Green Printing Company: Repro India

For this book giant, environment and sustainability is a top priority. In what is its second win in this category, Repro India has outperformed its two contenders with a 31% reduction in its specific energy consumption in three years.

 

The book factory has mastered the four Rs – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Re-engineering – for greening up its print waste disposal with business benefits, which was achieved through conversion of a heatset machine to coldset. For this, the team developed a new ink, saved on LPG gas, saving of electricity, and reduction in paper wastage. Plus, the use of Vision punch IPO conventional punching/bending, which facilitated faster registration, and due to reduced makeready time conserved energy.

 

The use of CIP3 and ink optimiser benefitted the company in terms of direct transfer of data from pre-press to press, reduction in makeready time and waste, reduction in set-off issue and reduction in ink usage.

 

The green consciousness has trickled down to each Repro-ite in its plants in Navi Mumbai, Surat and Chennai, what with small-sized initiatives like standardising the shrink film thickness to installing HRMS system for leave application and attendance.

 

What is of interest is the company’s roadmap on the green front for 2016. The excess treated water of ETP, which is now being discharged to a Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP), will be used for sustainable landscaping/plantation around the plant. Plus, there is the possibility of rain water harvesting and imparting environment education to employees, contractors and suppliers.

 

Jagran Prakashan

Manipal Technologies