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Provincial fights the recession with more efficient technology
Monday 23. February 2009 - Provincial Printing anticipates an increase in automation and production efficiency of 30-40% when it replaces one of its two Speedmaster SM 74-4s with an XL 75-4+LX this spring.
“We will get to colour a lot more quickly and it will reduce waste as well,” says Provincials managing director Ian Fitzgerald.
Mr Fitzgerald and his fellow director and wife Sue visited Drupa last year mindful that by 2010 the Cardiff company would need at least one new press. He believes that now is a good time to buy.
“The market is competitive at the moment and thats another good reason to look at being more efficient,” he says.
Before the press is delivered, probably at the end of April, the company is redesigning its offices into a double deck configuration, leaving it additional production space for the new press with its coater and extended delivery.
The new press will give the company the chance to handle carton and point of sale work on heavier board stocks when required. Currently its work is general commercial contracts, some local and some from all parts of Wales and the UK.
Provincial Printing was set up my Mr Fitzgeralds parents in 1954 so that whilst he toyed with the idea of a naval career his work path was destined to be printing. He joined the company from school.