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The Fujifilm Grand Prix
FUJIFILM supplies a wide range of award-winning solutions for the newspaper industry, all designed to help improve production performance.
Due to an unprecedented investment programme in plate R&D and manufacturing, FUJIFILM is now able to offer the most complete, high quality, environmentally-friendly range of CTP plate products in the industry. FUJIFILM's Brillia range of CTP plates for the newspaper industry now comprises violet and thermal versions, with both processed and chemistry-free derivatives available.
From the FUJIFILM Brillia LH-NN2 high-speed thermal plate through to the Brillia PRO-VN chemistry-free photopolymer plate, there is a FUJIFILM plate solution to suit the specific needs of any newspaper printer. Underpinned by a world-wide support infrastructure and plate manufacturing capability, FUJIFILM has developed a platform to build on its position as the number one plate supplier in the market.
Thanks to a global commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility and a very close co-operation with the leading newspaper press, ink and paper manufacturers, FUJIFILM has also developed a safer range of non-irritant fount solutions developed specifically for the newspaper industry, perfectly complementing its plate range.
However, it's not just through consumables where FUJIFILM adds value. FUJIFILM's XMF C-Fit software allows newspaper publishers to improve the quality and efficiency of image optimisation in busy newspaper publishing environments. Using FUJIFILM's Image Intelligence- technology, XMF C-Fit automates the process of analysing and improving RGB images that arrive from various sources, resulting in much more consistent image reproduction.
Adrian Muttitt, national sales manager for newspapers, says: "Companies looking for stable suppliers in a difficult and highly competitive market need to partner with organisations that will be around tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. Fujifilm is today one of the very few companies that can offer that guarantee. We’re committed to offering world-class solutions to meet all market needs, providing customers with guaranteed consistent, high quality."
Agfa means good news for newspaper printers - Agfa is the world's foremost expert in newspaper production, including all aspects of workflow, networking, digital colour prepress, and digital and analogue plates.
Their comprehensive solutions meet the key demands of newspaper printing environments - speed, reliability, and quality, and all over the world they are helping newspapers meet the demands of daily production.
Agfa systems bring more colour into their publications, streamline their workflow, and meet even the toughest deadlines. Most importantly, Agfa solutions impact their bottom line as well, bringing new profitability to newspaper operations of all sizes.
A number of exciting new products were unveiled at IFRA 2003 including -
: Advantage DL3850 entry-level CtP system
: Arkitex newspaper workflow automation
: Afirma closed-loop quality control system
: Polaris XE medium speed CtP system
: Sherpa 44m 7-colour proofing solution
: Intellitune 3.1 intelligent image processing
: N91v photopolymer violet plate
: Sublima XM screening technology
Laurence Roberts, Agfa's Graphic Systems Director, says: Quite an impressive line up, I'm sure you'll agree. You will find that only Agfa can offer this kind of continuous commitment to product innovation year in and year out. Plus a package of systems and support services all designed to help newspapers compete successfully in today's demanding market.
Environmental Newspaper Company of the Year
The UPM Premier Award
UPM leads the integration of bio and forest industries into a new, sustainable and innovation-driven future. Our products are made of renewable raw materials and are recyclable. UPM consists of three Business Groups: Energy and pulp, Paper, and Engineered materials. The Group employs around 24,000 people and it has production facilities in 14 countries.
Within the UK, UPM has three production facilities, a forestry management business and sales offices for its paper, timber and plywood products. Its paper mills are located in North Wales and south west Scotland. UPM Shotton in North Wales is the largest newsprint manufacturer in the UK with a capacity to produce 500,000 tonnes of high quality 100% recycled newsprint for the UK and international publishing markets.
UPM Shotton's recycling operation recovers more than 650,000 tonnes of newspapers and magazines each year – the equivalent to a third of UK households. Working closely with local authorities and waste management companies, UPM is committed to long term sustainable partnerships helping divert recyclable waste from landfill.
The company's commitment to sustainability extends even further with the use of renewable energy generated from biomass. The combined heat power plant started up in 2006 and is enabled to mill to further reduce its CO2 emissions by 100,000 tonnes per year. This brings the total amount of CO2 emission reductions to over 650,000 tonnes. This exciting development has enabled the newsprint mill to achieve the Queen's Award for Enterprise: Sustainable Development which was awarded earlier this year.
UPM Shotton will celebrate 25 years of sustainable success in May 2010. Our passion for quality, environmental performance and long lasting partnership is still as strong today. This is matched by the high quality of entries for the Environmental Newspaper Company of the Year award.
UPM – The Biofore Company – www.upm-kymmene.com
National Newspaper of the Year
The manroland Premier Award
The revolution in newspaper printing has started and manroland is leading the way with One Touch technology.
Manroland is the world leader in the creation of innovative and highly productive newspaper printing solutions. The manufacturer’s market-leading position has been emphasised in recent years by massive orders from companies such as News International and most recently with the introduction of automated newspaper production thanks to One Touch technology.
Manroland is capable of providing the complete newspaper package with its "Total Solution" initiative. This can begin with overall factory design, and can include a full range of products. In planning and plant management, manroland provides its printnet system to network all of the sub-systems involved in production, from booking ads right through to printing, finishing, mailroom and delivery.
Printservices complemented by printcom, printnet and printadvice, make up a unique portfolio of services for manroland printing solutions. Manroland's understanding of the print industry and dedication to increased quality and reliability mean that it's after sales support and pressroom supplies are the best available.
For finishing and mailroom products manroland provides the Schur Packaging range of equipment, which completes the company's involvement in virtually every stage of the production process. Products from Schur can be combined to provide a highly automated and highly efficient mailroom for newspaper and magazine publishers. The comprehensive range includes grippers, conveyers, inserters, stackers, packaging lines, palletising, and loading bay equipment. Packaging lines include underwrappers, film wrappers and cross strapping machines. Schur has over 30 years of experience in providing the very best mailroom solutions throughout the world.
To be successful, you need to know you're buying equipment that produces fantastic results quickly and reliably from a company that gives you great back-up.
Headquartered in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, AbitibiBowater Europe is one of the largest suppliers of newsprint to the E.U. and the only North American based player that operates its own newsprint mill in Europe.
Some 400,000 tonnes of used newspapers and magazines are collected and re-processed each year by the Bridgewater mill in Ellesmere Port to produce 100 percent premium quality newsprint for all of the leading UK publishers. Customers include Associated Newspapers, Express Newspapers, Guardian Media Group, Johnston Press, News International, Newsquest, Telegraph Newspapers and a host of regional titles.
Through Bridgewater and several of its North American mills AbitibiBowater enjoys a healthy share of the UK newsprint market, with the Ellesmere Port mill accounting for over 20 percent of total domestic newsprint capacity.
Through AbitibiBowater Europe, which also sources its supplies from the Group’s North American mills and works through a network of exclusive partner agents, newsprint is sold to a number of well-known newspapers on the Continent - among them De Telegraaf in Amsterdam; Le Soir in Brussels; L’Est Républicain in Nancy; El Mundo in Madrid; Marca, Spain’s leading sports daily; Bild Zeitung in Hamburg and WAZ in Essen.
Technical support is spearheaded by an in-house team of specialists in Ellesmere Port, with Europe-wide customer service and logistics back-up.
Digital News Service of the Year
The PCS Award
With an impressive portfolio of proven integrated systems specifically designed to maximise the potential efficiency and profitability of information publishing, Press Computer Systems (PCS) is the leading systems supplier to the UK publishing industry. Having over three decades of experience developing both traditional pre-press systems and new media publishing applications PCS has the expertise to help their customers to drive their publishing business forward both in terms of revenue and technology.
PCS offer a range of software tools that can assist in all aspects of newspaper publishing. From commercial, editorial and production systems through to circulation, distribution and the internet, PCS continue to maintain a position at the cutting edge of technology in order to develop the best systems for their customers' needs.
PCS is part of the Claverley Group, a British group, which includes the Wolverhampton Express & Star, the Shropshire Star, Precision Colour Printing and the Guiton Group (Jersey Evening Post, Guernsey Press, Itex Group, CIN Group).
Niche Market Newspaper of the Year
The Newsprinters Award
Newsprinters is the newspaper manufacturing subsidiary of News International. Our goal is clear - to be the best newspaper printer in the world. To help achieve this aim we have invested over £650 million on the latest technologies and equipment from the world's leading suppliers to the newspaper industry.
But it's not just about the nuts and bolts. We recognise that without an expert and motivated workforce even the best equipment in the world will not guarantee print of the very highest quality. That's why we are committed to building the most skilled team in the world of newspaper production.
We have three print locations and when it comes to impressive statistics they take some beating. Across the three sites there are 19 state-of-the-art manroland triple width presses - each the height of four double decker buses - producing an impressive 86,000 full colour newspapers an hour.
Broxbourne in Essex, is on a site equivalent in size to 23 football pitches and is the world's largest newspaper manufacturing plant. Eurocentral, based near Motherwell, houses the largest printing press installed anywhere in the world, capable of running 288 tabloid pages in full-colour straight. Situated in Liverpool, our Knowsley plant is home to five brand new presses.
Every day of the year we ensure that our News International titles reach their huge audience -household names like The Times, News of the World, The Sun, and The Sunday Times.
But we're also geared for other newspaper publishers to benefit from our £650 million investment. We're already printing The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph and we're producing titles for the Champion Media Group and the Glasgow Solicitors Property Centre Guide (GSPC). In late 2009 the northern editions of The Financial Times moved to Knowsley.
Our mission - to be the best newspaper manufacturer in the world. Why not contact us and let us prove it.
Weekly Newspaper of the Year
The Ferag, WRH Marketing Award
WRH Marketing presents the Ferag innovative technology developed in Switzerland for post-press processing in the newspaper and commercial printing industry. Over the last 30 years Ferag has established a worldwide reputation for leadership in Newspaper mailroom and Commercial printing bindery technology, supplying proven products, bespoke solutions and services in partnership with an unrivalled customer base around the word.
WRH Marketing has over recent years developed a range of added value business initiatives designed to provide its print partners with added value revenue streams. Initiatives such as MemoStick, MemoFlag, Xtrawin and Spot on are active in the markets today.
WRH Marketing represents a selection of trading partners capable of providing Pre-press, Press and Post-press machinery, solutions and technology to the print industry.
WRH Marketing UK Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of the WRH Marketing Group, which is a WRH Walter Reist Holding company employing approximately 1600 people worldwide. The head office is based in Hinwil near Zurich, Switzerland, which includes all sales and service activities for Group and partners.
National Colour Supplement of the Year and Regional Supplement/Magazine of the Year
The Precision Colour Printing Awards
PCP is now one of the leading magazine printing companies in the UK. The company has almost 30 years experience at the forefront of the printing world, and our dedication has led to us being named Print Week’s Consumer Magazine and Catalogue Printer of the Year (2006/2007) and we were shortlisted in two categories in 2009.
We pride ourselves on a true partnership approach and our long-established involvement with newspapers and publishers and their demand for fast turnaround times has created a working ethos which the company has encouraged with many of its external customers. This is partly due to the increasing speed with which the communications industry operates, and its constantly improving systems designed to maximise the delivery of up-to-the-minute news to the customer.
PCP is part of the Claverley group - publishers of the Express and Star and Shropshire Star newspapers in the West Midlands and Shropshire.
Coldset Colour Supplement of the Year
The Sun Chemical Award
Sun Chemical has long been known for innovation, technical expertise, and for the quality and performance of its products. It offers enhanced value, service and support to its customers across all sectors of the printing market.
In the newspaper industry, Sun Chemical specialises in the development, production and supply of state-of-the-art coldset web offset inks. In addition, Sun Chemical offers our customers a single-source supply of all their pressroom consumables, guaranteeing best-in-class products that have been selected for their excellent compatibility with the company’s inks and coatings.
As the world's foremost producer of inks, pigments and colour technology, Sun Chemical will lead the industry in developing and producing products which minimise its impact - and its customers' impact - on the environment, and strive to maximise the use of renewable resources.
With ink ranges such as Polar Advantage, a high performance newspaper ink and Shark, the ultimate waterless product, Sun Chemical is committed to print quality as well as productivity.
The cost of ink can no longer be viewed in isolation; it must be seen as a part of the whole solution. Therefore Sun Chemical has been working with companies in the paper, plate, roller, press, inserting and pre-press supply chain to control the total print cost.
Sun Chemical continues to extend the boundaries of ink technology and to improve the products supplied to the industry. It is recognised as the “Ink Supplier of Choice”, the company that sets the standards, the company that others are judged by, a benchmark for the industry.
Best Use of New Media
The Atex Award
Atex, headquartered in Reading, UK, is a leading provider of software systems and services to the global media industry. With a 37-year history of continuous innovation and commitment to quality, Atex has the largest advertising, editorial, circulation and Java web content management software delivery capability in the world.
With over $1 billion USD worth of software installed worldwide, Atex supports more than 850 customers in 54 countries. Atex regional offices are located around the world, supporting both in-house and hosted managed services solutions. Atex has the largest R&D investment in the industry, and partners with world-leading complementary solutions providers to enhance its system integration and web services development activities. www.atex.com
Personality of the Year
The Production Journal Award
Production Journal is the monthly review of newspaper and news media technology. Written and produced by newspaper people, for newspaper people, PJ has been the industry¹s bible since 1958. It is the only UK and Irish publication dedicated solely to news media technology.
Accompanying PJ is an annual Guide to Newspaper Contract Printers, and an annual Guide to Newspaper Suppliers. PJ is owned by the Newspaper Society, which represents regional and local media owners across the UK, and is published on its behalf by Cullum Publishing. PJ is also online at www.newstech.co.uk
Newspaper Design of the Year
The Papermule Award
Papermule is a leading supplier of innovative pre-press workflow automation and asset management systems for advertising production.
From the first receipt of digital content in the system to the output of finished advertising content for cross-media publication, Papermule solutions deliver the process and asset management control required to automate workflow and track production status at every step of the process. Wherever information is needed by newspaper professionals to support decision making and drive production, Papermule provides data-on-demand to them at the time and process point it is needed. Its workflow automation solutions free staff from repetitive tasks, reducing errors, increasing productivity and reducing the costs of production.
The Papermule product range supports the automation of pre-press workflows for:
Production
Copy chasing/matching
Approval
Library archiving
All products can be tailored to match the exacting demands of the implementation context while maintaining the innate flexibility that allows Papermule solutions to adjust to changing requirements and evolve with the business over time. Papermule also provides its products to customers as an outsourcing service for the production function.
Flexible, configurable, scalable, and automated – these are key words that define the essence of Papermule's products. Add improved quality, productivity, and efficiency to the list and you have a description of the advantages and cost benefits that installing our solutions will bring to your newspaper production. Our workflow automation frees professionals to be more productively employed, giving room for business growth and economic gains across the board.
Papermule's team is committed to delivering all these benefits and is passionate about the software they build to meet the business and technical demands of the industry. Our company is dedicated to the continual development of the solutions that publishers need to invest in and to delivering the highest possible level of service to meet our customers' needs.
Best Use of Colour – Newspapers & Niche
The Flint Group Award
Flint Group are now widely recognised as the leading and largest European manufacturer of coldset inks and print solutions for the newspaper industry.
With a state of the art, fully automated manufacturing facility, located within the UK and further dedicated coldset manufacturing sites throughout Europe they have successfully channelled the technical expertise and experience of many great ink manufacturers into one progressive organisation.
Through manufacturing excellence and a fully innovative approach to raw material selection, they have established a product portfolio, which displays excellence in technical stability and consistency time after time.
Flint Group are demonstrating that they are fully committed to the newspaper industry with the UK News Ink Division being dedicated to the Newspaper industry in the UK and Ireland.
Flint Group see future success being dependent on total customer focus and satisfaction, and the fulfilment of developing true technical partnerships within the industry.
Regional Newspaper of the Year
The Goss International Premier Award
Goss International is one of the largest web offset press suppliers in the world. Goss maintains a comprehensive product portfolio featuring advanced technologies in the newspaper and commercial web press sectors, providing expertise in presses and additions, finishing solutions, and lifetime support.
Goss newspaper presses in the 16 to 24-page segment include the innovative Goss Flexible Printing System, Goss Colorliner and the Goss Mainstream press. The Goss Uniliner family of presses is designed for high productivity, print quality, consistency and low waste.
Goss newspaper presses in the 4 to 8-page segment include the Goss Universal range, Magnum, Community and Mercury press systems and all are designed to satisfy a wide range of customer applications in the 35,000 to 80,000 cph speed range.
Goss commercial presses include the Goss Sunday press series the market leading 16-page Goss M-600 press, the M-500 and 32-page M-800 press systems.
Goss International offers a range of finishing solutions for the newspaper and commercial web sectors, including the Goss Magnapak inserter and Goss Pacesetter saddle sticher.. For heatset applications the Goss Ecocool dryer is the system of choice for customers in both the newspaper and commercial web markets as is the Goss FD reelstand.
Goss International is an independent company with operations in the United Kingdom, United States, France, The Netherlands, Japan and China.
Weekend Newspaper of the Year
The OneVision Award
OneVision is an established international provider of innovative and cost-effective software solutions designed to secure, optimize, and simplify complex production workflows for the printing, publishing and media industries. OneVision’s software ensures quality, saves time and reduces costs in data- and image-intense pre-press and pre-media operations.
Our software solutions:
- Asura: Streamlines and automates the preflighting, optimization and normalization processes in print production
- Amendo: Adjusts and enhances photos automatically within seconds
- Mirado: Repurposes print files and adds Rich Media content for online use
- Voyager, Workspace, Connect: Comprehensive file logistic solutions combining 24/7 online access with file flow control and monitoring, online approval processes and the flexibility to move files from anywhere to anywhere in premedia workflows
- Contenio: Rich Media Preflight and Malware Detection Software for Online Ad Ops
- PlugINKSAVEin: Solution for ink reduction
- Solvero: Comprehensive solution for editing texts, graphics, images and colour in PDF, XPS, EPS, and PostScript files
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