all the BEST :)
Back in the day, I made a mistake and worked there for over a year. That experience thought me a lot of how different some ppl could be.
1. Print Broker says:
18 August 2022 at 1:02 AM
I will go to the ends of Canada before I ever make the mistake of using MPI again for any if their services, including WEB printing!
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