More Newspapers Press Forwards With Expansion

KBA has booked orders for two Colora press towers to extend an Express at Lapin Kansa in Rovaniemi, Finland and a Colora at the Meath Chronicle in Navan, Ireland.

KBA has booked orders for two Colora press towers to extend an Express at Lapin Kansa in Rovaniemi, Finland and a Colora at the Meath Chronicle in Navan, Ireland.

German printer Walsrode on the Luneburg Heath is adding an H-unit to the second tower on its KBA Journal to expand its maximum capacity to 64 4/4 pages tabloid.

Specifications for all three extensions include automation and control upgrades.

In the Arctic Circle, Lapin Kansa, part of Finnish media group Alma Media, is adding a four-high tower and quarterfold in mid-2005 to support the conversion of its title daily (circulation 35,000 copies) and Pohjolan Sanomat (22,500) from broadsheet to 64 full-colour pages tabloid.

The press line will then comprise three reel stands, 20 printing couples and a KF 80 folder.

The existing units have vertical and horizontal drive shafts, but the new Colora tower and quarterfold will feature shaftless drives.

The Meath Chronicle, whose same-name title circulates in the north-east region of the Irish republic along with its other titles, Provincial Farmer and Modern Woman, prints in excess of one million copies per week between these and its other print contracts, which include national dailies, as well as regional titles.

The four-high press delivered in 2001 is being expanded in mid-2005 to three full towers, a half-H for mono printing, four Pastostar RC reel stands with a KBA Patras M reel-handling system, one KF 3 jaw folder and two EAE consoles.

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