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Warners pops onto Technotrans stand to sign barrel ink pumping deal

Monday 07. June 2010 - Two top executives from Warners Midlands, a UK printer specialising in high quality magazine, brochure and catalogue printing stepped onto the technotrans stand in Hall 6 today to confirm an order for a barrel ink pumping system for the Roland 700 HiPrint press that it plans to install at its Bourne plant in July.

Philip Warner, managing director, and Martin Harris, senior production manager, had been steered in the direction of technotrans by its sheetfed inks supplier Stehlin Hostag. The company offers a web and sheetfed printing service to clients and, on the heatset side, it has worked with both silo and ink pumping systems for many years
“With a ten-unit sheetfed press coming in we looked carefully at other long perfector users and realised that most companies seemed to be using barrel ink pumping,” says Mr Harris. “To have manual inking would be cumbersome and this investment will free up our operators to focus on other running and makeready issues”.
The company is especially pleased that Stehlin Hostag is able to offer it a closed loop barrel recycling system, removing used barrels which are then re-filled or recycled so that there is no resource waste.
Peter Benton, managing director of technotrans graphics, the UK arm of this international ancillaries supply business, says: “We are really delighted to welcome Warners to Ipex and to know that they will soon join our list of barrel ink pumping users. Their story again reflects how increasingly efficiency and environmental credentials can work hand in hand. The take up of barrel ink pumping among the leading industrial printers in the UK has been fantastic. Buying ink in bulk is cost-effective, easier for operators and reduces waste through skinning.”