Honeywell will upgrade press and drive systems at Edda Trykk, Norway’s second largest publisher.

Printa press control and shaftless drive systems will be upgraded on two Goss Universal press lines – comprising four folders and 22 towers – at the company’s plant in Stokke.

The order provides new commercial input/output modules, updates safety systems and increases drive system redundancy.

Edda Trykk is owned by Amedia AS, which was formed in 2012 through a merger between A-pressen and Edda Media. The company publishes 78 print titles in various countries including Norway and Russia.

“Replacing obsolete components will help our Stokke site continue printing newspapers on the existing presses into the 2020s,” says plant manager Nils Morten Vestskogen. “A key benefit is that the upgrades can be achieved without disrupting production by making changes gradually, part by part.”

Honeywell says existing Bitbus I/Os will be changed to commercial Profibus I/Os, the controllers of the towers and folders will be upgraded to Honeywell Field Controller. The shaftless drive system will move from an optical Sercos II to an ethernet-based Sercos III network with new drives and motors.

Redundancy will be added by separating the tower pairs’ drive networks, thereby reducing the risk of drive failures.