Goss International

RESTON, VA—The PRINT 13 Must See ’Ems winners have been announced. The 49 winning technologies were selected from a record number of entries submitted by a record number of individual companies.

At PRINT 13, Goss will feature some if its leading technology for commercial, packaging and newspaper production, including the Magnum Compact and the Sunday Vpak presses.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has signed an agreement for a new printing press with Goss International Americas. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announced in March it was buying new printing press equipment and exploring new locations for its production and news-gathering operations.

The company has not yet announced where the new press will be located, or whether it will be housed in the same location as the news operations.

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CONCORD, NH—The former bank executive involved in the fraud case that took down an ex-international trade finance manager for Goss International has been found guilty of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, The Enterprise reported.

James Bender, 48, a former senior vice president of trade finance for Sovereign Bank, was accused of conspiring to defraud several Latin American customers of Goss International Americas, a Durham, NH, manufacturer of commercial printing presses.

The U.S. attorney's office says Bender arranged for the bank to purchase loans extended to customers and formed shell companies to defraud businesses. The customers were sent fraudulent invoices charging them for loan underwriting services that weren't rendered.

Paul Wilson, a former Goss manager, pleaded guilty last year to three counts of wire fraud and was sentenced to a year in prison.

Even after 20 years, Goss Sunday presses continue to deliver sharp web offset productivity, print quality and efficiency, with printers in 27 countries relying on them for publications, catalogs direct marketing, retail inserts, packaging and other specialized products.

DURHAM, NH—Rick Nichols, president and CEO of Goss International, announced a reorganization of the company earlier this week. Goss will focus on continuing to serve existing customers and growing market share in the company’s core markets, while expanding into new, neighboring product markets where it has a technological competitive advantage.

Retail insert printing specialist Creps United in Indiana, PA, suffered a devastating fire last October. Executives from the company and local officials broke ground in early March for a 100,000-square-foot facility that will house three new Goss Sunday web presses.

INDIANA, PA—Retail insert printing specialist Creps United will add three new Goss Sunday web press systems later this year as it rebuilds and modernizes its production facility here following a devastating fire in October of 2012.