Harland Simon’s roots go back to 1915 and the Harland Engineering Company.

Over the years we developed and supplied management control systems to a wide variety of industries. In 1980 the company was acquired by institutional and private investors. Soon after this the company entered into the newspaper printing industry, whilst continuing traditional activities in the fields of paper and board making and converting, as well as in other industries such as metals, water control, plastics, rubber, mining etc. By the late 1980’s virtually all national newspaper titles in the UK were using our management and control systems in their respective newspaper production lines.

Today Harland Simon is the industry leader in press control and management systems. A whole range of products is being offered under the PRIMA brand name, including some of the most advanced press control desks and management systems in use for newspaper print production. Nearly all of the UK’s national newspapers use PRIMA technology namely The Daily Mail; The Financial Times; The Express; The Sun; The Guardian; The News of the World and The Independent.

In North America PRIMA is used by such companies as The New York Times; Dow Jones and Company Inc.; Chicago Sun-Times; The Gazette (Montreal) and Toronto Star.

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Harland Simon has developed programming skills and applications knowledge second-to-none.

Companies in industries outside printing are now benefiting from Harland Simon’s long track record in industrial IT. Together with our partners, we are offering best of breed solutions in the areas of supply chain, asset management and enterprise application integration.

With over 40 in-house software developers, we are able to meet the most demanding requirements. We specialize in internet and industry-standard Microsoft based technologies such as .Net, Visual Basic; C++; SQL Server; NT/XP and IIS. Harland Simon is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and has a number of MCP qualified engineers.

Harland Simon’s commitment for the future is to continue to provide industry with the tools required to enhance efficiency, minimise waste, economise resources, maximise product quality and to achieve this in the most user friendly manner.