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News Release from: Goss International | Subject: Flexible Printing System (FPS)
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 15 February 2008
Flexible Printing System Runs At
90,000cph
Mainland Europe's first Goss Flexible Printing System (FPS) is currently being installed at F D Hoekstra Boom in Emmeloord (The Netherlands), which is expected to produce 90,000 copies-per-hour.
Goss said that the FPS press was chosen to provide a future-proofed system that is being housed in a new low-height building, purposely designed to provide maximum flexibility and to allow for changing requirements in the future Hoekstra Boom is the first Goss FPS press customer to specify provision for changeable cut-off on the units and the folder at the time of the order
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 18 May 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Future addition of a second set of cylinders for printing units and folder will allow the publisher the flexibility to accommodate a wider variety of work, added the company.
When fully installed, the Goss FPS press will comprise two 4 x 2 four-high towers with 58cm cut-off and 1,680mm web width, two Goss Contiweb FD pasters and a 2:5:5 modular jaw folder equipped with stitcher, skip slitter and quarterfold capabilities.
The press has also been specified with a fully integrated Goss press control system, including pre-setting capabilities, predictive maintenance and self-learning technologies.
Hans Emmink, technical director at Hoekstra Boom, commented: "We're truly excited to be at this stage of the project.
Watching the press take shape, we can't wait to operate it." He added: "The FPS press fits our company philosophy perfectly, as well as our entrepreneurship and our quality standards.
Hoekstra Boom is driven to optimise processes and capabilities to ensure we can always maintain our high standards, no matter what the future may throw at us.
For us, having such production flexibility within clearly defined, sustainable parameters of quality and consistency is the ultimate goal.".
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