Clients and the industry got a glimpse of Ive Group's $50 million Franklin Web NSW heatset plant this week, one of the largest investments in the Australian industry for some years.

The newly-merged manroland Goss web systems has sold a German-designed Lithoman heatset press to a US printer.

manroland has signed an order for three web presses to Ethiopian printer TBO Printing & Publishing.

A comprehensively-equipped Goss M600 is being installed at French print house Imprimerie Guillaume in Comines.

The 'see-saw' effect of Australia's crowded and limited heatset printing market has seen Ive Group report a 73 per cent increase in revenue, while rival PMP has delivered warned-of lower profits.

Turkish book printer Tuna Matbaacilik will install its first heatset press next year, with the acquisition of a semicommercial manroland Uniset 75 press.

A 96-page Goss Sunday 5000 will replace two 48-page presses at Spanish giant Rotocobrhi in Madrid.

Less than six months after announcing a new location for the facility, Ive Group has its new 80-page heatset pressline and other equipment in production in Sydney's Huntingwood

Emotions ran high when Swiss printer Vogt-Schild Druck celebrated the inauguration of a new Rotoman press in an event attended by 120 guests.

Goss International has sold a third Sunday 2000 press to Master Graphics, a Midwest US-based inserts, direct mail and custom commercial printer.

An order for two new 72-page heatset presses follows EDS' move to new premises in Hungary's Vác.

Views of a video showing production on an LED-UV-equipped commercial web have surprised Baldwin company AMS Spectral UV.

Big heatset products are becoming a way of life for WKS unit Kraft-Schlötels, which is supplementing a second 160-page press with a world-first 120-pager.

manroland has provided more details of the 80-page Lithoman heatset press which will go into IVE Group's new print site in Sydney's Seven Hills.

A 64-page Goss Sunday press has been commissioned at YM Chantry in the UK, giving the group new short-grain capability.

KBA will supply and relocate a used 40-page Compacta press for a customer in St Petersburg, Russia.

Goss service partner Dovak Industrial Services will team with GWS to commission a used Sunday 2000 press in Algeria.

The tsunami of print consolidation which has washed over the Australian heatset segment in just five weeks is as much about personalities as it is about the realities of the business they are in.

A new 16-page heatset press for Blue Star Web in Australia is equipped to change magazine and catalogue editions without stopping.

KBA is relocating a 48-page Compacta 618 heatset press from Portugal to an established customer in the outskirts of napes in Italy.

South Korean business newspaper MBN has shown off its new Goss M-600 press at an open house event in Paju City.

A new partnership between Goss International and Elettra will see Goss become the Italian blanket washing systems maker's exclusive dealer in the Americas.

Dramatic decals emphasise speed and colour for a heatset printer wanting to promote the capability of its new press.

A 96-page Lithoman heatset web for Mohn Media will be the German printer's third and the tenth sold by maker manroland web.

A Goss M-600 running at 30,000 sph is claimed to be the world's first LED-UV installation on a high speed web offset press.