22 installations that made headlines in August and September

Kerala newspaper behemoth Mathrubhumi has invested in two new Muller Martini stitching lines, the new generation of Muller Martini Primera MC, which was launched at Drupa. That means, post-Drupa, Matrubhumi's Kozhikode plant will be the first to benefit from the manufacturer’s ‘Finishing 4.0’ automation and connectivity technology, boosting the factory’s magazine production in terms of being flexible and scalable

Chemco's commissioning a multilayer blown film line from Reifenhauser has signalled its foray into shrink film packaging. This approximately Rs 18.49 crores worth investment is in line with the current packaging trend of using shrink wrapping as an alternative to corrugated shippers

Two Wen Chuan KYE-108DRK automatic film lamination machines are set to ramp up the post-press facility of Mumbai-based Parksons Packaging upcoming plant in South India's Sri City. Hyderabad-based Techno Graphics Services (TGS), which represents Wen Chyuan in India, facilitated the deal. (r) Muralidhar Nalli, director, TGS, said, “The lamination machines will be modified to suit Parksons’ size requirements"

Tamil Nadu-based Subam Printers has invested in a brand new Heidelberg Speedmaster SM74 four-colour press

SRK Creative’s offset business, Shine Image, brought in a brand new Komori Lithrone A37, a four-colour plus coater. This is two years after it installed its first refurbished Komori 528 five-colour plus coater

Mumbai-based Parksons Packaging has signed a deal with Komori for purchase of the company’s flagship press - GX 40 - seven-colour plus coater. The features-packed, 18,000sph press, which will be installed at Parkson's Rudrapur plant, is expected to raise the company's bar on productivity and high precision quality control inspection system inline

Polykam Offset has installed a Komori Enthrone 29 four-colour printing press. (l) Jasvir Singh, proprietor, Polykam Offset, said, “As customers today do not want to wait for delivery of their jobs, the Enthrone has proved to be an ideal machine for us. It is capable enough to meet our fast delivery demands"

Impressed with the Enthrone 29’s performance at PrintPack India held at Greater Noida last year, Manjit Singh, the owner of Aakar made up his mind to invest in the machine. He also checked the machine at work in other sites. Running at its maximum speed of 13,000 impressions per hour, "our production has now increased two-fold", said Singh

Delhi-based Pearl Printers has recently installed an eight-up Kodak Trendsetter platesetter. The kit, which can produce plates up to 28x40-inch, now replaces the company’s existing Screen CTP. (r) According to Ashwani Thapar, proprietor at Pearl, his company produces more than 250 plates in a 24-hour production shift and needed a heavy-duty processor. Thapar found a solution in the Kodak Trendsetter

Mumbai-based, Hi-Tech Systems have installed a DG binder extra hotmelt glue automation album binding machine at Sood Studios in Ludhiana. Parag Shah, the head at Hi-Tech, said, “The DG binder extra from Kisun, South Korea allows binding offset as well as photo paper. The machine has the capacity to bind up to 250 albums per day in a single shift”

Agra’s Darpan Printers eyes short-run jobs with Komori Enthrone

Kolkata-based CDC Printers has invested in a Cron CTCP UVP4648GI with a Shangzun TPD 1100 plate processor. The new kit, Manu Choudhury one of the directors at CDC, said will make its second plant, a book printing unit set up four-years ago, self-sufficient

Sivakasi-based Shunmuga Thermal System has invested in a Heidelberg Suprasetter A106 in a bid to bring platemaking in-house. Thavasi Kumar, the co-founder of Shumunga, said, having an in-house platemaking facility has helped us cut down on outsourcing time and costs

Son N Naykpura has invested in Eco Plus, a die making machine from Serviform, Italy. The Eco Plus will run along side the existing Lasercomb machine

Ankit Printers has installed a Kodak CTP TS-800Q with Prinergy and has brought platemaking in-house, which Ankit Singh Waldia, the second generation of the family-owned business, said "will bridge the gap between the pre-press and press operations. The new kit has also allowed the company to serve as a pre-press bureau

Fairprint loyalist, Varanasi-based Jauhari Process has recently installed the company's two-colour machine. The 30-year old firm also owns a Fairprint single-colour machine

Inprintout Creation became the first in Western Maharashtra's Sangli to install the Canon digital production press, Imagepress C600

New Delhi-based Vinsak has announced the installation of two Iwasaki TR2 offset intermittent presses, one in Sivakasi at Seljegat Printers and the second in Bengaluru at Wintek Flexo Print

Kolhapur-based Pudhari Publications are set to install ten mRC-3D cameras supplied by QI Press Controls (QIPC) at its printing presses. The mRC-3D system will ensure full automation on the colour register of their Manugraph Cityline press with five towers

KGN Xerox, Hyderabad's digital and wide-format specialist has invested in four Konica Minolta Pro 1100s and a C1070 adding to a battery of more than 18 digital printing kits

Mizoram-based offset and digital print specialist, Inkspot Digiprint Solutions installed a range of digital finishing kits from Morgana and Renz in January 2016

India’s largest global flexible packaging solution company Uflex has joined hands with Think Lab, Japan to set up a fully automatic robotic laser engraving line for manufacturing rotogravure cylinders at its Noida facility