Heidelberg
and Goss International Corp. will continue to discuss how they might blend
operations, according to Werner H. Albrecht, president and chief executive
officer of Heidelberg’s web press division.
“Goss
looked at our factories in Europe and Dover, (N.H.), and we looked at theirs in
Nantes, France; Preston, England; Japan and China.” Albrecht told Newspapers
& Technology in late September. “Both sides are looking at the due
diligence process. We both want to understand what each company is doing in
order to have a basis for an evaluation for making decisions,” he said.
“It’s not a due diligence process where a decision has already been made.
It’s a due diligence preparing both sides to come to a decision.”
RWE,
the German conglomerate that owns a majority piece of Heidelberg, has not set a
deadline to sell the press manufacturer, Albrecht said, although RWE earlier
said it wanted to unload Heidelberg by the end of this year. (See related story,
page 27.)
Seattle’s
joint operating agreement will continue, a King County, Wash., judge ruled.
Superior Court Judge Greg Canova said The Seattle Times could not attribute
financial losses it suffered in 2000-2002 to the JOA it has with rival the
Seattle Post-Intelligencer. As of late September, The Times had not decided
whether or not it would appeal the ruling.
The
Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch tapped ABB to upgrade its press controls. The
newspaper will install nine of ABB’s MPS 750 press controls to replace
existing controls driving its three Mitsubishi presses.
The
retrofit will include new unit controls and press controls for product and
production planning.
Agfa
showed its Polaris XD-J platesetter for the first time at the International
Graphics Arts Show in Tokyo. The unit is available with either a violet or FD-YAG
laser.
The
Boston Globe purchased an SLS3000 inserter from GMA. GMA also sold two SLS3000
units to The Daily Press in Newport News, Va.
One
year ago
Calkins
Media, parent company of the Bucks County (Pa.) Courier Times, agreed to
purchase a GeoMAN 70 press from MAN Roland Inc. The newspaper also said it would
construct a new production facility in north suburban Philadelphia.
Five
years ago
The
State Journal Register in Springfield, Ill., purchased a second
computer-to-plate system from Cymbolic Sciences. The newspaper expected 90
percent of its pages to be produced with CTP by year-end 1998.
10
years ago
The
San Francisco Examiner showcased its new Apple Macintosh color publishing system
at Seybold San Francisco, using software developed by Radius. “Desktop
technology allows you to get closer to deadline, gives you more time to make
decisions and more time to wait for better pictures and stories,” said
Examiner development director Chris Gulker.
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