Africa
Other: Three Goss Community presses installed within two months
Goss International undertook three installations of its Community presses, one each in Bahrain, Oman and Egypt.
The first web press was for the Police Press Pension Fund in Cairo, Egypt. A two-tower Goss Community with two SSC folders has been installed. Its configuration allows printing of two webs of 16 tabloid pages or one web of 32 tabloid pages in a single pass, complementing production of eight existing sheetfed presses.
For Apex Press and Publishing, operating in the Sultanate of Oman since 1980, the decision to invest came as it found that using contract printers was becoming increasingly problematic as its portfolio grew. Printers of Muscat Daily, chief executive of Apex, Saleh Zakwani said, "Most of our competitors focus on the Asian sub-continent, often using reconstituted news from the Internet. But our approach is to cater to a reader profile that is essentially multicultural but with the limitation that, for us, local news is king". Apex has 4, four-colour towers, one of which is dedicated to heatset pages for high-quality advertising and cover sections.
In Bahrain, two months ago, a new Community press went on-edition at Al Watan for Publishing & Distribution. The press is printing the daily newspaper of the same name - Al-Watan (meaning The Nation) - as well as a number of additional weekly and monthly publications. The new press line comprises five four-high towers, with ten 1270 mm (50") reelstands, one N40 10-web folder for half and quarter pages with upper former and a gas dryer.
