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News Release from: Mosca Direct | Subject: RO-TAI-5 strapping machines
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 25 October 2007
High Speed Strapping Matches Pressroom
Output
Reliable high-speed strapping systems that could match the output of its pressroom prompted Sheffield Web to source specialist strapping from Mosca Direct.
Mosca Direct has installed eight of its RO-TAI-5 strapping machines Said to be developed for the newspaper industry, the RO-TAI-5 is claimed to be capable of speeds of up to 36 bundles per minute
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 26 Jan 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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It incorporates Mosca's airless, all-electric technology, which eliminates the need for compressed air and its related maintenance requirements.
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Part of Johnston Press, Sheffield Web has a 10-acre site that became operational in the summer of 2006.
The operation has the latest MAN Roland presses for printing titles from Johnston's newspaper ange and titles from other publishers, such as Metro and the Times Educational Supplement.
Mosca Direct said that Sheffield Web needed reliable, high-speed strapping equipment that could match the output of the pressroom and the company chose Mosca because of the favourable experience of that equipment at other sites within the Johnston group.
Nick Boxall, Sheffield Web's managing director, commented: "Our colleagues confirmed that Mosca manufactures very consistent and efficient machines, so we were happy to go with them.
We have been using the Mosca RO-TAI-5s for over a year now and the machines perform extremely well.
They do everything we could have wanted from them.".
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