Since 1885, Goss has designed, built, rebuilt, and supported web offset presses — through six generations of newspaper publishing, three generations of commercial heatset, and two waves of press-room consolidation.
Since 1885, we've believed that selling a press is only the beginning of a customer relationship. That's why the majority of our 5-year operating budget flows into service coverage, parts manufacturing, and engineer training — not into marketing a new platform every two years.
The reason press operators keep coming back isn't just the machine. It's the phone being answered at 2 AM. It's the field engineer who arrives with the right bearing kit. It's the trainer who makes a new hire productive in a week on a 30-year-old press.
— GOSS INTERNATIONAL, OPERATING PHILOSOPHY
Samuel Goss begins designing rotary newspaper presses, focused on improving web-offset geometry for high-speed daily newspaper runs.
Introduced the Comet newspaper press, widely adopted by regional dailies across North America and Europe.
The single-width four-high offset tower that remains the defining community newspaper press platform globally — some originally commissioned units still in daily production.
The Urbanite daily offset press becomes the backbone of mid-market newspaper publishing, renowned for 30+ year service lives.
Launch of the M-600 sixteen-page heatset web press — a long-serving commercial platform for magazine, catalog, and direct-mail work.
Introduction of the Sunday press with keyless inking architecture — a platform still under active rebuild and retrofit support.
As publishing economics shifted, Goss transitioned its focus from new-press sales to rebuild programs, relocation services, and multi-generation press lifecycle support.
Expanded regional spare-parts distribution hubs to maintain a 48-hour critical dispatch window for active installations.
Today, Goss field engineers continue to upgrade press drive packages from DC to AC, migrate control systems to modern PLC standards, and keep community and commercial presses in production for another generation.
The majority of our operating budget funds field engineer headcount, parts manufacturing capacity, and regional dispatch logistics.
Documentation, wiring diagrams, commissioning sheets and retrofit kits preserved and updated — not retired with each leadership change.
Total cost of ownership across 30 years of service life is how our customers and we both evaluate success — not initial capex alone.
Our field engineers, applications specialists, and parts manufacturing team rotate through recurring recertification on Goss-specific press architecture. No press platform we built is orphaned from service support.
DIR., FIELD ENGINEERING
MGR., PARTS LOGISTICS
LEAD, REBUILD PROGRAMS
HEAD, OPERATOR TRAINING
Our engineers visit pressrooms every week that still run presses commissioned before they joined the company. We'd be happy to discuss your press's place in the Goss timeline.