Newspaper's In-Line Stitching Adds Quality, Value

In-line stitching for the Newbury Weekly News (UK) will add heightened quality and value for the newspaper's sections.

Added to the Newbury Weekly News's Goss Universal 70 press, the Tolerans Speedliner system, ordered from Tolerans' UK distributor WRH Marketing UK, is to be installed later this month.

The Goss Universal 70 press at Newbury is fitted with a 2:3:3 folder unit.

It will be linked to the new Speedliner, which is a shaftless in-line stitcher that can operate at claimed speeds of up to 105,000 copies per hour (cph) with an option for running at 130,000cph).

It has a capacity to stitch eight-144 pages of 40gsm stock, with an option for 192 pages.

The cut-off range is between 410mm - 700mm, whilst anything between two to six staples can be applied per product, said WRH Marketing.

Newbury Weekly News managing director, Adrian Martin, commented: "Tolerans has become the standard in the UK for in-line stitching of newspaper sections and we are confident that the Speedliner will be installed without any disruption to production and that it will perform reliably.

The Speedliner is extremely well engineered and will operate at the full press speed of our Goss Universal.

And he explained: "Like most regional newspapers today we have been examining opportunities to add value to our print services.

Providing in-line stitching is an obvious route because it creates a higher quality product that remains intact during its lifespan, whilst having additional sections within the paper offers benefits to readers and advertisers.

The Newbury Weekly News, which has a circulation of 25,000 copies, is one of several publications produced by Newbury Weekly News Printers, an independently-owned family business now in its sixth generation.

The company has been providing contract printing services for the last 30 years and now handles a range of publications.

Martin added: "A lot of our contract print customers are independent publishing businesses similar to ourselves and we expect that the new Tolerans in-line stitching facility will be an attractive option for the sort of titles they produce.

Our Goss Universal lets us print up to 96 pages in full colour and our contract printing side of the business currently handles runs from 5,000 to 100,000 on this press.

Martin continued: "I've dealt with WRH Marketing UK in the past whilst working at other newspaper plants and have always found the company to be extremely helpful and professional.

I'm looking forward to working with WRH again on this new project here at Newbury.

The Newbury Weekly News was formed in 1867 and it has won awards for its quality.

In 2005 it won the Newspaper Society's Weekly Newspaper of the Year award and this year its Newburytoday website won the overall category in the society's category for best website in the regional press.

For the past two years the group has been voted best coldest printer for single width printers in the Goss user group annual awards.

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