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News Release from: MAN Roland GB | Subject: Regioman Web Presses
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 05 May 2004
MAN Roland's Regioman Press Sales Stay
Strong
MAN Roland is reporting that demand for its Regioman presses continues to be brisk.
MAN ROLAND is reporting that demand for its Regioman presses continues to be brisk In December 2003 the Italian financial paper Il Sole 24 ORE opted for three systems of the eight-page newspaper press from MAN Roland
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 16 Feb 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Since the double-width eight-page Regioman's market launch at Drupa 2000, 31 systems with a total of over 1,000 printing couples have been sold to customers in the USA, Mexico, France, Portugal, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and India.
Seventeen systems are already in production.
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Ernst-Ulrich Dill is managing director of Union Druckerei Weimar GmbH in Nohra near Weimar, Germany, and the first Regioman user worldwide.
His company has been producing with the press for more than three years.
He said: "We have come to appreciate its efficiency, flexibility and versatility.
We can meet any colour and placement wish a customer may have, and we offer our readers top quality and up-to-the-latest reporting." For the French printing company Groupe Amaury, MAN Roland installed six Regioman press lines at five production sites in record time with the systems commissioned within nine months, said MAN Roland.
Groupe Amaury is a leading media group that also organises sport events like the Tour de France and the Rallye Paris Dakar.
The group decided in favour of Regioman in order to be able to successfully implement decentralisation of its two leading newspapers, L'Equipe and Aujourd'hui (the national edition of Le Parisien).
Six identical Regiomans have been installed in five different plants located just north of Paris and in Lyon, Marseille, Nantes and Toulouse.
Less than a year passed from the time the first two systems were commissioned at Mitry Mory near Paris in January 2003 until the last plant started up in Toulouse.
Each of those presses is equipped with four eight-couple towers, five reel splicers and a folder that means that L'Equipe and Aujourd'hui can be printed four-colour throughout in most cases.
The decentralised plant locations follow the strategy of the Amaury Groupe to reorganise its production so as to enable its papers to report as close to the times of happening as possible.
That is of particular importance for the sports paper L'Equipe.
The press's increased capacities in four-colour printing and its high printing quality moreover make it possible for the Amoury Groupe to meet their advertising customers' every wish for colour and ad placement, commented MAN Roland.
Users in the United States alone account for 15 of the Regiomans sold so far, making the Regioman one of MAN Roland's most popular newspaper printing systems in the USA.
They represent 484 printing couples and 75 reel splicers installed by the Honolulu Advertiser in Honolulu, to the Knoxville News Sentinel in Knoxville, to Valley Publishing in Michigan or to the Daily Herald in Arlington Heights.
Nine of the US presses are now in production.
MAN Roland early last September set up a training centre in Arlington Heights, devoted to practical Regioman training.
MAN Roland said that the Regioman produces up to 75,000 copies per hour.
Its double-width eight-page system prints newspapers in broadsheet and tabloid formats and is particularly suitable for newspapers with regional editions.
Georg Riescher, management spokesman of MAN Roland's Plamag works in Plauen (Germany), explained why it is so successful: "Its flexible concept allows the production of newspaper sections in even or uneven numbers.
The individual sections may differ in page counts that can be changed in two-page increments.
This flexibility in page count is one of its great advantages.
Its 4/1 concept halves the plate requirement and, thus, the plate costs.
This saving, of course, also goes for the plate making operation as a whole.".
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