The 100,000-circulation Arabic daily prints a 40 page broadsheet with eight pages – the top and middle webs – on glossy newsprint. NMG placed the order in February and expects to print a magazine and some semicommercial work on the press.
Rated at 36,000 cph speed, it has a 578 mm cutoff and features including brushmist dampening, pneumatics, motorisation, automatic colour registration and cutoff controls. There are nine towers, with three folders, and ten splicers. The press is scheduled to be in production in November/December.
Another UV installation has just been commissioned in St Petersburg, where a seven-tower TPH Orient press has web curing on two towers. The state-owned complex produces nearly 40 million copies a month in a 27,019 m2 facility with a staff of 317.
In Port of Louis, Mauritius, TPH has installed a third Orient Super at Mauritius
Yukondale for a new daily tabloid and weekly magazine. The automated 546 mm cutoff machine has four towers – one with UV – two folders and a mono unit.