Printworks expansion protects 100 jobs
By Leah McBride Mensching, Friday 1 February 2008 at 21:21 :: Printing & Production Systems :: #1190 :: rss
A printworks expansion project costing Newsquest and its Herald publishers four million pounds is expected to protect more than 100 jobs, AllmediaScotland reported Friday.
The investment in the Cambuslang, Scotland plant will go to two new tower print units and revamping a third tower, which enables the plant to produce full-colour, 128-page tabloid-sized newspapers for Newsquest rival Associated Newspapers. Associated recently signed an agreement stating it will continue printing its Scottish Daily Mail and Scottish Mail on Sunday at the Cambuslang plant until 2022.
The plant already had 12 towers, some with full-colour and some with only black and white. With the investment, there will be 14 towers, all with full-colour. To install the towers, parts of the press hall had to be dismantled, and cranes were used to fit the towers in two sections during the eight months it took to install them, according to AllmediaScotland.
During the expansion project, the Evening Times, The Herald and Sunday Herald, as well as 30 other titles, continued to be printed at the plant. Newsquest has 11 other print facilities in the United Kingdom.
Alistair Gay, production editor, told AllmediaScotland that the new flagship print centre for Newsquest is one of the most productive in the United Kingdom. “ We have the ability to produce more than five million newspapers every week and full-colour 128-page tabloid newspapers in half the time it previously took.”
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