The Swedish firm will install 67 Speedliner in-line stitching systems on the 24 triple-width MAN Roland Colorman XXL presses that will print The Sun and The Times.
NI's three new and revamped sites at Waltham Cross, Knowsley and Glasgow will have full stitching capacity, as will Johnston Press' sites in Portsmouth and Sheffield, where triple-width Colormans will be installed by 2008.
The massive order, placed through MAN Roland and Tolerans' UK agent WRH Marketing, follows a raft of sales to other UK publishers.
Trinity Mirror has ordered or installed Tolerans kit at its Cardiff, Midlands and Oldham sites and is understood to be planning full stitching capacity when it replaces its Watford presses.
Guardian Newspapers has installed three Speedliners on its Berliner-format presses at Newsfax and Trafford Park Printers, allowing half-Berliner sized sections to be bound.
Harmsworth Quays, Associated Newspapers' flexo site, also runs Speedliners.
Tolerans president Michael Kron said that inline newspaper stitching was "spreading heavily, especially in the UK".
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