INTRODUCTION
A highly professional independent publishing company,
Mortons Print Ltd has grown from strength to strength. With
a world-wide customer base, Mortons Print Ltd can offer you
the very latest technology to ensure your publication is produced
time after time to the highest quality in printed media.
"Our commitment to excellence
and total customer satisfaction will ensure Mortons continued
expansion as an independent printing and publishing company.
Controlled and profitable growth will be achieved through
the development of people, products and
technology."
Quick Overview
Best Implementation of Computer-to-Plate Technology
The Autologic Award (2000)
• MAN Roland Uniset & Goss Universal Press
• Inserting and Palleting service
• Links with local delivery and mailing house companies
• ISDN and ADSL digital transmission
• Investors in People
Investors in People is the National Standard which sets the level of
good practice for improving an organisation’s performance
through the development of its people.
Mortons were first recognised as an Investor in People organisation
in 1997.
In 2002 we won the Midlands Regional Remploy Award for good
practice in the employment of people with disabilities.
• ISO 9001. Quality Management System (QMS)
Mortons seeks excellence in all that it does and so embraced the challenge of attaining BS5750 (the forerunner to ISO 9001) in 1993. Mortons was proud to be the first UK newspaper printers to gain the standard, and has maintained consistent certification to these standards since.
ISO 9001:2000 is the current International QMS Standard which Mortons is certified to. This sets out the practices an organisation needs to use to ensure it meets customers agreed requirements in relation to products or service.
Unlike the more familiar ‘kite mark’ for quality approval, which relates to the individual product, ISO 9001 relates to the organisation.
• ISO 14001:2004 Environmental Management System (EMS).
Mortons embraces the concept that for any business to be successful it must operate in a sustainable environment. In view of this Mortons took the step of gaining ISO 14001, the international standard for environmental management systems which integrates with its quality management system and is audited by BSI. Mortons was among the first companies to achieve this.
Mortons Environmental Policy Statement
• Ensuring activities are safe for employees, customers, visitors and others who come into contact with our operations.
• Complying with, or exceeding legal requirements.
• Accepting reasonable responsibility for any harm to the environment caused by our activities and taking steps to remedy any damage.
• Monitoring purchasing practices and operations to ensure best use of natural resources and minimum environmental impact.
• Integrating environmental consideration into future business policy decisions.
• Communicating the policy to employees, customers and suppliers.
• Reviewing this policy at least twice a year as part of our Quality System Review process.
• To find out more about the paper we use, which is purchased from certified and sustainable forests,
please take at look at www.upmforestlife.com
A Brief History
1968 Mortons abandoned hot metal and moved to new “cold set”
techniques and became the first newspaper company in Lincolnshire
to print web-offset rather than letterpress. Improved quality
laid basis for contract printing work.
1970 P. Smith appointed Production Director.
1974 First units of conventional web-offset press were
acquired.
1979 Wharf Road premises outgrown and production moved
to new site on Boston Road, Horncastle, providing scope for
expansion.
1989 New print record for Mortons - 860,000 copies
in one week. £3 million turnover achieved. Mortons embarks
on a management programme and training initiative.
1990 First computerised full-page make-up and introduction
of ‘on screen’ advert make-up. The first phase of
Mortons expansion scheme takes place with the completion of
the office block.
1992 Purchase of 11 unit Goss Community press. After enduring recession
period, Morton turnover exceeds £4m and prints over
1 million copies in a week.
1993 P. Smith Production Director becomes
Director (sales). B. S. Leatherland appointed Production Director,
and B. V. Hill, Finance Director. £200,000 spent on
colour
separation equipment. 1.4m copies printed on busiest week.
BS5750 system quality award (first newspaper publishers in
England to achieve this).
1994 Work starts on IIP. Over 1.8m copies on busiest
week.
1995 Decision made to purchase new Goss Universal
semi-commercial press complete with heat-set. £4m expansion
plan approved by board.
1996 Press hall doubled in size to accept new 8-unit
Goss Universal Press, the first of its kind in Europe. Heatset
equipment installed plus trim-stitch
finishing to enable Mortons to enter magazine market.
1997 Mortons commence production on new equipment.
The company also achieved Investors In People standard. P.
Smith appointed non-executive director of Mortons.
1998 Morton’s print 1.3 million copies per week
in January, some 30% more than January 1997.
1999 Phase II of Universal Press. Purchased six ‘Y’
units.
2000 Computer-to-plate installed.
2001 Phase III of Universal Press. 14x4 Tower. Second
Heatset Dryer. Second
computer-to-plate line installed.
2002 Acquired Newark Advertiser’s Harris 45 press
and press hall.
2004 - Mortons Print are producing up to 2.5 million copies a week over both sites. Increasing demand for full colour work leads to Board decision to purchase a press which will produce 96-pages in full colour at one pass.
2005 - An order is placed for a MAN Roland Uniset press capable of this pagination, complete with on-line inserting, trimming and stitching.
2006 - With press installation at Morton Way, this £10m project is completed by the end of March. The Newark press, now over 30 years old, is sold off.
