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  The five-day innovation week held by Heidelberg saw several thousand registrations from more than 100 countries, several hundred one-to-one discussions arranged with decision-makers, and around 100,000 hits on videos. This online event just finished. Taking 'Unfold your potential' as its slogan, it focused on transferring knowledge relating to the urgent issues in the sector. With product presentations on its latest highlights, innovation talks, and personal discussions via video chat, Heidelberg provided a comprehensive overview of its offerings in the commercial, label, and packaging segments.   “The feedback we have received so far from participants and our partners has been truly overwhelming,” says Ludwig Allgoewer, head of global sales and marketing at Heidelberg. “The participants praised the format and the content presented.” The combination of short, professionally produced videos and innovation talks with the option of follow-up live chats in which the content pre...

National Xerox is an established digital print service provider in Bardoli, in the Surat Metropolitan Region. In the last six months, it has commissioned two high-speed Konica Minolta digital production presses, substantially enhancing its print capacity. In March, National Xerox began printing on a new Konica Minolta AccurioPress C3080 colour production press. And then more recently, it installed and commissioned a Konica Minolta AccurioPress 6120 monochrome production press. “With the two brand new Konica Minolta presses, we significantly increased our colour as well as black and white print capacity. We replaced several old presses with the two new presses. Apart from our capacity to print higher volumes at faster speeds, with the far better quality output of these presses, we have extended our capabilities,” says Linesh Brahmkhatri, the owner of National Xerox. National Xerox services many students and therefore prints large volumes of black and white jobs. It prints for retail cl...

Polar-Mohr , the Hofheim (Germany) based machine building and technology company, has developed an innovation for postpress finishing. The Polar AirGo Jog is claimed to process entire layers fully automatically. An integrated blower unit is crucial for the systems’ success. The innovation is driven by the vision of autonomous end-to-end print finishing. The product innovation had its world premiere during the HD Innovation Week. AirGo Jog automates the loading and jogging process. First, a transomat loading unit takes an entire layer from a pallet and transports it into an automatic jogger. There the usual jogging process begins - with a decisive new component - a blower system. While jogging, two blower units blow air into the cutting layer to ensure a first-class jogging result. The jogged cutting layer is immediately ready for cutting. With a cycle time of around 60 - 90 seconds for the autonomous processing of a complete cutting layer, the innovation from Hofheim is highly efficie...

  As a leading Indian book printing exporter, Replika Press has become a well-known and reliable supplier to the West’s trade and textbook publishers. In the past twenty years, it has grown in the Kundli export zone just 30 minutes north of Delhi, by building three plants, of which the newest has a built-up space of over 400,000 square feet. There is a material and physical dimension to the growth. More importantly, a culture of technology absorption as the company brings in automation and new processes and diversifies to packaging and the new generation takes increasing responsibility. Most of all, the company shows opportunistic agility in quickly diversifying to monocarton packaging and luxury and rigid box cartons for the cell phone industry. But as the company’s managing director Bhuvnesh Seth conveys to us, he is aware that market trends change rapidly, and one must be ready for the next technology and market shift. Even as the company has diversified and structurally invest...

Stora Enso has completed the co-determination negotiations concerning the closure of one standard newsprint paper machine (PM3) and the deinking plant at Stora Enso ’s Hylte Mill in Sweden. The maximum personnel impact is 140 people. As a result of the co-determination negotiations, PM3 will be shut down by the end of 2020 and the DIP latest in Q2 2021. Negotiations on organizational restructuring, including the risk analysis, have started. According to our earlier article, the closure could result in total cost savings of Euro 14 million. “The decline in global newsprint demand continues due to changes in consumer behavior, and it is not expected to recover. This has lead to global overcapacity, low operating rates and poor profitability at the Hylte Mill. The planned measures would improve the competitiveness of the mill. Also, Stora Enso has invested in the site's future to produce formed fibre products and biocomposites,” says Kati ter Horst, EVP, paper division. Stora Enso wi...

  Compact design, high energy efficiency, simple installation, and fast commissioning – these are the convincing arguments that speak for the Innopro BoxFlash from KHS . The engineering company first presented its flash pasteurizer machine, specifically developed to meet the demands of small and medium-sized breweries, four years ago. The technology, proven in practice many times since, is now available for several new application areas -- where it was initially only used in keg racking, it is now compatible with the glass, can, and PET container segments. Its compact design on a frame means that users benefit from lower logistics costs and faster installation. As with all process engineering systems from KHS , the Dortmund turnkey supplier also uses as many identical parts as possible on the Innopro BoxFlash. Components taken from other series machines include, for instance, the buffer tank and frame from the Innopro Paramix program, KHS’ pioneering three-component blending system...

  The cumulative global sales of Epson high-capacity ink tank inkjet printers recently topped 50 million units. Epson is a global technology enterprise dedicated to becoming indispensable to society by connecting people, things, and information with its original efficient, compact and precision technologies. In India, as of September 2020, the cumulative sales of EcoTank printers has crossed 4.3 million units. Moreover, by saving on plastic, which is the main component of ink cartridges, the firm estimates that CO2 emissions were approximately 166,000 tons lower than they would have been if all these units had been cartridge printers. By first establishing a presence in emerging nations and then making inroads into developed economies, Epson has seen its high-capacity ink tank models account for a growing percentage of the total inkjet market each year. As a result, Epson, which claims to have strong brand recognition and an extensive product lineup, has continued to maintain the...

  More than a month ago, when Bengaluru only had 2,500 Covid-19 cases a day, I had the opportunity to interview Chirdeep Shetty, who is CEO of Quintype, a Bengaluru headquartered software company that powers some of the largest national and regional publishers such as BloombergQuint , Vikatan , Prabhat Khabar and many others. It is backed by Quintillion Media and IIFL Wealth – neither of whom are involved in its day to day operations. There is a long history of news publishers investing in technology companies. Often, the technology subsidiary feels that its development work can have a broader market than just its publisher investor. As Chirdeep Shetty told us, this was exactly what happened with Quintype, which developed the software for the digital platforms of Quint and Bloomberg Quint and then grew into a news industry software multi-channel solution provider. Shetty began, “We started about five years ago as a tech subsidiary of The Quint. We developed the editorial solution ...

 Pune-based Inkfish Creations has diversified into digital commercial printing with a brand-new Canon imagePRESS C710 digital production printer. The company was till now specializing in wide-format signage printing, which started in 2013. The Canon press was installed in early October and is expected to be fully commissioned within the week. “This is our first digital production press. Before finalizing the deal, we saw a couple of brands and found the quality of the Canon press the best. The color consistency is excellent and the resolution is 2,400 dpi x 2,400 dpi,” says Usama Yaqub of Inkfish Creations. “Also, the training provided by the Canon India team during installation was excellent.” The imagePRESS C710 can print at a speed of 70 pages per minute at what is claimed to be a resolution of 2,400 dpi x 2,400 dpi (and which we assume means 600 dpi in each color). It can handle a variety of paper stocks such as plain, heavy, coated and specialty, from A4 to 13X51-inch size. ...

  Tetra Pak, a global food processing and packaging solutions company, released the 2020 Sustainability Report, celebrating the many ways the company has worked to protect food, people, and the planet in the past year. An annual tradition since 1999, this year's report is especially poignant amid a global pandemic, while the world's focus on the planet and the environment are being challenged. Highlights from the global operations Continuing to ensure food safety and help customers maintain uninterrupted food supplies during the Covid-19 crisis. Working alongside customers worldwide to feed millions of children through school feeding programs and boost milk supply from smallholder farmers through its Dairy Hubs. Sixty-eight million children received milk or other nutritious products in Tetra Pak packages in schools. Pioneering Bonsucro Chain of Custody certification for plant-based polymers, a first in the food and beverage industry, ensures full traceability. For the fourth ye...

  The media and entertainment (M&E) sector in India is projected to see a significant decline of 20% in total revenues in FY2021, with deep cuts in print and films, followed by television, on account of Covid-19 disruption, according to a report published by KPMG on September 30.The M&E sector’s revenue in FY2021 is expected to be Rs 1,402 billion compared to Rs 1,751 billion in the FY2020. In contrast, the sector’s revenue grew by 7% year on year in FY2020, according to the report. With the global pandemic outbreak, India announced stringent measures to combat Covid-19 in March 2020 and headed into a long phase of lockdown. This led to pressure on supply chains, manufacturing, consumption and incomes as economic activity came to a halt and unemployment rose. As a result, India posted a steep 23.9% decline in GDP in Q1FY2021 as consumer spending and investments dried up. In FY2021, the digital consumption segments, that is, digital (including OTT video) and online gaming ...

  The Covid-19 induced lockdown has severely impacted India’s newspaper industry primarily due to the disruption in distribution and logistics challenges and the steep drop in advertising in the April to June quarter. Although circulations have improved in recent weeks, they are still significantly down from pre-lockdown levels. However, some newspapers like Jagran  utilized the pandemic to innovate on the logistics front and look for new opportunities. According to Deepak Pandey, senior vice president, Jagran said that the newspaper collaborated with other newspapers such as  Amar Ujala ,  The Hindu ,  Times of India , and  Hindustan Times  and formed a group to share knowledge during the lockdown. The news publishers shared market intelligence, made joint strategies, and shared costs, and best practices from markets. “We realized that everybody was doing their own thing, which did not lead us anywhere. So we came together to drive a common strategy ...