Manroland India and TOI jointly hosts open house

The open house was attended by more than 100 print firms from across the country and witnessed the live demonstration of the newly launched Cromoman 4-1 double-width coldset web-offset press.

The plant tour took place during the Wan-Ifra India Conference in Pune on 26 and 27 September 2012.

Peter Kuisle, executive vice president, Manroland web systems, Germany, said, “The open house gave us an opportunity to showcase our newest product, Cromoman 4-1 to the Indian market and highlight its superior and efficient features in a live press demonstration. We are delighted by the overwhelming response we received for the product in India and the impressive attendance at the open house. Our technical experts from Germany addressed the queries of various visitors. The open house was a great success for both TOI and Manroland.”

Kuisle added, “The new Cromoman 4-1 at the TOI Pune plant has a radically new floor mounted space saving design and inbuilt power tolerance features making it ideally suited for Indian newspaper pressrooms. With a height of just 5.4metre, the press can fit into existing pressrooms and significantly reduces overall capital expenditure. The press was commissioned in February 2012 and has been successfully meeting the high quality and productivity standards of TOI.”  

The Cromoman 4-1 is a double width, single circumference press with H-type printing units and floor mounted reel stands placed parallel to each other. The press is designed to produce printing speeds of upto 75,000 copies per hour offering various production options such as web width variability and quarter folds. With the compact floor mounted design, the Cromoman can fit into existing buildings thus eliminating the need to construct a special building and reducing infrastructure costs drastically.