AZ Medien subsidiary Vogt-Schild Druck will install a new manroland Rotoman DirectDrive 16-page web next year.

The Swiss company signed an order during DRUPA last week, with the press scheduled to go into production in the middle of 2017.

Managing director Rolf Steiner says Vogt-Schild Druck creates industrial products of the highest quality: "Because we have been able to continuously expand our market presence over the last years, we have now decided to make further investments, in order to stay at the top of the Swiss printing house sector.

"We will be able to optimally position ourselves in the highly competitive print market and provide our customers with further benefits and even more quality, with the new highly automated and extremely flexible production system."

The press will comprise five units, equipping it for both fully automated version and signature changes thanks to a DynaChange function, as well as for finishing options such as coating or special colours. Manroland's inline control systems will handle cut-off and ink register and ink density control.

Pictured at the DRUPA contract signing: (from left) Frank Kreisel (manroland regional sales manager), Piet van Gunten (GOC Consulting), Joachim Gutwald (Vogt Schild Druck director of printing), Jörn Gossé (manroland web systems managing director), Rolf Steiner (managing director of Vogt Schild Druck), Alexander Wassermann (manroland managing director), Roger Wolf (Vogt Schild Druck production director) and Josef Aumiller (manroland sales vice president)