2024-02-21 17:30:27
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Text: Editorial Cuba Noticias 360
The UEB Gráfica Habana began printing provincial newspapers on Monday with modern technology that will reduce expenses, according to the state newspaper Granma.
With the launch of this entity, belonging to the Newspaper Company and known as the Poligráfico of Havana, improvements will be experienced in “distribution times, circulation and a significant reduction in high expenses.” in transportation fuels, which now decrease by 54%,†the note reported.
Until this moment, the production of provincial and national newspapers that were distributed from Camagüey to Pinar del RÃo, including the Isla de la Juventud, were printed in Santa Clara.
As the text expands, the technological reconversion project that was carried out in the company could be executed thanks to the “credit granted” after the visit of Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel to China last year.
After its completion, in addition to the press, other graphic materials will be produced, among which those intended for education on the island stand out.
Regarding the latter, Laura Pupo Almaguer, director of the Newspaper Company, stated that production that includes notebooks, books, magazines, brochures and tabloids is already underway.
“With the specific function of manufacturing notebooks, around 50 tons of paper are saved for one million units,†Pupo commented.
For his part, the director of Investments and Projects of said company, Juan José Valdés Pérez, assured that “this was a necessary process, since the existing machinery from 1986 made spare parts more expensive, and generated waste. of paper that exceeded 12%.”
Regarding the current one, Valdés concluded that paper waste will only reach 3% and the installed machines will print 65,000 copies per hour, “which represents a saving in electrical energy.”