State-of-the-art newspaper printshop with nora® rubber floorings
Perfectly planned proximity on a firm footing

The new printing center of the Kieler Nachrichten newspaper in Moorsee has been planned with particular attention to optimized work flows with minimized distances. The heart of the new building - the 22-meter-high production hall with its gigantic rotary presses - is embedded between the newsprint store and a dispatch room with three processing and nine packaging lines. Functionality was the watchword for fitting out the 50-million-euro investment, and this applies to the floorings from Freudenberg Bausysteme KG as well.

Functionality is married to esthetic appeal by the norament® rubber flooring in the reception room. The slate-look flooring blends in perfectly with an ambiance of modernity and industrial functionalism. The elegance of the light-flooded room is upgraded still further by wooden paneling with stainless steel enhancements. Ancient presses recall the beginnings of industrial-scale newspaper printing, and a glass wall provides a view of today's up-to-the-future technology: computer-controlled printing presses several meters high.

They're controlled from a room which resembles a ship's bridge: extending over the entire length of the printing hall is a mezzanine which is more than a connecting corridor. It's from here that the firm's staff control the printing presses and monitor the entire production process. Here, too, there's a rubber flooring from the world's market leader for rubber floorcoverings, Freudenberg Bausysteme.

The blue norament® 928 al grano flooring, with discreet scatterings of light and dark gray and a grain-look hammerblow surface, blends in perfectly with the printing center's contemporary design, featuring generous use of stainless steel elements. The blue corridors extend through the building like life-giving arteries.

With a production sequence designed for minimized distances, production, warehouse and administration are directly next to each other. So it's inevitable that the substances used in the printshop are going to come into contact with the floor. For the facility in Kiel, then, it was particularly relevant that norament® 928 al grano is resistant to oils and greases, and the printshop's expendables can be removed without any difficulty.

Another plus: the Freudenberg flooring used is electrostatically dissipative. "In the control center, particularly, that's very important", emphasizes the site engineer Dipl. Bauingenieur Udo Schrader of Messrs. KSW, who have specialized nationwide in planning and building printshops.

"The norament® floorings, by the way, passed the first loading test with flying colors during the construction phase", recalls Frank Pöhls, General Manager of Teppich Thomsen, the Kiel-based floor and interior decorating specialists who were responsible for most of the floor design in the new printing center - not only in terms of resistance to oils and greases, but also in regard to wear-resistance.

One advantage for the hectic world of newspaper production is that the rubber floorings from Freudenberg are anti-slip. Additional safety for staff and machines is assured by the superlative fire-resistant properties. "This was one of the reasons, too, why we also laid norament® grano in the staff lounges", explains the installation expert Pöhls, who also praised the smooth installation and responsive service provided by Freudenberg Bausysteme.

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