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Transcontinental Buys Presses

MONTREAL—Transcontinental Group has placed an order for two gapless Heidelberg Mainstream presses. The units will be installed later this year at a new facility being constructed here. The new presses will enable Transcontinental Group to produce La Presse, the largest French language daily newspaper in North America. It has a circulation of 183,000 copies on weekdays, 274,000 on Saturdays and 191,000 on Sundays.