World Association of News Publishers


Newspaper Production

Newspaper Production

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  • 2018-08-31 20:10
    Würzburg, 28.08.2018 – ColdsetInnovation Fulda has been printing two newspaper titles for a customer in China since the beginning of the year. The newspapers are produced for the Scandinavian region, the Benelux coun-tries and Germany. “Our Chinese partners are very demanding when it comes to newspaper quality. Our Commander satellite press’ register accuracy, extremely low fan-out and minimal makeready times tipped the scales in our favour,” says Siegfried Wahl, assistant vice-president and technical director at ColdsetInnovation Fulda. And, contrary to the general trend, the circulation of both news-papers (Berlin format) has increased by more than 10 percent this year. Siegfried Wahl: “Without our Commander this deal would not have come about. Our press operates flawlessly. We have been working successfully with Koenig & Bauer for decades and are very satisfied with the services they provide.” Read more ...
  • 2018-08-29 13:30
    22.08.2018 – Czech media group Mafra operates two printing plants. They were originally geared to printing the Republic’s leading newspapers but have long since developed into coldset print service providers offering a broad portfolio. Investment in a Ferag UniDrum in November 2017 tripled stitching capacity at the Prague location. Read more ...
  • 2018-08-28 13:11
    Centro Stampa, Switzerland, 16 August 2018 – Centro Stampa is the leading newspaper printing company in the southern part of Switzerland. Next to daily newspapers, the company also print weekly magazines. In February 2018, they added two Attiro VHS clean-out units to their existing Agfa CtP lines. Read more ...
  • 2018-08-20 13:25
    Baden, Switzerland, August 17, 2018 – ABB, one of the leading suppliers of automation solutions for the newspaper industry, will be taking part once more at this year’s IFRA World Publishing Expo in Berlin. We will be exhibiting on stand E.06 together with ProImage, 3T Control Precision Systems and MakroSolutions. On the one stand you will find solutions across the whole newspaper production process. Read more ...
  • 2018-08-20 10:26
    August 17, 2018 – manroland web systems and Goss International (“Goss”), both long-time web offset printing manufacturers and service providers, announce that they have completed the transaction to combine their businesses. The new company will operate under the brand name “manroland Goss web systems” and will be the strongest supplier to web printing companies worldwide. Read more ...

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  • The newspaper industry is under pressure globally. While in the West, decline of the newspaper has been rapid, in the East, newspapers will probably survive for longer. However, there are several pressures on the newspaper industry in the East as well – competition from digital readership, increasing input costs, reducing advertising spends, and so on. In such a scenario, it is important for newspaper industry players to collaborate to improve internal operational efficiencies across the industry. Through such an effort the overall industry will stand to benefit. With this objective in mind, an industry-wide benchmarking exercise was carried out to identify specific improvement opportunities across players. The result has been extremely encouraging. This report details out the methodology and findings of this benchmarking exercise.
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