Harelbeke sees its last printing company disappear: “In 2009…

The machines in the Vandeputte printing plant in Harelbeke are not running for the first time in 75 years. Printer Yvan Vandeputte stops printing. The sector has changed enormously, he says: “At one point we were faced with the fact that the funeral directors did the funeral letters themselves. Then there was the rise of the internet, which caused private individuals to look for communion cards on the internet. They think it is cheaper, but sometimes it is cheaper with us.”