German newspaper press maker manroland web is to extend a Uniset 75 single-width press at Jiefangjun Bao Printing Factory in Beijing in its eighth order from the company.

The company has a number of the German maker’s presses, including Polyman and Cromoman presses and several Uniset presses installed since 1986.

A signing ceremony in Beijing only a month after DRUPA confirms the deal to add a extra printing tower will increase production capacity of the Uniset by at least 30 per cent, while printing parameters will also be significantly improved.

The Chinese web press order is the second since the Düsseldorf show and SCMP subsidiary Brilliant Star’s Geoman contract, and the third in Greater China this year. manroland web systems generated orders worth 70 million Euro during DRUPA.

Jiefangjun Bao Printing Factory was founded in 1956 and is now one of the biggest and most important printing companies in China. Beside its own newspapers including ‘Jiefangjun Bao’, ‘Zhongguo Guofangbao’, ‘Zhongguo Minbing’, and Military Correspondent’, the printing plant also prints ‘CCTV Paper’, ‘The Mirror’, ‘People's Armed Police Report’, ‘Beijing Youth Daily’ and more than 100 newspapers for ministries, army and local publications.

A focus on delivering the highest printing quality, its range and style of products, and influence have seen it establish a very good reputation in the Chinese printing industry.

Director Li Kang says the cooperation is the eighth with manroland. “Outstanding printing quality, high level of automation, and flexibility of the manroland printing presses let us benefit tremendously,” he says. “These are the reasons why we choose manroland again.”

Pictured (at the table from left to right): Lu Xiaodong (Win Union), Li Kang, Adam Yuen (manroland Greater China) and (second row) Cao Zengchang (Jiefangjun Bao Printing Factory, third from right) and Wu Guangchao (manroland Greater China, right); (back row, third from right) Wu Xinxin (manroland Greater China)