Hannanprint orders Australia’s biggest web press

It is effectively two 48pp Lithomans in stacked configuration, and will be one of only a few presses in the world capable of printing 96pp in one pass. It is only the second on the world to be stacked, and will be the first with manroland’s autoprint technology.

The new press will form part of Hannaprint’s new $90m print site, and will be joined by three manroland webs from the company’s present Alexandria facility; two 48pp Lithomans and a 32pp Rotoman, and is the final signal that Hannanprint will not be moving into gravure printing, as the company first mooted three years ago.

Hannaprint’s new production site in Warwick farm is scheduled to be in operation by mid next year, with the Alexandria site to be closed completely by 2013 and redeveloped.

Gerd Finkbeiner, CEO of the press giant, who spent several years in Australia in the 1990s says, “Warwick Farm is planned to be one of the most advanced print sites in the world, and will be a showpiece for the entire printing industry.”

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