The firm replaced two 17-year-old Wohlenberg guillotines with a Polar 98, complete with handing equipment. "The technology has moved on in the last 20 years, and we've just upgraded the pressroom so the bindery was the cow's tail," said managing director Michael Stoate. The Polar, set to be installed along with a Stahl KH66 folder in November, was specified with stacklift and unloader.
The Cheltenham Spa-based commercial printer has also installed two four-colour Speedmaster 74s, one straight and one perfecting, in the last 18 months.
"The reason we went with Heidelberg is that in the last five-years their reliability has been 100%," said Stoate. The firm believes this will be the end of investment for a while, having already gone CTP.
Stoate was full of praise for staff at Heidelberg Tamworth "from the person who answers the phone and on".
Story by Darryl Danielli
