Timsons
Timsons Ltd is a family-owned company which
UK headquarters. A sales subsidiary in Milan covers southern Europe, and a sales and service operation for the Americas is based in Schaumburg, Illinois.[1]
Timsons Limited has specialised for over 50 years in the niche market of presses to print books. The variability of book sizes, and hence machine specifications, creates a need for flexibility in design and manufacture. Each press is custom built enabling the printer to select the print circumference, web width and folder to meet their own individual requirements and minimise excess trim waste.[2]
The book printing presses typically use a
Bungay-based Book printer Clays used its Timson presses to produce the complete series of Harry Potter adventures including Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which sold more than 2 million in the first 24 hours. With a stable of 15 presses covering A and B format paperbacks as well as Demy and Royal sizes, Clays have Britain's
largest installation of Timson presses.
The new Timson T-Flex series use a
free radical) inks. The Welsh Centre for Printing and Coating at Swansea University purchased the first T-Flex 508 flexo press which was built originally as a ‘testbed’ for the development of the new T-Flex 600. This University use their press as a research
tool.
On 1 July 2006 Timsons celebrated its 110th
Queen’s Award for Enterprise for outstanding achievement in innovation. The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise are the UK's most prestigious awards for business performance and this honour recognises the development and commercial success of the Timson ZMR book press.[3]
The Timsons premises in Kettering comprises a
son-in-law of Ernest Timson) in 2007.[4]
References
- ^ The Timsons Story
- ^ Timsons Inc. Our Presses
- ^ :: The Queen's Award for Enterprise :: Archived 2007-10-24 at the Wayback Machine
- ISBN 0-9528127-0-3