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Article: Rupert Murdoch's News International opens world's largest printing plant for UK papers
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- March 17, 2008
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A printing plant being billed as the world's largest is now in operation cranking out newspapers for Rupert Murdoch's News International _ a vote of confidence in Britain's troubled newspaper industry.
The plant in Broxbourne, 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of London, will be used to print the company's four British papers, including two racy tabloids, the Sun and the News of the World, and the more sober-minded Times and Sunday Times.
The new plant is already in use and should be fully operational by the end of next month. It represents the final phase in a 650-million-pound (US$1.3 billion, euro850 million) investment in three state-of-the-art printing plants. It houses ...