Koenig & Bauer’s record sheetfed offset sales in India

QualiTronic ColorControl is installed after the last printing unit of measurement. Performance and measurement brandish are integrated into the press console. Parksons Packaging and Canpac have ordered Grand&B's in line QCC systems on their Rapida presses. Photo G&B

Koenig & Bauer (KBA) mostlydominates the Indian market for highly configured packaging presses. While the strong sales and installations of Rapida 105 and 106 format vii-color plus coater full UV presses connected in the past year, there has also been a breakthrough of sorts in the 75 format. Launched at drupa 2022, packaging printers such as Wikas and York Packaging have installed Rapida 75 Pro 6-color plus coater presses, while the recently signed for RS Print Solutions' Rapida 75 Pro 6-color plus coater UV press will exist installed in April 2018. In add-on, a Rapid 75 4-color press has been ordered by a commercial printer in South Bharat, whose proper noun we cannot reveal at this time.

The Rapida 75 Pro is the redesigned and updated version of earlier 75 series presses with components such as G&B's own UV curing systems and automation features and a user interface similar to the highly automated Rapida 76, 105 and 106 presses. The ErgoTronic console with the TouchTronic graphic user interface is standard on the 75 Pro.

Chiliad&B, together with its distributor Indo-Polygraph has hit a torrid patch in the terminal three months with signings for as many as nine multicolor sheetfed first presses. Apart from the Rapida 75 Pro and Rapida 75 press sales cited in a higher place, a Rapida 106 seven-color plus coater UV press has been sold to Wikas Printers in Nasik. This is the same printer that installed the first M&B Rapida 75 Pro in the state in the beginning of 2017.

Some other order is for 3 K&B Rapida seven-color plus coater presses to Parksons Packaging, which might just be one of the fastest growing monocarton printers in the earth right now. Two of the iii presses, destined for Parksons' Daman and Chakan plants, comprise SPC and QCC automation controls. The SPC is the highest level of automation for simultaneous plate modify that will change all 7 units in 54 seconds apart from allowing other simultaneous operations primal to changovers and make-readies. The QCC inspection organization continuously scans and compares every printed sheet for defects. Parksons' third Rapida 106 7-color plus coater on lodge is for the plant in Guwahati and while it is a full UV press, it does not contain the SPC and QCC highest level automation option. One tin can await all three presses at Parksons Packaging to exist installed past the end of July 2018.

A major K&B order in the past couple of months is for Ajanta Printers in Mumbai—a Rapida 105 7-colour plus coater UV printing. This press will likely be installed in Apr 2018. The next club is from TCPL Packaging for its Goa plant—a Rapida 106 7-color plus coater UV press with logistics and other automation features.

The ninth M&B press on order in the by 3 months is from Canpac for its main plant in Ahmedabad. Canpac has just installed a Rapida 106 vii-color plus coater in September 2017, at its Tirupur plant. Now, within five months of its first K&B press installation, it has placed a repeat social club for a Rapida 106 7-color plus coater UV press with QCC and FAPC automation for its Ahmedabad plant.

The confirmed sales of nine presses in the by three months are an unprecedented order intake for any sheefted beginning printing manufacturer in India. While 2 of these are in the half format—a Rapida 75 4-colour, and a Rapida 75 Pro 6-color plus coater UV press—the other seven presses are all seven-color plus coater UV presses. Among these seven presses, three are with in-line QCC automation, two with SPC which represents the highest level of level of automated plate changing. All the other Chiliad&B presses ordered take FAPC plate changing which represents the second highest level of automation for plate irresolute with plates in all units being changed within 3 minutes. The implication is that the leading Indian packaging printers are optimistic that Gross domestic product growth will once again exceed 7% and are ready to invest in the highest levels of automation and productivity.

This article has been corrected on 26 Feb 2018.

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