Rapid-fit pipework hot off the press
August 1st 2007

Operating for 24 hours a day, every day of the year, and with a capability to produce 25 million magazines each week, Polestars' publications include the majority of the Saturday and Sunday newspaper colour magazines and many of Britain's largest shopping catalogues. With its presses devouring a five-tonne reel of newsprint in a little as 30 minutes, Polestar's new printworks in Sheffield is reliant on compressed air at practically every stage of its operation - from driving ink into the presses, to powering the machines that bind and polythene bag the finished product.

Legris' Transair rapid-fit pipework has been selected to carry these vital air services throughout the 42,000m2 building.

Three separate Transair ring mains in aluminium are connected to the compressor in stainless steel Transair and run for a length of 3km, 70 feet high in the plant's roof space.The 100 mm ring main drops to a 1.5km sub ring main comprising 63mm Transair pipework at a lower level and then to drops of 25mm Transair taking the supply to point of use.