"If we've ever done something at the right moment, installing the new press was it." Andy Kleist, Menasha Preprint Production Manager
With today's industry-wide down-sizing, it takes a lot of confidence in a business model to commit to a major-league expansion. While others are downsizing, Menasha bucked the trend by going full ahead with a carefully planned expansion that included purchasing one of the largest wide web presses in the world and building a 44,000-square-foot addition to house it at the Menasha PrePrint facility.

Ancient House Printing Group, a family owned business based in Ipswich, was first established in 1845 as a book-selling and printing business in the historic building known as 'The Ancient House'. Rapid expansion saw the company divest the book-selling business, and then in 1985 move to its existing premises on an industrial estate just outside Ipswich where it is now spread over two buildings.

THIEME GmbH & Co. KG, the leading manufacturer of screen printing machines, with headquarters in Teningen, Germany, has developed a new generation of screen printing multi-colour lines. The series THIEME 5000 L, which is based on the proven THIEME multi-colour technology, offers the user the highest printing performance.

Web offset printing presses stretch thin films during the printing process; the films behave like a rubber band that has been pulled tight. Muller Martini has now developed StretchCorrectTM to ensure that the printing image is the correct length. Thanks to this new package, the Alprinta V web offset printing press guarantees that the printing image is the correct length, even for materials with variable elasticity.

AWT System to market, deliver and support CCI NewsGate in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia.

CCI is pleased to announce the appointment of AWT System as its exclusive strategic business partner for China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. The agreement will see AWT System market, deliver and support CCI NewsGate and associated solutions including online and digital.

Agfa Graphics will present further developments of its Eversify mobile publishing software at the World Newspaper Conference in Turin, Italy, June 7-9.

Eversify is the automated mobile publishing solution for tablets and smartphones. It captures existing content from any editorial or other content system. The latest version that will be shown at the World Newspaper Conference includes a number of new features that provide publishers of newspapers or magazines with advanced publishing options and improved reader analytics.

By Roberto Mercati

Meet José Antonio Larroy, owner of GraficaZ, a family-owned company specializing in printing self-adhesive and shrink labels in Zaragoza, Spain, and his daughter Jessica who with two assistant engineers from the Italian company Lombardi Ltd. in Brescia are carrying out the final inspection on the 8-color flexographic rotary Synchroline before shipment.

Ramallah Modern Press also invested in a Polar cutting machine

Ramallah Modern Press (RMP) in West Bank recently invested in an all new two colour Heidelberg Speedmaster 52 from Heidelberg plus a Polar cutting machine. The company behind the deal is Heidelberg Jordan Printing Development Co.

Not a lot seems to be written about it in terms of excitement about screen printing. And that's a shame, because the sector is brimming with exciting developments.

The market held its breath during the last two years at the rollercoaster happenings spelling manroland's fate. Langley Holdings' overhaul since the takeover breathed a new lease of life into the German press giant. Christel Lee of Print World Asia reports.

• Commercial print shop faced with shrinking run sizes, declining prices, and increasingly tight deadlines
• Anicolor technology scores highly with very short makeready times, excellent productivity, and minimal waste
• Anicolor press preferred to high-performance digital printing system
• Customer won over by successful preliminary tests

Years of trade events, news and developments mean a lot of ground has been covered in our fast-changing industry. Groundbreaking developments and new introductions in terms of technology, abilities and foremost applications have and are the norm. Well, print is evolving, and while traditional technologies are still asked for, new technologies and applications are just round the corner. Sabine A Slaughter voices some thoughts on our industry.