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Wednesday 24. June 2009 - Excellent project management gets installation done in record time
Quite remarkable: Sachsendruck in Plauen, Germany, ordered a ROLAND 900 and it was delivered four weeks later. Since that time it was running in three-shift operation at the biggest quality printer in Saxony.
Highly professional cooperation and organization made it possible: one month after the order was placed, manroland delivered the five-color ROLAND 900 in format 6 with a coating module right on time in mid-April. Two weeks later, on 1 May, the large-format press at Sachsendruck in Plauen was in full three-shift production, printing long runs of supplements, envelopes, and other commercial jobs. The decision in favour of the ROLAND 900 was mainly due to its performance capabilities, especially with lightweight paper. The major proportion of jobs are printed on 60 to 80 gsm papers in non-stop operation. In the third quarter of this year the five-color ROLAND 900 will be joined by more presses.
Sachsendrucks Managing Director Andreas Mößner is following a clear strategy for boosting efficiency: “With the new presses we are able to produce our long-run jobs faster and more efficiently.” True indeed: after only a few weeks the new press has already printed more than four million sheets. Mößner adds: “We are very impressed by the performance of the press and manroland. In particular the fast start-up and high reliability of the press in the first weeks after it was commissioned exceeded our expectations. The whole project was accomplished quickly and very professionally. We are pleased to have found such a reliable partner.” Since January 2009, Mößner, who was earlier an executive board member at one of manrolands competitors, has been Managing Director of Sachsendruck and a partner in the company which belongs to Treuleben & Bischof. Sachsendruck is a long-established company specializing in childrens books, non-fiction books, magazines, catalogs, advertising media and envelopes, and with around 200 employees had sales of Euro 37 million in 2008. “The challenge we are faced with in these times is that customer expectations regarding flexibility and costs are rapidly increasing. We have to keep on improving in order to meet these expectations and keep our business successful,” explains Mößner.