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News Release from: Polestar
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 04 October 2005
Polestar Sheffield Hosts Newspaper
Seminar
Thirty-five representatives from UK and Irish newspaper publishers are to visit Polestar Sheffield next week during a meeting of WONA, the Web Offset Newspaper Association.
Thirty-five representatives from UK and Irish newspaper publishers are to visit Polestar Sheffield next week during a meeting of WONA, the Web Offset Newspaper Association Stephen Clark, managing director of Polestar Sheffield, said: "We are delighted to welcome the WONA members to Sheffield, where they will be able to see in operation technology for the production of magazines and supplements
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 24 Mar 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Polestar Sheffield continues to go from strength to strength as the new equipment is bedded in and our employees' skill levels and expertise increases.
We are extremely proud of the company and pleased to have an opportunity to demonstrate its capabilities." Prior to the visit, the seminar for WONA delegates will include a range of speakers from the newspaper industry.
Representing Polestar Sheffield, customer services director David Yendole will give an overview of the company's polybagging operation, which saw the first installation in the UK of four large format CMC jetwrap systems.
They complement the four Ferag Rollstream polybagging lines and together, are capable of operating at claimed speeds of up to 30,000 packs per hour.
Other speakers will include Gerry Davis, head of group logistics at Associated Newspapers, Tony Grabham, managing director of The Northcliffe Press in Plymouth and Marcus Evans, managing director of WRH Marketing UK.
WONA organises several seminars and site visits a year, working in association with the Newspaper Society's technical forum.
The society represents 1,300 regional and local, daily and weekly newspaper titles.
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