Wace Beefs Up Long Perfecting and Folding Power in Swindon |
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Wace Swindon, the perfecting arm of The Print Factory, has specified three new buckle folders and it will retrofit a CutStar onto the ten-colour Speedmaster SM 102 it installed in July, just ahead of the 12-colour which is currently being commissioned there.
"We want a £20 million perfecting plant in Swindon," says group operations director Gary Kiernan. "We have doubled sales between February and now, in part the result of transferring work from McCorquodale Confidential Print there. On the basis of our August figures we are up to an annual turnover of £13 million so we want to climb a further 60 percent over the next six to 12 months with two ten-colours and the 12-colour SM 102s in place."
The larger Print Factory group (which also includes a direct mail, web and straight printing Northampton operation) now has a manufacturing capacity of £60 million, a mind-boggling growth from the £12 million turnover it had three years ago.
The three new folders are direct replacements, selected after a review of "the usual suspects". "In the past I though folder technology was behind but now its much more like the presses. The three new Stahlfolder TH 82 will output three times the work of the three older models they replace."
The folders will arrive in the autumn, as will CutStar the reel to sheet device. This was specified for the press but the company needed such a speedy delivery on the ten-colour that the retrofit was agreed. CutStar enables the company to buy paper in reels and to minimise cut off waste.
August 2005
For further information please contact:
Diana Thompson, Plus Point PR Ltd, on 010494 817178
or
Irene Duffy, Heidelberg UK, on 020 8490 3500
or
Gary Kiernan, The Print Factory, on 01604 790234
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