The Imprimerie Pollina located in Luçon in Vendée is on pont?! Despite the difficult economic climate, the publishing company has signed a major order form: a Heidelberg XL 162 8-colour sheetfed offset press with perfecting capability will be installed next March.
The 51 million euro printing plant is already equipped with two 8-colour Heidelberg XL 162 presses. However, this third press of the latest generation is larger than the previous versions. The press, which can print up to 12?000 sheets per hour in duplex, is 31 metres long and weighs 260 tonnes.
"It's close to the technology of rotary presses. It requires more mechanics, and therefore more weight." says Laurent Pollina, who runs the printing works with his two brothers. Its installation is therefore accompanied by large-scale work that has just begun: the floor of the new XL 162 is being reinforced with 34 piles and 60 tonnes of concrete.
But it's worth it chandelle?! "It will allow us to develop our printing capabilities in publishing, because colour books are doing well, especially comic books, children's books, practical books (especially cookbooks), explains the leader. This 162 cm wide press will be able to print, for example, 64 pages in 19x28 format in a single pass. It produces many more full-color pages per hour than an XL 106 press."
With this new printing equipment and the significant investments in finishing recently made The printing plant has just hired 14 people who will be trained internally, bringing the workforce to around 235 employees.
This machine should go into production at the end of April/early May. "We look forward to receiving it and starting impressions?!"
