Wifag is updating control, drive and paster systems on a Berliner-sized OF790 press at Gannett’s Shreveport, Louisiana, print site.

Four new control consoles are to be installed – along with new drives and control electronics – six autopasters modernised and web threading improved in a project set to significantly reduce waste and setup times. New consoles will inclide EAE Print production planning.

The presses were part of a 1991 installation at Ringier in Switzerland, moved and reconfigured by GWS in 2008 and recommissioned in Shreveport two years later. It was only the third Berliner format press in the US market.

The Shreveport plant is one of 43 operated by Gannett Publishing Services and prints The Times, which had a weekday circulation of about 35,000 in 2012, and 50,000 on Sunday.