Newspaper & Mailroom
Telegraph titles move to Liverpool
Tuesday 05. August 2008 - Newsprinters Knowsley site awarded contract
Newsprinters, the newspaper manufacturing subsidiary of News International, today announces that its Knowsley site has successfully started printing Telegraph Media Groups The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph.
Knowsleys presses started printing The Daily Telegraph on 4 August. Monday to Friday print runs will be printed on one of Newsprinters Knowsleys five manroland triple width presses. Weekend editions of The Daily Telegraph, and also The Sunday Telegraph, are expected to start printing for issue dated 9 August.
Newsprinters Knowsley also prints News Internationals own titles and 100,000 copies of The Southport, Skelmesdale, Formby, West Lancashire and Maghull regional weekly titles for the Champion Media Group.
Brian McGee, managing director of Newsprinters, says: “Newsprinters Knowsley is a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility with leading edge equipment. The team at Knowsley takes great pride in the products they print and there is an excellent atmosphere at the site. The fact that another national newspaper has chosen Newsprinters to print its titles is further testament of the high quality print coming out of Liverpool.”
Based near Liverpool, Newsprinters Knowsley plant is one of three sites that has recently undergone £650 million worth of investment. Newsprinters Knowsley has one line of five manroland Colorman XXL presses, with five units per press and five 4:7:7 folders enabling 120 pages of full colour tabloid or broadsheet equivalent pages to be printed straight at 86,000 copies per hour.