Express Newspapers orders first Goss
Magnum Compact for the southern hemisphere
L to R) Peter Kirwan, vice president of Asia Pacific, Goss
International; Keerthi Abeynayake of MD Scan Engineering
(Goss agent for Sri Lanka); and Kumar Nadesan, managing
director,
Express Newspapers.
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Express Newspapers (Ceylon) Limited
has ordered a Goss Magnum Compact
press for installation at its plant in
Colombo, Sri Lanka, for the production of
daily and weekly newspapers and semicommercial
magazines.
The order comprises three four-high
Magnum Compact towers with one folder
for 24-page single-width production with
546 mm cut-off. Installation is scheduled to
begin in spring 2015.
“The Magnum Compact press will give
us benefits on many levels,” said Kumar
Nadesan, managing director, Express
Newspapers. “Apart from providing
more page capacity, the new press is
highly automated which will make our
daily production more streamlined and
efficient.”
The new Goss Magnum Compact press for
Express Newspapers will deliver more page capacity
while making daily production more streamlined
and efficient.
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The Goss Magnum Compact press is the
world’s first – and only – 2x1 web offset
The Goss Autoplate platechanging
facility will enable
Express Newspapers to change
a full set of 24 plates in less
than five minutes, including ink
presets. In addition, the ability to
change a single plate in less than
one minute will allow Express
Newspapers to produce the
multiple language editions of the
company’s flagship newspaper,
Virakesari, with unprecedented
speed and efficiency. Full
automation with pre-setting,
automatic register control, ink
filling and automatic reelstands
are among the other time and
waste-saving features.
In addition to the three editions
of Virakesari (28-page Tamillanguage
daily with a circulation
of approximately 65,000 copies;
the 72-page Sunday Virakesari
has a circulation of around
120,000 copies), Express
Newspapers publishes a raft of newspapers
and coldset magazines, including
Metro News (daily, 25,000 copies); The
Vidivelli (weekly, 27,000 copies); The
Sooriyakanthi (weekly, 15,000 copies);
The Mithiran (weekly, 40,000 copies); The
Genuis (fortnightly, 20,000 copies); The
Jothidakesari (monthly, 10,000 copies); and
The Sugavalvu (monthly, 10,000 copies).
As the Goss Magnum Compact press
is equally suited to book and semicommercial
work as newspaper printing, it
is an attractive choice for the company.
“With the transformation of the
newspaper market, we want to be sure
that we are able to respond to new
circumstances,” Nadesan continued.
“The Magnum Compact press is a
game-changer in being able to offer
that versatility as well as the immediate
benefit of time and waste savings. This
made it our best choice to accommodate
different editions, jobs, and the
possibility of short runs for special
editions or commercial publications.”
The fast and automatic plate changes of
the Magnum Compact mean that plates can
be changed and good copy achieved faster
than on any other single-width newspaper
press on the market, making it viable for
short runs as low as 500 copies.
“We have a long history with Goss,”
Nadesan concludes. “We have relied on our
existing Goss Community SSC press for
many years. Now, the Magnum Compact
press will make us the most technologically
advanced newspaper publisher in the
region; its productivity, flexibility and
automation will ensure our competitive
edge well into the future.”
