The company installed an HS News System, a pick-and-place product designed specifically for magazines, which Mosca built specifically for the company.

It is a close-coupled machine that adds a stabilising longitudinal strap before the bundle is conveyed to a standard machine.

Menzies can add one or two output lines on each HS packing system. Two Mosca inline automated strappers are used in conjunction with each HS output line.

Strategic director David Morton said: "End-of-line strapping is absolutely essential to the smooth running of the entire production line. As we work multishift to tight deadlines, we cannot afford bottlenecks. All products must be quickly and efficiently prepared for delivery to customers."

Menzies delivers around 8m newspapers and magazines to 25,000 retail outlets across the UK.