Offset Printing - Web

Effective July 1, 2014, Flint Group North America’s silicone prices increase 15 percent.

A new ultra-low VOC press wash for heatset and coldset web printers has been introduced by Flint Group North America.

A six-tower Goss Magnum Compact press, to be installed at Advance Publications, will be the first installed in the United States.

Solo Printing purchased its second fully automated five-color System 38S web press, making the company an all Komori facility.

Creps United Publications in Indiana, PA, has completed the installation of three new Goss Sunday insert presses.

Direct mail trade printer Tidewater Direct, has installed a two-color Goss Sunday 2000 web press at its Centreville, MD, facility. A sister press to its six-color Sunday 2000 printing press, the latest press will focus on the production of low-color direct mail component parts, commercial printing and pharmaceutical printing.

Baldwin Technology, a portfolio company of Forsyth Capital Investors, has acquired Web Printing Controls (WPC), a manufacturer of real-time closed loop automation equipment. The acquisition of WPC allows Baldwin to expand its product offerings to its customers and to provide aftermarket service to a large installed base of WPC equipment.

The world’s largest heatset commercial press from manroland web systems began operation on schedule at Kraft-Schlötels, part of the WKS Druckholding Group, in Wassenberg, Germany. “The LITHOMAN presses have absolutely proven themselves in daily operation when it comes to printing stability, quality, and, above all, productivity,” said Dr. Ralph Dittmann, manager of WKS.

EPI Marketing Services has added a five-color Baker Perkins G12 web offset press to its production and finishing department at its Indianapolis location. The machinery affords thousands of press configurations, along with inline folding, perforation, slitting, and scoring on press.

Retail insert printing specialist Creps United in Indiana, PA, suffered a devastating fire last October. Executives from the company and local officials broke ground in early March for a 100,000-square-foot facility that will house three new Goss Sunday web presses.