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News Release from: Goss International | Subject: Mainstream towers, Mainstream press
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 25 July 2006
Four New Towers For Press At French News
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Imprimeries IPS, the commercial and newspaper printer, based near Avignon in Southern France has ordered additional four-high Goss Mainstream towers.
Imprimeries IPS, the commercial and newspaper printer, based near Avignon in Southern France has ordered additional four-high Goss Mainstream towers for presses at its ISO 9001/2000 certified Chateaurenard and Fouilloy facilities The latest order have come less than a year after an order for its third 4x1 gapless Mainstream press
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 8 Jul 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Adding a fifth four-high tower to the existing Mainstream presses at each facility will increase the capacity of each machine said Goss.
The press at Fouilloy will be capable of printing 80 full colour tabloid pages, or a maximum of 96 pages with 64 in full colour.
The press at Chateaurenard will be capable of producing 80 pages total all in full colour.
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Francis Cartoux, president and chief executive officer of Imprimeries IPS commented: "Our current Mainstream presses have fulfilled our requirements exactly and have enabled us to increase production and improve our flexibility.
These new towers will improve production for us further and enable us to continue to grow in to the future." Imprimeries IPS has printed close to one billion newspapers in total since 2002 on the two existing Mainstream presses, including multiple titles in tabloid and broadsheet formats in run lengths as low as 10,000 copies.
Technology allowing fast change-overs and print quality with gapless blankets were critical factors in the decisions to purchase the Mainstream presses and towers, added Goss.
"We have never seen a newspaper press with the ability to produce such high quality," said Jacques Fachinetti, site manager at Reyrieux.
Addition of the new Mainstream tower at the Chateaurenard facility will take place at the same time as the new four-tower Mainstream press, ordered in September 2005, is installed.
Both projects are expected to be completed by February 2007.
The new tower at Fouilloy will be installed over this summer.
Cartoux continued: "We have chosen to install the new towers on the left hand side of each press so that there is the enough space on the right for future expansion with a further tower and folder should we require it.
The installation at Fouilloy is complex but we are confident in Goss's project management abilities that everything will run smoothly." The installation will involve the removal and replacement of a roof section as well as the craning in of the new tower in one day.
The Mainstream press at Fouilloy has produced half a billion printed copies since its installation in 2002, which is 2.5 million copies per week from one single folder.
Jean Segura, Goss director of sales, commented: "IPS has seen remarkable growth and vision and the Mainstream tower additions ordered here will help to continue that growth.
The company's existing presses have demonstrated their ability to consistently deliver extremely high quality products on a variety of print runs and we hope to continue to help them develop into the future." Imprimeries IPS added two Goss M-600 heatset presses in 2005 for commercial printing and also operates Goss Community and Universal presses.
The company is a fully owned subsidiary of SPIR Communication group, one of the pioneers and most prominent publishers of free weekly newspapers in France.
IPS has five print sites in France producing 184 freesheet editions and a total of 17.5 million copies weekly.
The company y also produces more than 110 regional news publications, over six million advertising pieces and close to one million specialist periodicals.
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