Cambridge Newspapers Expands With KBA Performance

Cambridge Newspapers is planning to expand its newspaper contract printing with a pressroom investment in back to back colour facilities.

Cambridge Newspapers is planning to expand its newspaper contract printing with a pressroom investment in back to back colour facilities.

The addition of two new four-high towers to the company's KBA Albert A510X press, is now providing 64pp of continuous colour in collect mode at a regular 50,000 copies per hour.

The project, which began with delivery of the units at the end of March 2003 and first commercial copies off in August, was completed on time, well within the £4.5m budget and without any addition to pressroom production staff.

The company is running at just over 60% of its ultimate capacity and Cambridge Newspapers said it is determined to fill the balance during 2004.

The extended press has enabled the company to maintain its contract with Express Newspapers for the printing of The Daily Star and the Cambridge Evening News Property supplement has been brought back in house, whilst the company could now develop and improve the same paper's Drive supplement.

Investment has continued with the addition of automatic colour register and automatic blanket washing.

Press production manager Alan Mee said: "This is part of an continuing programme of investment that will both improve the quality and service we provide our readers and advertisers, as well as to our contract print customers.

It has also included investment in a sheetfed press and in stitching and trimming lines that also improve our versatility as a contract printer." KBA provided training for Cambridge Newspapers' people in Germany and Newsquest in Glasgow also hosted further training sessions.

KBA UK maintains a permanent engineering presence on site at Cambridge Newspapers to provide maintenance support.

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