The first StreamFold goes to Lehtisepät OY

At IFRA Expo 2009, Lehtisepät OY in Kuopio (Finland) placed an order for one StreamFold. The quarterfold line will be up and running from January 2010 for the production of the company’s own freesheets, plus other titles. In addition, Lehtisepät OY is creating a good start point for the acquisition of outside jobs.

In an initial phase, StreamFold will be operating offline with manual infeed through the JetFeeder hopper. Connection of the quarterfold machine to the existing Ferag system for online production is planned for the middle of the year.

Lehtisepät OY is a company owned by Finnish Media Group Keskisuomalainen OYJ. Other companies in the group include Savon Sanomat OY, publisher of the daily newspaper of the same name with approximately 65,000 copies. Apart from the Kuopio facility, Lehtisepät OY also produces in Pieksämäki and Jyväskylä.

StreamFold is the latest innovation from Ferag. After presentation of the new solution in September to a small circle of the world’s trade journalists, the line was celebrating its global launch at the Vienna show in front of a broad section of industry specialists.