28.01.12 - A new printing centre is being built in Tampere. And postpress processing is playing a key part. With a Ferag production installation that’s currently unbeaten when it comes to performance and versatility, Alma Manu Oy wishes to consolidate the position of the newspaper and create the basis for growth in new markets.

Eventually, the three well-known titles Aamulehti, Kauppalehti, and a large part of the afternoon newspaper Iltalehti will be produced on the three 45,000-generation MSD inserting lines with their MultiDisc and RollStream periphery, along with several of the publishing group’s regional and local newspapers. These newspapers will bring daily circulations to a total of some 500,000 copies.

A lot of space has also been allocated to new print products in addition to newspapers. One of the three MSD inserting lines is hooked up to a RollStream precollecting system with ten JetFeeder hopper stations that can easily be expanded to 20 hoppers – equipment that gives Alma Manu Oy the technological basis to prepare advertising packages for direct-mail operations. The optimum production sequence will be assured using the Navigator control. Conversely,  the StreamStitch stitching component, an SNT-50 trimming drum and a StreamFold quarterfold line come with options for increasing order volumes. In so doing, Aanu Oy mainly wishes to stimulate business in semi-commercial and insert production.