Publishers in China, Sweden, Norway and Chile are adding Goss technology to their existing production facilities.

The Yangcheng Evening News in Guangzhou City, China, which in 2002 added a third Goss Newsliner pressline, has placed an order for two new 4-high towers and one new 2-high tower. Two new reelstands as well as a counter stacker will also join the new tower additions.

AB Allehanda in Ornskoldsvik, Sweden, installed two 4-high towers to its existing shaftless Goss Community Press. The new towers will give the publisher the ability to print 120,000 copies per day, a nine-fold increase over its capacity two years ago.
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“Our new printing center in Guangzhou City is a key element in our strategy to stay the most influential news group in China,” said Yan Ge Fei, deputy general manager at the Yangcheng Evening News. “Our Goss Newsliner presses are making a major contribution in achieving this objective.”
The new extension will join the original configuration to be running by this spring. The third Goss Newsliner pressline will be comprised of five 4-high towers, one double-delivery folder and six reelstands.

Ge Fei said the newspaper is extending the press in order to increase its pagination and to add color. The newspaper faced growing demands for color last year, Ge Fei said, and the daily wants to keep pace.

Adding color capacity

Meantime, AB Allehanda in Ornskoldsvik, Sweden, installed two 4-high towers to its existing shaftless Goss Community press. The press, located at AB Allehanda’s regional newspaper publishing plant, now consists of nine 4-high towers, one folder with upper former, stitcher and quarter folder and nine reelstands. This gives the publisher a single-run capacity of 72 tabloid pages, with full color on every page.

The new capacity will give the publisher the ability to print 120,000 copies per day, a nine-fold increase over its capacity two years ago, the company said.

Norwegian publisher Harstad Tidende, now part of the Schibsted Group, has placed an order for two shaftless 4-high Goss Universal 45 towers to increase the color capacity of its current rival single-width press.

Harstad will expand the press, supplied in 1996 by an Asian supplier, over a number of carefully planned extensions, the company said.

“We have been planning to upgrade our existing press for a couple of years to increase color capacity,” said Asmund Kildal, Harstad’s plant manager.

The expansion will let the publisher boost its color capacity from 64 pages to 80 pages, Kildal said.

The new press will include two shaftless 4-high Universal 45 towers, which will be positioned to replace two existing mono units at each end of the press.

Each tower will be fitted with undershot open fountain remote inking, remote circumferential and lateral register control, and shaftless drives.

Digital migration

Finally, El Mercurio, in Santiago, Chile, said it would add digital inker page packs and new controls to its current Goss presses.

El Mercurio will add digital capabilities to 57 printing couples of its Metroliner press. New press controls, meanwhile, will be installed on its Metroliner, Metrocolor and Colorliner presslines.

The press controls will allow all the presses to receive density presetting information directly from El Mercurio’s CTP unit.

The El Mercurio chain has a total of 15 dailies throughout Chile. The same printing facility also prints the morning tabloid newspaper Las Ultimas Noticias and the afternoon tabloid La Segunda.