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Paarl Coldset wins at Mondi Shanduka Awards
Friday, 21 May 2010Paarl Coldset is proud to be the printers of high quality, award winning newspapers. At this year’s Mondi Shanduka Awards, which was held on 5 May, 2010 at Soccer City in Johannesburg, Die Burger, Volksblad and Naweek Beeld, came out as clear winners.
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Paarl Media Expands into Coldset
Monday, 30 June 2008As part of its program to enhance the core printing facilities available to clients, the Paarl Media Group is pleased to announce the acquisition of Print24 and Paarl Post (Pty) Ltd. Both businesses will be housed as a collective grouping under the name of “Paarl Coldset”.
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Paarl Coldset News

Advanced technology
Did You Know?
- Paarl Coldset has been the dominant player over the past decade in the quality category of the Mondi Shanduka Newspaper Awards, winning all three quality categories at the 2010 Awards function.
- Height of largest press is 16 metres, approximately 5 storeys high.
- 800 tabloid pages printed simultaneously.
- 1 000 000 copies printed per hour.
- Longest press is 54,5 metres.
Johannesburg
Press
Geoman: 8 Towers, 3 Folders
Uniset, 9 Towers, 2 Folders
Cromoman, 2 Towers, 1 Folder
Capacity
64 B/S, 70 000 cph, 36 B/S, 75 000 cph, 8 B/S, 50 000 cph, 100 000 tons
Dispatch
2 Newsliners, 4 hoppers each, 35 000 cph 4 SLS 3000, 3 with 4 and 1 with 8 hoppers, 32 000 cph
Pre-press
3 Agfa Polaris CTP lines, 540 plate per hour 2 Nela Plate Benders Arkitex / Sublima Workflow
Cape Town
Press
Geoman 4 Towers, 2 Folders
Uniset 4 Towers, 2 Folders
Cromoman 1 Tower
Capacity
32 B/S, 70 000 cph, 16 B/S, 75 000 cph, 4 B/S, 45 000 cph, 50 000 tons
Dispatch
2 Ferag inserting, UTR + MSD, 6 and 7 hoppers, 32 000 + 37 000 cph
Pre-press
2 Krause LS Jet CTP lines, 480 plate per hour Arkitex / Sublima Workflow
Port Elizabeth
Press
Uniset 3 Towers, 1 Folder
Cromoman 2 Towers, 1 Folder
Capacity
12 B/S, 60 000 cph, 8 B/S, 50 000 cph, 15 000 tons
Dispatch
1 Müller Martini SLS300, 32 000 cph, 6 hoppers
Pre-press
2 Krause CTP lines, 120 plate per hour, Arkitex / Sublima, Workflow
Bloemfontein
Press
Goss Urbanite
8 units, 2 Folders
Capacity
16 B/S, 40 000 cph, 10 000 tons
Dispatch
1 Ferag Easysert inserting, 6 hoppers, 25 000 cph
Pre-press
2 ECRM CTP lines, 80 plate per hour, Arkitex / Sublima, Workflow




