World Association of News Publishers


Newspaper Production

Newspaper Production

Publishers and printers around the world have come to expect WAN-IFRA to provide the most up-to-date know-how about production processes, whether it be in prepress, printing, workflow or postpress. Its range of advisory services, trainings, reports and events are unparalleled.

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  • 2017-05-10 10:44
    Würzburg, 09.05.2017 – The Koenig & Bauer group commenced on a high note in 2017, the year in which it celebrates its 200th anniversary, with a 20.7% increase in order intake to €321.5m. At €259.1m, group revenue remained at the previous year’s level, while order backlog widened by 6.4% to €619.9m. EBIT came to €5m, substantially exceeding the previous year’s figure of €2.1m. The group net profit of €4.7m (2016: €1.6m) is equivalent to earnings per share of €0.30 (2016: €0.11). Read more ...
  • 2017-05-10 09:45
    Gelting, 09.05.2017 – Mit Wirkung zum 01. Juni 2017 wird Herr Erich Wirthwein gemeinsam mit Herrn Dr. Schwarzer die Geschäftsführung am Standort Geretsried/Gelting übernehmen. Herr Wirthwein folgt Herrn Jörg Westphal, der aus dem Unternehmen zum Monatsende ausscheidet. Read more ...
  • 2017-05-09 13:33
    Chicago, IL, 8th May 2017 – Contracted by Gannett Publishing Services, Harland Simon has replaced the Metso Automatic Storage and Retrieval System (ASRS) at The Courier Journal in Louisville, KY. The new system allows for the maintenance of an inventory of newspaper rolls within the warehouse, storage bins and roll preparation areas. The upgrade ensures rolls can be delivered to the reel pans in a timely manner. Read more ...
  • 2017-05-09 13:03
    May 9, 2017 – In keeping with the company motto: „Tradition meets Innovation“, the 1823 founded Vorländer publishing house decided to modernize its printing facility in Dreis-Tiefenbach, Germany with the new newspaper press Geoman e:line that has been introduced at drupa 2016. Read more ...
  • 2017-05-05 10:30
    04.05.2017 – Amedia is Norway’s largest publisher of local media titles – with a daily audience of more than two million readers and users. For its printing activities in Norway Amedia Trykk og Distribusjon, one of Norway's biggest coldset newspaper printers, runs seven printing plants spread across the whole country – from Bodø in the far north to Larvik, 1200 kilometers southward. To synchronize and coordinate the overall production Amedia Trykk og Distribusjon are using MWM's cloud-based Production Planning tool (PPC). It supports in six of those printing plants the planning for around 65 titles. 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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