Sunday Press Bound for Imprimerie F.L. Chicoine
SAINT-GERMAIN-DE-GRANTHAM, QUEBEC—Imprimerie F.L. Chicoine will establish a new web printing division and add a building near its 22,000-square-foot sheetfed operation to house a 57˝ Goss Sunday 2000 press. The new machine, due to arrive in mid-year, will feature Goss Omnicon controls and the automated Goss Web Center workflow system. Goss International will supply a Contiweb CS splicer and an Ecocool dryer with the system, as well as a PCF-1 combination folder and a PFF-2 former folder.
Gapless blanket technology and the wider 24-page format are expected to provide quality, productivity and efficiency advantages over typical 16-page web presses, according to François Chicoine, who co-owns the firm with his wife, Line Chamberland. “By equipping the press with high-performance pinless combination and former folders, we will also be able to offer our customers a tremendous variety of product formats.”