Ferag has added drum inserting to the mailroom it installed at the two-year-old Luton plant of the UK’s Daily Express, north of London.
The West Ferry Printers site in Luton opened in late 2011 at a ost of GBP65 million, and includes four KBA Commander CT presslines. It prints the Express, Daily Star and Daily Sport… runs totaling 4.5 million a week.
An integrated MSD-H drum system now inserts supplememts and advertising material automatically. The inserter can cope with high-volume runs by operating in 2:1 mode, and can handle up to four supplements.
Net output of around 70,000 copies per hour means printing deadlines and schedules for different titles can be maintained even with inserting, Ferag says.
The existing drum can be equipped with more hoppers and there are plans to install a second.
West Ferry – a subsidiary of Express Newspapers – moved to the eight-and-a-half acre from the Isle of Dogs, with a 13,000m2 warehouse converted to accommodate the two lines of Commander CT presses totalling 22 towers plus mailroom, reel store and office accommodation.