Muller Martini Marketing AG
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16.10.2014
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Muller Martini Marketing AG
Untere Brühlstrasse 13, 4800 Zofingen, Switzerland
Tel. +41 (0)62 745 45 75, Fax +41 (0)62 751 55 50
info@mullermartini.com, www.mullermartini.com
Media Group Münchner Merkur tz Invests in New Mailroom
Inserting, Stitching and Trimming Inline
The Münchner Merkur tz media group is investing in its second complete
newspaper mailroom system from Muller Martini within a short period of
time. Following its new printing plant in Penzberg, the group’s main plant
on Dessauerstrasse in Munich is next in line to be equipped with a
ProLiner inserting system featuring a CoLiner pre-gatherer. The ProStitch
stitching unit, which is integrated into the ProLiner, together with the
NewsTrim fanflex trimmer, enables inserting, stitching and trimming to be
performed inline.
In addition to various daily newspapers, including the flagship Münchner Merkur, the
Münchner Merkur media Group also prints several weekly newspaper at its main plant in
Dessauerstrasse in Munich, including the Bayerisches Landwirtschaftliches Wochenblatt.
The traditional agricultural weekly is produced in a print run of around 110,000 copies in a
wire-stitched tabloid format and regularly contains inserts. The Bayerisches
Landwirtschaftliches Wochenblatt is currently produced using a relatively old saddle stitcher
300 with a Biliner inserting system from Muller Martini. The new solution will make the
production of the Münchner Merkur media group far more cost-effective.
The group opted for a new ProLiner inserting system with an integrated ProStitch stitching
unit and a NewsTrim fanflex trimmer, to which the finished products are conveyed directly
from the ProLiner. That means the agricultural weekly can be produced in a single production
process, which, according to Managing Director Uwe Günther, was one of the main reasons
that the Münchner Merkur media group chose this solution. Muller Martini is the only supplier
of mailroom systems that enable inserting, stitching and trimming to be performed inline in a
single pass.
NewsLiner Extension
In addition to the new ProLiner inserting system with three automatic preprinted section
feeders, five feeders, coupled with a CoLiner pre-gatherer with four feeders and stream
feeders for automatic insert feeding, three NewsStack compensating stackers with TABA F
top sheet applicator, the Mailroom Production Control (MPC) addressing, ramp and control
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system with Connex.Info from Connex.Mailroom and MMRemote Online (enabling remote
access for diagnosis and corrective action), the Munich-based newspaper publisher has also
decided to extend its existing NewsLiner inserting system from Muller Martini. A CoLiner with
eight feeders will be docked on. The existing compensating stackers will be fitted with TABA
F and a control system update for connection to MPC, and the NewsLiner will also be
controllable from the Muller Martini factory in future by means of MMRemote Online.
Second Major Investment
The new systems will begin production in the second quarter of 2015. The Münchner Merkur
tz media group, which is based in the Bavarian capital of Munich, is investing in its second
newspaper mailroom system from Muller Martini within a short period of time. “We believe in
the future of printed newspapers,” says Günther. The media group likewise chose a complete
system from Muller Martini for its new printing center in Penzberg with two ProLiner
newspaper inserting lines, each coupled with a CoLiner pre-gathering unit, and each with
three NewsStack compensating stackers with TABA F, a NewsSorter ramp system and the
MPC control system.
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The ProStitch stitching unit, which is integrated into the ProLiner inserting system, together
with the NewsTrim fanflex trimmer (pictured), enables inserting, stitching and trimming to be
performed inline.
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