Goss Community fan United Borneo Press has ordered two more presses totalling nine towers for its Kuching and Kota Kinabalu sites.

The order for 36 single-width press units is the fourth in as many years for the Malaysian newspaper printer. UBP Printing will install the four and five-tower presses – each with an N40 folder – this summer, bringing the company’s total to 84 Community SSC 84 units in four lines.

Managing director Sim Yong Liang says customers “want the most” in terms of cost efficiency: “We've returned to what works well for us," he says.

UBP Printing is part of Unity Media Malaysia and now employs more than 150 people across four sites throughout eastern Malaysia. Four Malaysian, two Chinese and two English-language dailies make up the majority of the production workload.

Sim Yong Liang says UBP achieves better cost structures by striving and repeatedly investing to maintain a programme of continuous process improvement: “Keeping up with the latest in product development is essential for us to stay at the forefront of our market and retain our competitive edge," he says.

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