Hinting at an imminent announcement of what he called SunPak, Goss vice president of sales for the Asia Pacific Timothy Mercy said the new division had already undertaken its initial project, a contract to print playing cards for a Las Vegas consortium. Overall, he said the industry can expect Goss carton manufacturing equipment which will cut conventional make-ready times from the current 2-3 hours to a matter of minutes.

  
This and more is part of the overall Goss vision of reorienting its business model to cope with present global industry and economic conditions.

“The industry is undergoing fundamental changes and we need to be one step ahead of them”, Mercy said.

Spearheading this drive is the company’s revolutionary Sunday technology, an example of which is the recently introduced 2860mm-wide 96-page Sunday 5000 web offset press, which Mercy claims is cutting into the gravure market because gravure cannot match the efficiency of web offset.

Examples he cited of recent Australian installations included the current installation at Offset Alpine of a Sunday 4000 48-page press sold some months ago to upgrade the prominent Sydney shop’s magazine and catalogue capacity.

While the web offset industry is currently is “on hold”, Mercy confidently foreshadowed the restart of many pending projects in 2010.  

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