Goss International

In August, the Church of Scientology opened a massive, 185,000-square-foot in-plant in Commerce, Calif.

WITH CELEBRITY practitioners like Tom Cruise and John Travolta among its members, Scientology has gotten its share of media attention over the years. The growing church, founded by L. Ron Hubbard in 1954, boasts more than 9,000 churches, missions and affiliated groups worldwide.

Any in-plant manager lucky enough to be in Chicago last month for Graph Expo got to witness some significant developments in the world of graphic arts. Dubbed “The Inkjet Graph Expo” by some, the show featured more inkjet technology than most in-plant managers had ever seen in one place.

WHEN ZENYATTA shot from the back of the pack to the lead in the final stretch to claim her 13th straight win in last month's Lady's Secret Stakes, the thousands of fans in the stands at Santa Anita Park, in Arcadia, Calif., weren't the only ones cheering. Underneath the grandstand, with the sound of a Goss Community web press churning away behind them, the crew of Santa Anita's in-plant was crowded around a TV monitor, watching the $300,000, nail-biter of a race unfold.

The Church of Scientology plans to start up a new web offset production facility early next year featuring a Goss Sunday 2000 press, according to a press release from Goss. The organization already has an extensive digital print operation in Los Angeles. The new web press will be used to produce the church's collateral materials and publications.

Along with this, the new in-plant will add a Technique MIS system, with applications including estimating, order management, scheduling, inventory management, real-time shop floor data collection and job costing.

Kansa Technology has installed a Kansa 320 Inserter in Cal Poly’s Graphic Communication Department, providing students with the latest technology in newspaper inserters and related material-handling equipment.

The Kansa inserter supports the university’s Goss International Web Printing Laboratory, which houses a Goss Community four-high publication press. In addition to teaching web publication printing, the Graphic Communication Department runs an experiential student-run and managed printing and publishing operation, University Graphic Systems. This enterprise allows students to produce the Mustang Daily.

In other legal news, manroland and Goss International resolved patent infringement litigation this week involving web offset press sleeve blanket technology. Neither would disclose terms of the agreement, saying only that the resolution was in the best interest of their companies and customers, and allows them to offer their full press portfolios to the worldwide marketplace. The patent litigation was initiated in 2003 and alleged that the manroland ROTOMAN S press infringed three U.S. patents held by Goss International for sleeve blanket technology used in its Sunday web offset press models.

DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY—01/22/08—Four months before the start of drupa 2008, print media trade fair, the exhibitor registration reflects the international market situation and industry developments. Consequently, the leading technology producing nations will be the most strongly represented countries at drupa 2008: Germany (745,100 sq. ft.), Italy (148,200 sq. ft.), the U.S. (142,600 sq. ft.), Switzerland (130,500 sq. ft.), Netherlands (99,100 sq. ft.), Japan (89,200 sq. ft.), the UK (80,000 sq. ft.), Belgium (70,800 sq. ft.) and Spain (68,600 sq. ft.). Exhibit space booked by emerging industrial countries such as China and India has increased considerably: by 300% for China (84,700 sq. ft.) and 60% for

When Goss International Americas installed its SP-2500 saddle stitcher at a Banta facility in Minnesota, it crossed the line, according to Muller Martini. The technology used in that stitcher belongs to Muller Martini, the company contends. So Muller Martini filed a patent suit against both Goss International and Goss International Americas in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota in Minneapolis. It is seeking damages and injunctive relief to halt further infringement of its technology. Muller Martini, along with its sister company, Muller Martini Mailroom Systems, also filed a second suit against the Goss companies in the U.S. District Court for the District

EVERY IN-PLANT strives to be an asset to its parent organization. Spartan Stores’ Graphic Services department takes this even further. The in-plant’s 82 “associates” work tirelessly to give their parent company a strategic advantage over the competition in the wholesale and retail food distribution business. And what is this strategic advantage? Well, versatility for one. The in-plant provides so many services it can meet virtually any demand. It can take a job from design through fulfillment, while offering excellent customer service. Convenience and fast turnaround are other strategic advantages. The 36,000-square-foot in-plant is housed right at the Spartan Stores corporate office in Byron Center,