Senegal daily newspaper Le Soleil is to install a new Tensor T-1400 web press.

The new ten-unit single-width press consisting of two towers plus two press units mounted on Tensor reelstands, and a T-1 jaw folder, will be installed in Dakar during fourth quarter this year.

The publisher plans to produce Le Soleil and various semicommercial products. One tower is being equipped with a UV curing system to provide additional capability for ad inserts and magazines.

“The addition of this press will make a positive impact on Le Soleil’s business model, especially as the UV technology will help expansion into semicommercial production,” says Tensor’s chief operating officer and sales vice president Mike Pavone.

Le Soleil dates to 1933 when French press publisher Charles de Breteuil founded the Paris-Dakar as a weekly newspaper. It then became the first daily newspaper in sub-Saharan Africa in 1936.

Following the independence of Senegal, the paper changed its name in 1961 to the Dakar-Matin, and in 1970 to Le Soleil. An online edition is at www.lesoleil.sn.