Sivakasi’s biggest print firm, Lovely Offset, has grabbed top honours at PrintWeek India Awards 2016, by winning the Post-Press Company of the Year Award.
Founded in 1961 by C Kadarkarai, a self-made man, he specialised in printing self-designed papers and wedding cards. Today, Lovely boasts of a book factory on 23-acre plot, which seeks to convert low-quality book market into high-quality high-volume. In addition, Lovely’s wedding cards range is very popular in Chennai, Sivakasi, Madur
Established in 1961, Lovely Offset is Sivakasi’s biggest print firm
Lovely Offset is located on a 23-acre plot in Sivakasi
Heidelberg CD-74, the UV press has six printing units with twin coaters in the rear
The SM-102/8 can print both eight-colours and four/four-colours in a single pass
The company had made an investment in a Heidelberg Varimatrix die-cutter and other post-press kit
The Ochsner edge gilding machine is deployed for premium diaries with value additions
The screen printing unit has two kit. One from Sakurai and the other from Seria
On the shop floor is a wide variety of jobs from books that are bound with PUR, to coffee table books with case-making, to eco-friendly textbooks, to all type of diaries which are distributed through 32 franchises around the country
The Paktek GM-550 folder-gluer operates at 400 mtrs/m
The Itoh-Robocut computerised guillotine
The Harris Model M-120 web-offset press has a cut-off of 492mm
The Acoro A5 is a 20-clamp binder with in-line trimmer, which operates at 6000 imp/hr
The Diamant MC 35 binder from Muller Martini is deployed for hardcase book binding
The Acoro A5 binder produces up to 100,000 softcover books a day. It is upgraded with VPN/PUR nozzle system
The Acoro A5 perfect binder + Automatic Gatherer ZTM1571 with 18 station
The die-cutter from Yoco's Nikko range is equipped with online blanking and foil stamping options. The machine can process sheets from 80gsm to 5mm B flute corrugated board. Lovely Offset has increased their productivity and improved turnaround time with Yoco
A few years ago, Lovely had installed a 100KW solar plant in its factory. The top management is seeking to set up a 1MW plant in the near future
With eight showrooms for its cards and stationery range, first-time winner, Lovely, was shortlisted in three categories, picking up Post-Press Company of the Year Award by a slender margin, ahead of Kundli-based Replika Press and Bhiwandi-based Print Plus
Lovely Offset has 32 franchisees which sell only the Lovely brand
Lovely’s wedding cards range is very popular in Chennai, Sivakasi, Madurai, and Coimbatore through its own showrooms
Lovely Offset has grabbed top honours in 2016, by picking up the Post-Press Company of the Year Award
