Manugraph DGM Inc. last month sold press equipment to Mexican newspaper publisher El Debate.

The publisher will install the equipment in two sites, including a new plant in Culiacan, which will house two DGM 440UV four-high towers, a 1035 folder and quarter folder. The press will be equipped with UV systems from Prime UV that will enable the publisher to attract commercial accounts.

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Standing, left to right, Dave Moreland, vice president of sales and marketing, Manugraph DGM Inc.; Peter Booth, sales agent for Mexico and Latin America; and Javier Salido, managing director of El Debate. Seated, Ildefonso Salido, chairman of the board, El Debate.

The machine will feature footprint shaftless drive, fan-out correction, spiral brush dampening, ultrasonic web break detection, a Perretta Graphics remote inking system, AWS oil-cooling system and a QTI color-to-color, cutoff and register control. Jardis is providing infeeds and splicers and Prisco is installing a chilled water system package. The press will be installed later this year after completion of the Culiacan facility.

In Los Mochis, MDGM is installing a 14-unit 430 press, configured as a four-high tower, seven floor units and three stacked units. Installation will conclude in April.

El Debate owns newspapers in Los Mochis, Mazatlan and Culiacan, with a combined circulation of more than 145,000 daily.

 

Meantime, MDGM said it sold a 20-unit 430 singlewide press to Russian publisher Ofsetnaya Gazetnaya Fabrica.

The press will be configured as four towers and have two 1035 folders with quarterfolders, MDGM said. The units are equipped with motorized register control, a DGM ultrasonic web detection system and a special web-up platform. It’s driven by a Siemens digital drive system. The press will go on-edition this spring at the publisher’s plant in Yekaterinburg, where it will be used to print four daily papers and one weekly publication.