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News Release from: Timsons | Subject: T48A Book Press
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 13 April 2004
Tailor-Made Timsons Book Press Boosts
Throughput
Timsons' 100 years of experience in printing machinery design has been combined with William Clowes' 200 years of printing expertise to create a new force in consumer book production.
Timsons' 100 years of experience in printing machinery design has been combined with William Clowes' 200 years of printing expertise to create a new force in consumer book production When the Clowes factory at Beccles in East Anglia (UK) comes on stream in 2004, the first extended width Timson T48A book press in the country will go into production
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 12 Apr 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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It has been specially designed by Timsons to meet Clowes' requirements.
With a top speed of 450 metres per minute, this custom-built press is capable of generating over two million printed pages per hour, said Timsons.
Its extra width will enable production of 96 pages per revolution in Royal format.
The semi-automatic plate changing system will keep make-ready time to an absolute minimum, maximising the time available for profitable production.
The T48A will provide an increased throughput for the bindery of up to 100,000 extra books per day.
The new press will add significant capacity to the Clowes print room, which houses two Solna two-unit and one four-unit webs.
"It has been a long and hard road to reach the position at which we need this production capability.
We completed the sale of our former Beccles site to and will complete relocation to our new factory on the edge of town in August.
This new investment, coupled with new binding machinery, will give us the capacity to produce over a million books per week," said Clowes managing director Ian Foyster.
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