Part of the OPUS Print Group, Ligare was founded on September 17, 1979, as a small hand-binding company based in the Sydney suburb of Surry Hills, with the owners intending to keep it as a small business which catered to New South Wales Government printers. It wasn’t until 1990 that the company expanded into production printing.

“We decided, on a return trip from Melbourne, that we might as well become printers ourselves,” said co-founder Richard Celarc.

The company purchased its first offset press – a Roland perfector – shortly after, and moved to the company’s current 8000sqm headquarters in Riverwood in 1993. The site now houses three mono web presses, four sheet-fed presses, two soft-cover binding lines, one case binding line, one saddle-stitch binding line, and a full service digital print facility, as well as mailing and warehousing services for key clients.

Now boasting a 100-strong workforce, Ligare is currently undergoing Competitive Manufacturing Certificate III and IV, as well as recently becoming a member of the Sustainability Advantage Program run by the New South Wales Department of Environment and Climate Change.

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