A look at Manugraph's manufacturing site

Manugraph is one of India’s largest manufacturer of web offset presses. The ISO 9001:2008 certified company has two highly automised ultra modern manufacturing facilities in Kolhapur. Spread across an area of 1,30,000 sq/mts with over 1200 employees, Manugraph currently has over 6,700 units worldwide. Their market share in India is over 70% for web offset machines.

Words: Anand Srinivasan

Photographs courtesy: Manugraph India

01 Aug 2014 | By Anand Srinivasan

A complete Smartline press (double width with press speed of 70,000 cph)

View of roller cells in the machine shop

Folder former infeed under testing

A fully assembled book line feeder

The M360 single width, single circumference, 4 x 4 tower

M360 with integrated auto-paster

View of M360 tower. M360 is a single width, single circumference press with a speed of 36,000 cph

Super structure of the slitting/ draw rollers and turner bar of Smartline press

View of the M360 unit assembly. On an average, Manugraph's Kolhapur plant manufactures 10 towers per month of Cityline and M360 combined

Double width Autopaster, model 4550

The assembly line for folders

Cityline unit with integrated auto-paster

Fully assembled Smartline press ready for despatch

Cityline press unit under assembly. An other unit above this would make one tower

Five-face machining Centre

Gear testing facility in the QC department

Three dimensional co-ordinate measuring system for the quality control of machine parts

Deep hole drilling machine for drilling larger depth holes in the printing cylinders and blankets

Multi-axial machining centre for machining of housings and ink ducts, folding cylinders. The machine from Deckel Maho has vertical and horizontal axis support