host posted on July 01, 2011 18:25
The first stage of an £11 million capital equipment programme by sheet-fed magazine printer Buxton Press has begun with a £1 million+ order for finishing equipment supplied by Friedheim International.
The order comprises two fully automatic K800 MBO folders with the scope to install a further two, a 15-station Wohlenberg City 6000e perfect binding line complete with three-knife trimmer and stacker, plus an updated guillotine materials handling system. All the equipment will be installed at Buxton’s Derbyshire site by late summer.
Kirk Galloway, managing director of Buxton Press, says: "While we've been delighted with the support of our current suppliers, we feel Friedheim has the edge to accommodate all our immediate business requirements and we are looking forward to working with the company on this project.
"This generation of new equipment offers significant improvements in productivity that will assist in reducing our operating cost base in the aggressively competitive sector of magazine printing."
Other plans in Buxton's investment programme include a major upgrade of the press hall, plus new presses every year from 2012 to 2018, a move that will allow it to compete at the lower end of the web market.
"Despite very difficult trading conditions, Buxton has benefited from two back-to-back record-breaking years,” says Kirk Galloway. “This latest investment perhaps heralds the first green shoots of returning confidence in a substantially restructured UK magazine print market."