Fretwell ups productivity with Push To Stop Speedmaster buy Richard Stuart-Turner Friday, February 12, 2021
Fretwell Print & Direct Mail has seen a boost in productivity after investing in a Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 75 5-L with AutoPlate Pro, Inpress Control and the new integrated Prinect product suite.
The new Push to Stop press replaced a five-year-old Speedmaster XL 75-5+LX
The Push to Stop press, which was the demonstration machine at Heidelberg’s Brentford showroom, was installed over the Christmas break at Keighley, West Yorkshire-based Fretwell’s 1,161sqm premises and has been running live production since the first week of January.
It has replaced a five-year-old Speedmaster XL 75-5+LX, which was part-exchanged with Heidelberg.
Monday, August 11, 2014
Back in June, Heidelberg chief Dr Gerold Linzbach didn’t beat around the bush when it came to telegraphing his intentions for parts of the group that were described as “less strategic”.
“We have some non-core business lines or products in which we will no longer invest,” he stated. “We will look for ways to make them more profitable and operate them primarily to generate cash. Why would you allocate large resources to a business that is clearly not as attractive as your core business? Just for size or volume of sales?”
Linzbach has now answered his rhetorical question, in part at least, by implementing the biggest single restructuring move since Heidelberg offloaded its web and digital divisions in 2004. A radical re-shaping of its post-press operations will see an entire factory closed in Germany, the loss of 650 jobs worldwide and the outsourcing of the manufacturing of packaging post-press products including the Diana folde
Print Scotland calls for more apprentices at annual awards Rhys Handley Tuesday, May 28, 2019
Print Scotland celebrated the new blood in the print industry with its fourth annual apprentice awards, while appealing for more support to expand training intake.
The gala event was held last week in Glasgow with around 60 attendees including family and friends of the winners, sponsors such as Antalis, HP and Muller Martini and members of Print Scotland.
James Taylor, an apprentice at Glasgow book printer Bell & Bain, won the top prize as overall Apprentice of the Year. His colleagues James McCredie and Louise Docherty won the post-press and press administration prizes.