Herts & Essex upgrades its folder

Herts & Essex Printers has bought a Heidelberg Stahlfolder Ti52 to run alongside its raft of Speedmaster presses.

According to the firm’s joint managing director Mick Ollard, the kit will replace a larger 15-year-old machine.

He said: “We bought the old folder because it was a good price, but it was bigger than we needed. Now we want to take a smaller buckle folder, which better fits our B3 size.”

The Ti52 operates at 180m per minute and handles products from 100x150mm to 520x840mm.

The Hertford firm has five Speed­master SM 52 presses, including the UK’s first six-colour unit with expandable transfer cylinders, which can handle stocks 0.6mm thick.