Emap has consolidated all its coldset printing work at Peterboro Web, part of the Johnston Press printing division.

Five weekly magazines Motor Cycle News, Bikemart, Angling Times, Garden News, and Classic Car Weekly are now being printed on the plants KBA press.

The contract, which involves printing a minimum of 400,000 copies a week, is worth 3.5m a year. The firm already printed Angling Times and Classic Car Weekly, and the contract for Motor Cycle News began two weeks ago.

The plant used to print Motor Cycle News, but lost the contract three years ago due to a lack of colour capacity. But it upgraded its press last year with two four-high Goss towers and a new folder.

The Johnston Press printing division has a turnover of 61m. It employs around 80 staff at Peterboro Web.

The plant is also trialling an Agfa Polaris CTP system. Sales director David Longworth said he hoped the first job to be produced CTP would be one of the Emap titles.

Divisional managing director David Crow said the firm was entering a "very exciting time with the investments we are making and the external contracts we have won".

The printing division is also trialling the CreoScitex Trendsetter CTP system using Kodak Polychrome Graphics plates.

Peterboro Web is poised to install an eight-tower, 10-reelstand, two-folder Goss Universal press (PrintWeek, 23 March). A single-folder model will be installed at Portsmouth, which is the largest site in the division. The orders were part of a 28m investment by Johnston Press in the printing division.

Story by Gordon Carson