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MHI-PPM Receives Order for Two "DIAMONDSPIRIT" Newspaper Offset Presses from The Nishinippon Shimbun Co., Ltd.
Tokyo, May 14, 2015 - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Printing & Packaging Machinery, Ltd. (MHI-PPM), a group company of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) based in Mihara in Hiroshima Prefecture, has received an order for two Mitsubishi 4x1 "DIAMONDSPIRIT" newspaper offset presses from The Nishinippon Shimbun Co., Ltd., a newspaper company based in the city of Fukuoka in southwestern Japan. The two presses on order will replace presses originally delivered by MHI in 1995. The new offset presses are scheduled to go into operation in spring 2016.
The history of The Nishinippon Shimbun Co., Ltd. dates back to 1877, the year that Tsukushi Shimbun was founded. The name of the founding publication was eventually changed to the Fukuoka Nichinichi Shimbun and in 1942 it merged with Kyushu Nippo to create The Nishinippon Shimbun. Today The Nishinippon Shimbun Co., Ltd. is the widest read newspaper on Japan's third largest island of Kyushu with a daily circulation of more than 800,000 copies.
The Nishinippon Shimbun Co., Ltd. placed the order of five newspaper offset presses from MHI in 1995. Out of these five presses, two presses were replaced with the DIAMONDSPIRIT as Phase I of a major upgrade initiative, which went into operation in 2013 and 2014 respectively. The Nishinippon Shimbun Co., Ltd. has opted the Mitsubishi DIAMONDSPIRIT presses for Phase II after in-depth comparison with other manufacturers' press models including the manufacture of the existing presses. The company gave the DIAMONDSPIRIT press high marks for its high productivity, reduction in operating cost, and its solid track record of more than 30 press installations with proven operations. The company also became convinced with MHI-PPM's after-sales service network throughout Kyushu from its regional office in Fukuoka.
With this latest order, MHI-PPM further focuses on solution-providing marketing for not only the newspaper presses but also other equipment for newspaper production to expand in both the domestic and the global markets by responding to diversified customer needs for newspaper production.
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