First full print run of The Times made at new €26m facility

Pule' Carmel

Oct 21st 2010, 03:46

Please, Please, that, what is shown in this video should not, never, be described as just a "E26m facility!" but more like," A work of briilliant, modern, dynamic, engineeering art, costing 26 million euros in which so many great unnamed artists are involved"
Congratulations to all those who took part in such a venture. Please open it to thepublic, all schools, to show all teachers and students that beautiful and complex creativity also exists in all industries, in additions to conventional arts and acting, on a stage!
Are not the synchronisation and timings of all those movements just as harmonious and beautiful as any of the greatest music played in a renouned theatre?
Every industry, continuously plays its harmonious music , its own sonatas, with special instruments and hidden conductors, who formed the rythmn in the shapes and logic of the materials, as any material used in instruments played by any orchestra.
How lucky are the employees of such modern industries, to see such repeated performances of such wonders. To me it is the same as music lovers going to the theatre to see a repeated performance of Carmen ta Bizet or La Traviata, only they do it less often!

Giancarlo Refalo

Oct 20th 2010, 19:05

Somebody should advise the guy who's stacking the bundles of newspaper at the end of the video to watch his back... Just a matter of squatting as opposed to bending over. Watch your back mate!

Other than that brilliant :) Good video as well. These mass production machines always fascinated me.

Looking forward to holding copy in my hands when I'm next on the island.

Margaret Buhagiar

Oct 20th 2010, 16:19

State of the art simply wonderful welldone!!!!!

T Mifsud

Oct 20th 2010, 16:02

Congratulations to all at The Times! Well done!

c. camilleri

Oct 20th 2010, 15:46

From the ashes of 1979 to its present glory. Congratulations.

P. Montebello

Oct 20th 2010, 13:47

I hope that the back side of the building in St Ursula Street, can be changed into at least a 4 story car park.

Meanwhile, I also look forward to have the edges of the paper trimmed together since we have had the front half of the paper (sideways) always bigger (longer) than the back half by around 5 to 8 mm.

William Zammit

Oct 20th 2010, 13:02

With reference to the comments on the setting up of a museum of printing in the old Times premises, the Kunsill Nazzjonali tal-Ktieb had set up a committee which I chaired and which subsequently presented a draft plan for the setting up of a museum of printing for Malta. Many individuals and organizations expressed their readiness to contribute printing-related artefacts for such a museum. It is a recurrent loss to our country that old, sometimes highly scarce printing equipment is ending up scrapped or otherwise destroyed. At this point the Kunsill Nazzjonali tal-Ktieb is lobbying for the setting up of a state museum of printing. That said, it would be willing to help any other initiative to have this aspect of our cultural heritage preserved and made available to the public.

ALFRED J BONELLO

Oct 20th 2010, 12:20

I have been a keen reader of the Times since when I do not remember.... (am 60+ now).
It has always enchanted me and it is only natural that with this new set-up it will definitely continue to do so.
Congratulations --
All of Malta owes you a BIG THANK YOU.

lgalea

Oct 20th 2010, 11:59

Congratulations

Jesmond Micallef

Oct 20th 2010, 11:33

A very impressive outfit indeed. I cangratulate Progress Press and Allied Newspapers Ltd on this new large scale undertaking. May it reap further benefits to local printed media industry but also to set foot on the international publishing front. All the best to you all.

On a side note, the international news agency Reuters was founded in Aachen and there is also a newspaper museum there. Maybe, when oneday Malta gets its own industrial museum, Progress Press can donate some of its older former printing equipement, too. (just a humble suggestion, if I may). Museums are a testimony to progress and surely Progress Press deserves its well earned merits in this regard.

Evarist Saliba

Oct 20th 2010, 10:41

Congratulations on this progress on the technical side.
Keep it up to match the contents of the paper.

Joseph M. Meli

Oct 20th 2010, 10:36

C O N G R A T S !!

mpace2

Oct 20th 2010, 09:49

Good luck for the future- Very well done

ray pace

Oct 20th 2010, 08:19

Congratulations on the colour print quality but the folding leaves much to be desired....my copy has a couple of inner pages creased and badly folded. Margins are irregular too.

John Carmel Navarro

Oct 20th 2010, 08:12

Congratulations to the Times of Malta as whilst celebrating its seventy five years still managed to keep developing and moving to the aptly named ‘Progress Press’ Of course some sadness moving away from the Valletta building which became a land mark for Maltese Journalism.

Joseph M Muscat

Oct 20th 2010, 08:08

Allow me to join you in this great occasion, being an ex employee of the Progress Press and having been a Printing Teacher to some of its present Printing personnel, I congratulate you all for this wonderful achievement in reaching this milestone in your Printing Business.
Progress Press was and has been always in the forefront in the progress of Printing Technology and once again it has shown great leadership in introducing state of the art Printing Technology. A big well done to all at The Progress Press keep on walking tall. Prosit

victor baldacchino

Oct 20th 2010, 08:04

@ victor rodenas.
I agree with you and in it we one can find the replica of the Burning Building of the Times.

Carmel Garcia

Oct 20th 2010, 07:21

Well done for The Times.

victor rodenas

Oct 20th 2010, 06:55

Part of the building at Valletta should be turned into a printing museum.

L Camilleri

Oct 20th 2010, 06:53

Congratulations to management and all workers involved. Well done.