Britton gets Youngstown, FPS nods

The Vindicator in Youngstown, Ohio, tapped Britton Services Inc. to complete the installation of a reconditioned Goss International Corp. Metroliner press.
BSI will provide engineering services as well as alignment, mechanical, electrical and piping services.
The newspaper two years ago launched the project, which involved replacing its decades’-old letterpress with press units and folders formerly used by the Los Angeles Times, the Daily Breeze in Torrance, Calif., and an overseas publisher.
The Vindicator also converted the presses from shafted to unit-level shaftless drives and trimmed the web width of the units to 48 inches. Currently, The Vindicator is produced on a 55-inch web, with a 23.5-inch cutoff.
The retooled press is configured as one line and will give The Vindicator a 96-page capacity, with 40 pages of color.
The project will be completed later this year, BSI said.
Meantime, BSI will also provide mechanical contractor services associated with the installation of the first Goss International Corp. Flexible Printing System press in the United States.
The Free-Lance Star in Fredericksburg, Va., is equipping the triple-wide FPS press with a commercial gas-fed dryer, allowing the paper to produce both coldset and heatset products.
BSI said the installation will be completed this fall.