The Flaxby Moor plant will produce around 40 telephone directory titles a year, with print runs ranging from 100,000 to 500,000 copies.
The contract represents more than 20% of Pages Jaunes' directory business.
France Telecom representatives were some of the most important guests when RR Donnelley officially opened Flaxby Moor nearly a year and a half ago (PrintWeek, 22 June 2001).
Flaxby Moor already produces 40m telephone directories a year, including all of the UK Yellow Pages and Dutch Telecom directories. The 22,000m2 plant employs more than 300 staff and uses 70,000 tonnes of paper a year.
A month ago, RR Donnelley won a three-year extension to its contract with Yell and will now print 29m directories a year until 2009 (PrintWeek, 1 November). The deal comprises 94 titles and includes Yellow Pages and Business Pages. RR Donnelley started printing the first four-colour Yellow Pages last year.
Flaxby Moor, the first RR Donnelley plant to gain ISO 14001 environmental accreditation, houses five 64pp heatset presses - four MAN Roland Unisets and a Goss Universal - for directory printing, plus a five-colour MAN Roland 700 for covers and inserts.
Story by Gordon Carson
