Goss International

Commercial printing industry supplier company and personnel news from Printing Impressions’ April 2011 edition.

Valpak, a leading direct marketing company, will be the subject of the keynote address at the Offset & Beyond Conference, set for May 23-25, 2011. The final day will feature a VIP tour of its plant in St. Petersburg, FL.

Imprimerie F.L. Chicoine will establish a new Imprimerie F.L. Web division for the Goss Sunday 2000 system with a 57-inch web width. President François Chicoinesays the Sunday press is the right complement to the company’s sheetfed presses because it can match the print quality and deliver web offset economic advantages.

New publication and newspaper contracts at the printer’s newly opened facility in Jacksonville, FL, led to the Community SSC being pressed into service. “We originally built more time into our schedule for the start-up, but customer demand at the new site exceeded our expectations,” explains Brain Moser, production director.

Binding and finishing news from Printing Impressions’ February 2011 edition, featuring items on Prestige Printing, Brown Printing, Freeport Press and Thomson-Shore.

WASECA, MN—Brown Printing has contracted Ferag to supply and install an EasySert inserting line at its facility in East Greenville, PA. The line will mainly be used for adding up to 12 inserts (postcards, magazines, etc.) to stitched products.

Brown’s East Greenville, PA, facility will mainly use the EasySert inserting line for adding up to 12 inserts (postcards, magazines, etc.) to stitched products. Installation has already begun, with full production scheduled for the first quarter of 2011.

BOLINGBROOK, IL—Goss International has agreed with the works council at its facility in Montataire, France, on a social plan that will reduce the workforce there by approximately 300 people. The plan, to be enacted in 2011, will allow the company to adjust capacity according to market demand and improve the competitiveness of its European operations.

Goss International has agreed with the works council at the facility on a social plan that will reduce the work force there by approximately 300 people. The plan, to be enacted in 2011, will allow the company to adjust capacity according to market demand and improve the competitiveness of its European operations.

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