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The World Printers Forum (WPF) is an organisation of newspaper printers and suppliers within WAN-IFRA. Its objective is to encourage innovation and productivity as well as product development that can be instrumental for publishers to exploit future oriented news media products. It promotes the power of print and the sustainability of print production.

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  • Mediaprint Zeitungs- und Zeitschriftenverlag in Vienna Automates Palletizing Process
    2016-10-04 12:52
    30.09.2016 – Every day, up to 60 000 bundles of newspapers and magazines are leaving the Mediaprint printing house in Vienna. Until now, the palletizing of bundles has been handled manually. To make this process more efficient and productive, the Austrian printing house has decided to automate the palletizing process and ordered a SCP – Schur Compact Palletizer. Read more ...
  • UV in newspaper printing, presentation at World Printers Forum Conference 2016
    2016-09-30 15:39
    At the World Printers Forum Conference 2016, which was organised in conjunction with WAN-IFRA India Conference 2016 in Kolkata, India, Ms. Nandini Choudhury, from DIC India Limited, presented comprehensively the pros and cons of UV ink in newspaper production. Read more ...
  • Star Tribune delighted with QIPC collaboration
    2016-09-30 11:36
    Oosterhout, 30 September 2016 – It was a year ago that an automation system supplied by Q.I. Press Controls (QIPC) was installed for the very first time at the Star Tribune printing plant. The mRC-3D for register control is now functioning to the complete satisfaction of the Star Tribune based in Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA). “We're extremely happy with the improvements in quality and reductions in waste.” Read more ...
  • What will the future of newspaper printing hold?
    2016-09-29 13:25
    September 29, 2016 – manroland web systems awaits you at the WPE 2016 in Vienna from 10th-12th October 2016, stand C550. The web offset printing market leader will of course have its customised solutions, business models and strategies for modern newspaper production, whether it be offset or digital, at hand. manroland web systems will present different business models, which have been newly developed together with customers as well as the most modern and efficient newspaper printing machines of the year 2016. Read more ...
  • Goss Announces New Partnership with Elettra to Beat Waste and Add Value
    2016-09-27 09:06
    September 26th 2016 – As part of its ongoing strategy to establish industry partnerships that can deliver value-added solutions for customers, Goss International has announced a new collaboration with Elettra Srl, leading manufacturer of automatic blanket washing systems. Read more ...
  • First Successful Pecom Transformation at Minneapolis Star Tribune
    2016-09-26 12:53
    September 26, 2016 – manroland web systems has successfully met the scheduled milestone for the Phase 1 portion of the controls retrofit project underway at the Star Tribune Media Company, based in Minneapolis-St. Paul. The scope of Phase 1 includes replacing the existing obsolete control system installed in 2003 with a new manroland web systems PECOM system and operator interface. Read more ...
  • Launch of International Best Practice Guide ‘Optimised Paper Handling and Logistics’
    2016-09-21 08:23
    September 21, 2016 – On September 21, 2016 the best practice guide ‘Optimised Paper Handling and Logistics’ has been launched publicly at the World Printers Forum Conference held in conjunction with the WAN-IFRA India Conference in Kolkata, India. Read more ...
  • Press Relocation: Reliability is the Key
    2016-09-20 09:46
    September 20, 2016 – Absolutely punctual and reliable processes paired with expertise for disassembly and reassembly: Relocating a printing press is challenging. manroland web systems successfully relocated a Uniset newspaper press within the city of Warsaw to the printing plant of the ZPR Media media company within a very short space of time. Read more ...
  • UPM Paper ENA renews its organisational structure
    2016-09-16 10:42
    (UPM, Augsburg, 12 September 2016 at 14:45 EET) – UPM Paper ENA will simplify its organisational structure. The new model consists of two strategic business units (SBUs) with revised customer focus, product ownership and asset allocation. Read more ...
  • Wenn eine Haftnotiz über Nacht die Titelseite(n) erobert
    2016-09-15 13:53
    Hinwil/Zürich, 15. September 2016 – Die Hinwiler Valecom AG realisierte auf heute, Donnerstag, für ifolor, den Schweizer Marktführer für personalisierte Fotoprodukte, die weltweit grösste MemoStick® Kampagne dieser Art. Der ifolor-Haftnotizzettel klebt heute auf der Frontseite von über 30 Tageszeitungen und deren Regionalausgaben in der ganzen Schweiz und im Fürstentum Liechtenstein – darunter auch auf allen Ausgaben der Pendlerzeitung 20 Minuten. Leserinnen und Leser von über zwei Millionen Zeitungsexemplaren erhalten einen 20 Prozent Gutschein auf alle Fotoprodukte von ifolor. Die auch logistisch höchst komplexe Leistung vollbrachte die Valecom im engen Zusammenspiel mit ifolor, den Zeitungsverlagen sowie mit elf Druckzentren aller grossen Medien- und Verlagshäuser der Schweiz. Read more ...

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