TPH scores well in the first quarter

George Kuriakose, AGM for sales at TPH, said, “Despite the slowdown in the global market and the challenging economic conditions in the domestic market, our performance shows our products’ strength.”

Orders from Indian companies

The web offset printing presses manufacturing company has received orders from two of its existing customers in Rajasthan. One group has placed an order for 24 pages colour Orient X-Cel with a speed of 36,000 impressions an hour with integrated auto reel changers and automated dampening. Another printer has ordered for Orient Super with a speed of 30,000 impressions an hour. The press consists of three 4-high towers. Along with ordering the new press, the company also has placed orders for add-on 4-high towers for their two existing press centres.  

From the eastern part of the country, TPH confimed that it has received an order from a leading newspaper group for an Orient X-Cel with a speed of 36,000 impressions an hour.  The press will be equipped with all automation features and will be capable to produce 24 pages. TPH has also received orders from a regional newspaper in Bihar that consists of add-on 4-high towers to their existing presses.

“Many book printers have made a transition from sheetfed to web offset press to meet their high volume print requirement. This increases the printing output many-fold. TPH has been continuously receiving orders from book printers from all over India,” added Kuriakose.

Orders from international markets

TPH reported that it has bagged three new orders and successfully commissioned two printing presses. A new newspaper company in a neighbouring country (part of a large corporate house) has placed an order for Orient X-Cel press of 546mm cut-off. This press comprises of six 4-high towers and two folders and is equipped with brushmist, pneumatics, motorisation and several other automation features. It is slated to go into commercial production in the last quarter of 2013.

A new book printer in the same country, has zeroed in on TPH. TPH boasts that the customer has changed the trend of book printers going for low quality, low priced web machines of other Indian manufacturer by opting for top-of-the-line Orient Super of 560mm cut-off.

A leading commercial printer in Middle East has ordered a fully-automated one tower Orient X-Cel (36,000cph) press of 578mm cut-off with auto reel changer. The printer who already houses several sheetfed machines, opted for the Orient to lower costs and improve productivity. The shaftless press is equipped with spray dampening, auto colour registration and cut-off control, remote inking, automatic ink pumping, UV dryer, stacker, besides several other automation features. The press will mainly be used to print textbooks and semi-commercial magazines.

An Orient Super press of 560mm cut-off has been commissioned by a Government owned newspaper printing press in North Africa to handle commercial printing jobs. The press which comprises of two 4-high towers and one 2-high tower with a folder and four automatic reel changers, was the first Indian web machine to be bought by this customer.

An Orient X-Cel Press of 578mm cut-off has been commissioned at a Government organisation in a South Eastern country. The organisation is already an existing customer of TPH and houses three lines of Orient presses. This fourth press comprising of two 4-high towers, two mono units and a folder is equipped with several automation features. This press was a part of ongoing capacity expansion being done by the printer to meet the growing demand for its daily newspaper.