UBP Printing in East Malaysia has upgraded its colour capacity with a new Goss Community SSC press. The Community has been installed in UBP’s facility in Kuching City to print the Chinese daily title, United Daily News, and copies of the Star Sarawak, East Malaysia edition.
The newly commissioned press has five, four-high printing towers, one SSC folder and six reelstands. According to Goss, this configuration gives the potential for 20-page broadsheet products in full colour or 24-page broadsheets with four pages in two colours using the sixth reelstand.
Sim Yong Liang, managing director at UBP Printing says, “We are under pressure to increase colour pages and also the print quality. Despite the world economy, local advertising demands are still increasing here and so too is the potential to gain contract printing work.
“For both of these requirements, we needed a press with a heritage of quality and flexibility. We believe the Goss Community press is the answer.”
UBP Printing is a subsidiary of United Borneo Press Group, based in Sarawak, East Malaysia with plants in Kuching, Miri and Sibu, which employ 300 people.
Yong Liang continues that the diversity of cultures in the region means an abundance of newspaper titles. The collaboration between the publisher and UBP is focused on delivering daily news by 6 am every day at a lower price than previously possible.
He says, “Our old presses can only manage 12 pages of colour on a 24-page product. With the new Community press installed, we will have the high-performance capacity to look for new work.”
To consolidate that capacity, UBP Printing outlines it is also undergoing wider upgrades in its facilities to mirror the high standards the company expects from the Goss Community press.
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