Fast-Track Firms -- Greener Pastures

"We built a brand new, 50,000-square-foot building for the new publications," McDonald notes.

The company also bought a 48-unit Heidelberg (Goss) Mercury press with Omnicom presets, QuadTech controls and Megtec Auto-Web splicers. In addition, it added a 48-unit DGM 430 with GMI color controls and QuadTech motorized registration. In the postpress area, SOP added two GMA inserting machines, as well as new saddlestitchers. In prepress, it added new CTP equipment and a second NELA system for automatic plate punching and bending.