Chinese Publisher Orders 12 Goss Newsliner 90 Towers

By: E&P Staff A user of Goss presses for 25 years, Shenzhen Press Group, in the Shenzhen Special Zone, signed an order late last month for five Newsliner 90 presses from Goss International, which calls it China's largest newspaper web press order by contract amount.

The value of contract was not disclosed.

The order consists of five Goss doublewide shaftless Global Newsliners with 12 four-high printing towers, five 2:5:5 jaw folders, and 16 Goss CT50P reelstands. Capable of producing up to 90,000 copies per hour with single delivery, the presses will be equipped with Goss DigiRail digital inking systems.

To be built in Goss' factory in Sayama, Japan, all five presses are to ship by the end of 2006 for in-line installation in a new 40,000-square-meter plant being built in the Shenzhen City suburbs.

Shenzhen Press Group publishes eight newspapers and four magazines in southern China. Its full-color flagship, Shenzhen Special Zone Daily, circulates 480,000 58- to 84-page copies daily. Its main business paper, Shenzhen Economic Daily, has a circulation exceeding 550,000. Other big titles include Shenzhen Evening News (490,000 copies) and The Daily Sunshine (600,000 copies).

At its Preston, England, factory, Goss will build a four-high Goss Universal 70 tower addition for Staffordshire Newspapers Ltd. To be installed in a Burton-on-Trent plant, it is scheduled to be in production in spring.

Purchased to increase color capacity and pagination, the Universal tower will extend the company's existing Goss press. The shaftless tower will be positioned at a right angle to the press line and will increase color output by 16 pages for tabloid titles, enabling Staffordshire Newspapers to meet rising demand for full-color advertising.

Staffordshire Newspapers prints a number of regional publications, including its own daily, the Burton Mail, four paid weeklies, a free weekly, and several local magazines. It is one of four regional newspaper publishing companies owned by Iliffe News and Media Ltd., a division of Yattendon Investment Trust, a multimedia and property owner in the United Kingdom and Canada.