Welbound re-affirms faith in PrintWeek India Awards

Post-press and book specialist, Welbound Worldwide has confirmed their commitment to the PrintWeek India Awards 2017 for the categories – Book Printer of the Year (Academic & Trade) and Book Printer of the Year (Speciality)​

07 Jul 2017 | By Priya Raju

P Sajith, director, said, "India is the largest producer and consumer of books in the world today and we have played a large part, along with our partners and customers to help make books affordable - so that knowledge is accessible by all. At Welbound we are happy to be part of the movement that has ensured this with our perfect binding machines. Year on year, we bring in innovations that help our customers produce better books, in shorter time."

Sajith added, going beyond the machines our unique service proposition help our customers keep the machine downtime and operational costs to a minimum by proactively auditing the machines and processes from time to time. "These services are available to all our customers free of charges"

Sajith said, "We are delighted to be associated with PrintWeek India Awards for awarding firms in the category of Book Printer of the Year (Academic & Trade) and Book Printer of the Year (Specialty). The PrintWeek India team have an in-depth and highly professional process of judging and shortlisting the entries."

 


Jury scrutinising the Award entries during the jury week 2016

Welbound is a leading supplier of machines, adhesives and services to the bookbinding industry in India. The Kerala-based manufacturer showcased a medium-speed adhesive binder that employs all the technologies in gluing – water-based, hotmelts and PUR during PrintPack 2017. Their inline perfect binder with signature gatherer - Velocity 5000 has been drawing a lot of interest recently

Sajith concluded, "Since my early days as a child in Kerala I loved to read.  I loved books.  Words of the great masters helped me understand why playwrights and poets wrote or people like us quoted it. Of course the books I read were few, but because they were few I read and re-read them. That’s how I remember paragraphs by heart in a MT Vasudevan Nair or a Vaikom Mohammed Basheer novel or a quotation in Marquez or Kafka. The books I read were history and fiction and more recently crime thrillers like Henning Mankell and Andrea Camillieri – plus what they call magical realism. Basically, all I could get.  I read everything I could find. Nothing gives me greater joy than to be among books. That’s why my business and my pleasure is the same thing."