APN News & Media has commissioned a new web print site in remote Warwick, reviving web-offset production at the location.

The reorganisation follows the closure of APN's Toowoomba print site earlier this year, and makes use of an Indian-made Manugraph Cityline press mothballed when the Ballina site closed in 2013.

Less than ten years after it commissioned new presses at Bundaberg, Ballina, Rockhampton, Toowoomba and Yandina, the regional publisher now anchors production on just three sites. Presses at Warwick, Rockhampton and Yandina - which has a hybrid manroland press configured for coldset and heatset - print the group's Australian portfolio of 19 regional titles. Until recently, Yandina had been printing five daily newspapers, the (Grafton) Daily Examiner, (Lismore) Northern Star, Gympie Times, Fraser Coast Chronicle and Sunshine Coast Daily.

The Warwick print site - where an elderly Harris Cottrell V15 was shut down almost a decade ago - had continued with sheetfed production, producing covers and other work for group sites. Now it is back in web-offset production with one of the presses installed during a comprehensive programme of 2006/7 which addressed out-of-date plant at the sites acquired with the 1988 formation of APN.

The 35,000 cph press prints up to 48 tabloid pages in four colour with four-page increments and includes a quarterfold option.