Best Practice Club Visit, Newsprinters Broxbourne - 25 February 2010

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ABOUT BROXBOURNE

Now in its 3rd year of production Broxbourne is churning out an incredible 22 million newspapers each week for News International
and The Telegraph Media Group. There is room for more. During the course of this short time, the team has worked hard on
optimising production and is making significant progress to achieve its goals of being recognised as being world class improvements in quality, efficiency, reliability and waste reduction have been significant but they are refusing to rest on their laurels.
Being world class is about sustaining improvements and never standing still. With a high level of automation, the numbers employed have also been optimised but nevertheless, they recognise that its staff engagement that will bring results.
The plant design is simple and the speed of production is staggering. These 12 presses really do run at their maximum speed
of 86,000copies per hour every night and the entire process has been designed with a high level of built in equipment redundancy.
With this reliance on performance, you will witness presses that have been maintained and cleaned to a level where they are better
than the day they were installed.

Newspapers run from press directly to the mailroom via a specially developed Ferag TTR conveyor where they are stacked and
strapped and despatched through 36 dock levellers at the rate of one pallet every 2.5minutes.
With new direct to retail initiatives in place 230 vehicles leave the site every night to deliver to retailers and wholesalers.'
This is delivering a world class service for world class journalism.