BROXBOURNE

 

"As the largest single investment worldwide in a printing plant, our aim is to be recognised as being world class. World class can mean different things to different people. To us it embodies great customer service, consistent high quality and predictable reliable performance.

 

Without doubt we have cutting edge technology but it is our people that will drive our business and deliver this vision. With passion and commitment in adundance. " 

                                   Steve Whitehead - Operations Director 

 

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It is a short two years from vacant land to the production of the first newspapers at the plant.

 

The site layout allows newsprint lorries to move in a uniform way around the site, exiting on the same road as they entered. At the same time, it enables Newsprinters to keep the noisier loading activities away from the closest residential area.

 

In fact, the company has even gone to the extent of building an internal 'tunnel' road on the east side of the building to give more protection to the local  residents in terms of noise and light pollution.

 

Such is the speed of the presses, at 86,000 copies an hour, that a pallet of newspapers can be delivered to a  collection point roughly every 2.5 minutes.

 
It is a linear manufacturing process.The copy comes off the press and goes via Ferag UTR conveyor lines into in-line MultiStackers and strappers, each line having three of each.

 

Having been stacked and strapped, the copies are discharged into spiral conveyors which take them down a level to the palletising and distribution area.

 

Apart from taking the plates to the presses, one of the other few areas where there is human intervention involved in the production process, is the transfer of the copies from the palletisers to the loading bays which are carried out by electric pallet trucks.

 

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