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RBP Chemical Technology is partnering with Kapoor Imaging to expand its printing chemistry presence in India. Among the RBP pressroom chemistries Kapoor Imaging will blend and distribute in India are a full line of fountain solutions for heatset web, coldset web and sheetfed presses.
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December 2013 RIND Survey 1 FROM THE EDITOR
A Chennai supplier enters a different league, set to fulfil a market need
The licensing agreement with RBP Chemical Technology, a US-based world-class supplier of proprietary chemicals and delivery devices for the printing, newspaper and electronics manufacturing industries, has certainly given Chennai-based Kapoor Imaging a leg-up. The agreement will now enable it to offer many solutions under one roof – plates, blankets, inks and the complete range of pressroom chemicals. Significantly, the agreement will help Indian commercial and newspaper sheet-fed printers. They will now have access to a line of top quality pressroom chemistry supply options from a well-known and reliable Indian supplier. For Kapoor Imaging, a leading solutions provider in the graphic arts industry in India, it’s been a long and eventful journey. Almost three years ago at Printpack in New Delhi, I had met Varun Kapoor who represents the third generation at the company (he is the elder son of Sunil Kapoor, the MD). He was then trying to focus more on newspapers and was slowly getting into the equipment business such as CtP. He was quite enthusiastic and mentioned how he had introduced a central billing system, set up the company’s own warehouse at the Chennai Port, and was trying to promote a workflow software. Today, the young business graduate from the UK, I understand, heads Apollo Poly Vinyl, a Kapoor Digital vertical and is overseeing the process of starting manufacture of Flex material and foam boards. It is always heartening to hear about a young Indian entrepreneur blossom. Kapoor Imaging clients are split between commercial and newspaper segments. It is a distributor for Fujifilm in east, north and south India, and an exclusive distributor for Kinyo (offset blankets) in India. The company’s own brands include Press Aid+ (a range of chemicals) and Topaz (PS and thermal plates). Now, with the RBP tie-up, things can only be brighter for the company.
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As this issue goes to print, the Press Institute of India and the International Committee of the Red Cross are all set to present the PII-ICRC Awards to journalists, in New Delhi. The subject chosen this time was Violence against Health Care Services and Personnel – Operating in the Face of Danger. The objective was to addresses the humanitarian challenges faced by health workers in the delivery of health care during armed violence. Events in recent weeks and months have led me thinking about the dangers journalists themselves face even as they discharge their duties. In Mali, two senior French journalists on a special assignment were kidnapped and killed two weeks ahead of legislative elections in the country. In Ethiopia, five journalists have been imprisoned under the country’s anti-terrorism laws. International media organisations have called for their unconditional release. A proposed new media law in Kenya risks imposing severe financial sanctions against journalists, publishers and broadcasters for breaching a code of conduct, and could even bar journalists from working. At another level, a group of leading global press freedom and media organisations have written an open letter to Queen Elizabeth II asking her to reject a proposed Royal Charter that would impose repressive statutory controls on the British press. In India, there have been rumblings of discontent within the media against various government strictures ahead of the general elections. The conditions are rather disquieting and let us hope that this is only a passing phase. Sashi Nair [email protected]
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A tie-up for offering superior pressroom chemistries 6 C o n t e s It’s DiamondSpirit SA for Malayala Manorama 11
Kodak reinforces sales in East India 14
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World’s first 160-page Lithoman begins operation 15
Special book printed with Kodak digital technology 17
Impresa selects WoodWing’s Enterprise 18
Boosting efficiency, minimising set-up times 20
Industry Updates 22
Other News 38
Calendar 47
Cover page photo: RBP Chemical Technology
December 2013 RIND Survey 5 KAPOOR IMAGING - RBP CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY A tie-up for offering superior pressroom chemicals RBP Chemical Technology, a US-based world-class supplier of proprietary chemicals and delivery devices for the printing, newspaper and electronics manufacturing industries, has signed a licensing agreement with Kapoor Imaging, headquartered in Chennai, for the blending of its pressroom chemistries line in India
apoor Imaging is a leading solution provider in the graphic arts industry with specialisation in prepress equipment, workflow software, specialty software, registration systems and Kconsumables for the printing industry. The licensing agreement with RBP Chemical Technology, a US-based world-class supplier of proprietary chemicals and delivery devices for the printing, newspaper and electronics manufacturing industries, takes Kapoor Imaging up from the level of distributor to manufacturer, says company MD Sunil Kapoor. “We will be a complete solution, a one-stop shop. We will offer plates, blankets, inks and the complete range of pressroom chemicals as well.” Under the existing exchange rates, importing and servicing of printers may not be a viable option, which makes the license especially advantageous for Indian customers, Kapoor points out. “This agreement is filling a market need by providing Indian commercial and newspaper sheet-fed printers a line of superior pressroom chemistry supply options through a well-known, reputable and local supplier,” says Mark Kannenberg, president, RBP Chemical Technology. RBP’s focus in India will be on its comprehensive line of pressroom chemicals used on coldest/ heatset web as well as commercial applications. What sets RBP apart in North America is its reputation for providing highly concentrated formulas. The company sees the same demand for ultra- concentrated formulas in Asia, as newspaper facilities strive to lower costs and deliver products to press more efficiently. Photos: Kapoor Imaging
How the alliance happened RBP Chemical Technology RBP Chemical Technology launched RBPToolBox.com to uniquely serve printing pressroom has had a presence in India customers online. RBPToolBox.com delivers everything a print customer, procurement specialist or plant floor operator needs to troubleshoot or browse solutions by application or for more than six years. “The by product category. company heard about Kapoor
6 RIND Survey December 2013 A shot from the RBP laboratory. RBP Chemical Technology's extensive technical services will benefit Kapoor's customers in India.
Imaging from various connections in Asia,” says sales force and RBP’s experienced chemists and vast Kannenberg. After starting a dialogue with Kapoor pressroom knowledge, we expect to see significant Imaging executives, RBP soon discovered that the growth in this market,” Kannenberg says. two companies shared many commonalities, such On his part, Kapoor feels his customers will gladly as business goals, target customers and ethics. It welcome expertise and guidance that gives them an became clear that an alliance would be a natural edge, “RBP has a strong track record for improving progression of their relationship. efficiencies in the pressroom, resulting in cost savings Sunil Kapoor shares the sentiment. “RBP is a to the customer,” he says, adding, “with laboratory market leader in USA. They were looking for a facilities being put in place, we have the opportunity local partner to cater to the Asian market,” he says. to address specific issues like pile-up and provide “We worked for a while with them before the actual customized solutions for clients.” He feels that with agreement was signed, and we have great respect this development, bringing good, proven products
for them - RBP is truly professional and totally closer home, the goalpost has been shifted. < focussed on business.” The agreement will provide RBP Chemicals the synergy it needs for marketing and distribution, while it will let Kapoor Imaging customers benefit from locally produced, Western-developed, world- class, FOGRA-approved pressroom chemistry lines, including silicones, fountain concentrates and press washes. “By combining Kapoor's established
December 2013 RIND Survey 7 The growth of Kapoor Imaging
Kapoor Imaging began life in 1976 as Kapoor Sales Corporation. It was set up by the late S.P. Kapoor at Broadway, Chennai. Initially, the company was dealing with sundries for graphic art and had clients all over South India. In 1980, it opened its first branch in Hyderabad and the next year in Sivakasi, the hub of offset printing in India. It now has a total of ten branches. With Sunil Kapoor (MD) at the helm, KIPL has achieved a turnover of close to Rs 100 crore. It has a state-of-the-art 30000 sq ft master warehouse in Chennai and offers total technical and logistic support at all its sales offices in India. Sunil Kapoor. The company represents a number of world-renowned brands and has a staff strength of around 100. The corporate and registered office is in Chennai and sales and service support offices are located in New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Cuttack, Hyderabad, Kochi, Vijyawada, Bangalore and Sivakasi. The warehousing facility within Chennai city limits is huge by industry standards. They are also looking at building a new facility in Gummidipoondi, a suburb of Chennai. This will be a state-of-the- art facility and Kapoor Imaging’s manufacturing facilities will also come up there. It caters to newspapers using heatset, coldset and UV cured machines. In the sheet-fed category, it caters to commercial/packaging/metal decoration and UV cured machines. Kapoor Imaging supplies blankets, chemicals and consumables to web presses such as TKS (New Towers), Colorman, Wifag, Goss, Manugraph (Frontline, CityLine) Orients, Fast 300's, Pressline, Naph, Ronald, Goss Mitsubishi, Komori amd Toshiba, and sheet-fed ones like Mitsubishi, Komori, Heidelberg, Roland, Shinohara, Ryobi, Crabtree, KBAs, Polygraph, Akiyama and Dominants The company’s USP is service. Customers within a range of 500 km, who order blankets, chemicals
etc, can expect to receive their supplies within 24 hours. At times, bulk supplies are sent in the company’s own trucks as they manage their logistics to some extent. <
Containers arranged on a rack. The RBP Chemical Technology and Kapoor tie-up will ensure customers have a locally-available supply of Western- developed press room chemistry including silicones, fountain concentrates and press washes.
8 RIND Survey December 2013 Asian Digital Media Awards presented
Some of Asia’s leading news media companies, including Singapore Press Holdings, South China Morning Post, Kompas, and the Nation Group, were among the winners of the 4th annual Asian Digital Media Awards presented in a ceremony in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA). The awards, the most prestigious recognition of outstanding work in the fields of online media, online video, infographics, cross media, mobile publishing, tablet publishing, and social media, were presented to more than 20 companies, individuals and publications in Asia-Pacific, South Asia and the Middle East. The ceremony was held at Digital Media Asia 2013, WAN-IFRA’s annual digital conference which gathered 290 media executives from 31 countries. Gold medal prize winners in the Asian Digital Media Awards were: - Newspaper website: Singapore Press Holdings - Magazine website: Mongoose Publishing Sdn Bhd, for Time Out Kuala Lumpur - Online Video: MINDEF Public Affairs, Singapore, for Fat to Fit - Online Infographics: South China Morning Post, Hong Kong, for Kowloon Walled City: Life in the City of Darkness - Cross Media Editorial: Seven West Media, Australia, for Syria’s Refugee Crisis - Cross Media Advertising: Singapore Press Holdings, Tiger Beer, ‘Have you been good this year’ - Mobile Publishing: Thanh Nien Newspaper, Vietnam, for its Thanh Nien Mobile - Tablet Publishing: PT Kompas Media Nusantara, Indonesia, for Kompas Archipelago Culinary
Expedition - Social Media: Nation Broadcasting Corporation, Thailand, for the Nation Group <
December 2013 RIND Survey 9 Expanding frontiers... and the importance of Asia Founded in 1954, RBP Chemical Technology Inc (RBP) is a company is committed to delivering consistently high quality products and services, including research and development, analytical services and custom manufacturing. RBP Chemical Technology serves the pressroom printing, electronics chemistry and process chemicals industries. For over 50 years, it has delivered intelligent business solutions cantered on a customer-focused supply chain, technical competencies, unparalleled service support and continuous process improvement. With over 2000 active SKUs, the company is one of the largest suppliers of pressroom chemistry and products Mark Kannenberg. to the North American newspaper industry. Mark Kannenberg, president, has been at the helm of RBP Chemical Technology since 1985, setting the overall corporate direction and leading the executive and operations teams in driving continuous improvement throughout the company. His significant sales, marketing and operations experience in an international technology environment has led to several successful mergers and acquisitions and profitable global business developments. Kannenberg helped RBP establish a Total Quality Management (TQM) programme in 1992 and achieve ISO certification in 1999 and Lean Six Sigma in 2010. The company launched a new ultra concentrate earlier this year, adding to its Liquid Gold line well- known for superior ink and water control for producing cleaner, sharper print quality. Under the Intellicon brand, Liquid Gold UC is a more robust formulation that addresses many of the challenges found on- press. Concentrated more than twice as much as other products on the market and also completely homogenous, meaning they are uniform in structure or composition throughout, Liquid Gold UC enables coldset web printing operations to reconstitute the product to any desired amount onsite, resulting in more efficient product use. The company also offers FOGRA-approved products, which are specified by certain equipment manufacturers. RBP-sourced printing chemicals and pressroom supplies find a place in the most prominent newsprint and commercial print facilities in North America, China, India and South America. RBP has a wholly- owned division, RBP Technology (India) that has been manufacturing products for print and electronics in Mumbai since 2007. RBP’s PCB products are also manufactured by approved blenders in South Korea and Thailand. Printing chemicals and PCB fabrication products are sold and serviced by factory-trained sales and service representatives and distributors in North America and Asia. While in much of the developed world, print newspapers are suffering declining readership and revenue, India is experiencing significant growth. In 2009, Asia overall saw circulation gains of 1.03 per cent and is home to 67 of the 100 largest newspapers in the world. The gains were found at greater rates in nations such as India (5 per cent), says Kannenberg. An increase in newspaper advertising revenues of 13 per cent from 2008 to 2009 also support the idea that Asia, and specifically India, hold great potential. Growing populations in Asia contribute to this newspaper industry growth, and culture differences play a role as well. In India, for example, reading a print newspaper is perceived as a prestigious activity, RBP Chemicals found. Educated people read multiple papers which are printed in several languages, the company realised. Newspapers are supporting these countries’ efforts to improve their literacy rates as well, the company concludes. This has catalysed its interest in Asia. In comparison, the US newspaper publishing market has shrunk dramatically seeing an estimated 30 per cent drop in revenues from online and offline circulation and advertising in recent years. “Our population is not growing,” Kannenberg said. “Alternatively our desire for getting our information via online media with our very accessible computers and mobile devises is fierce.” The company is confident
that the processes and operations it employs to deliver world-class chemistry to its North American customers will translate to its expansion in India. <
10 RIND Survey December 2013 It’s DiamondSpirit SA for Malayala Manorama Mitsubishi has announced a sales contracts signing with Malayala Manorama Company for five lines of its new 4 x 1 newspaper offset press, the DiamondSprit SA, a newly developed press designed and manufactured specifically for the growing Indian and Asian markets. The first DiamondSpirit SA press for Malayala Manorama will be shipped around the autumn of 2014, and all remaining presses will be shipped in succession by late summer of 2015
ith press reliability positioned high among the most important design considerations in developing the new 4 x 1 DiamondSpirit SA, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Printing & Packaging WMachinery opted to implement many of the proven technologies of its DiamondStar (4 x 2) and DiamondSpirit (4 x 1) presses. Another essential design concept focused on higher ROI of the entire project cost, and this was successfully realised by applying a single around blanket cylinder design and by building a more compact press. Compared with the 4 x 1 DiamondSpirit press with double-around-blanket cylinders, the height of the tower printing unit has been reduced from 5.6m to 4.4m, and the weight of the unit reduced from 45t to 30t, while still retaining a rigid press structure. Consequently, the DiamondSpirit SA press can be installed in existing 2 x 1 press plants to reduce initial investment cost. In addition to initial installation cost savings, running cost savings can be realised as well. The compact press design reduces power consumption by 20 per cent, and Mitsubishi’s precise web tension control reduces start-up waste as well as print waste. The Mitsubishi 4 x 1 DiamondSpirit SA presses for Malayala Manorama are rated at 75000 cph with a cutoff of 546 mm (21.5 in) and a web width of 1400 mm (55 in). The press lines will be configured with four 4/4 tower printing units, one 1/1 tower printing unit, one 2:2 single rotary folder and five reelstands. The presses will be operated by the Mitsubishi press control system with automated features that include ink presetting with CTP interface, various press presets, automatic webbing up, automatic dual web tension control, automatic colour register Photos: Mitsubishi control and more. One of the attractive features of the DiamondSpirit SA presses The DiamondSpirit SA press for demonstration at the Mitsubishi factory. for Malayala Manorama is its Soft
December 2013 RIND Survey 11 the tower printing units maintains power for other shaftless drive motors; and the shaftless drive motors of the folders and the superstructure are synchronised until the press stops. Although some newspaper publishers have installed an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) to operate an entire press line for a few minutes during power failures, the UPS requires battery replacement every two or three years. On the other hand, the Soft Stop function does not require battery replacement, and as a result, lifetime cost of the Soft Stop function is much more economical than that of the UPS. Sealing the deal: Malayala Manorama Chief Editor and Managing When Malayala Manorama set out to select new Director Mammen Mathew (right) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Printing & Packaging Machinery President Masami Shimizu. presses, its most important considerations were press reliability and operation efficiency. With Stop function. The advanced function is Mitsubishi’s today’s tough market conditions, present even in answer to the unstable electric power supply. While growing markets like India, higher ROI ratio was these will be the first presses in India to be equipped required to justify any new press investment. After with the Soft Stop function, the feature has already in-depth comparisons of several different press been well proven in numerous installations in Japan, models with actual product observations day and where countermeasures against power outages are night, Mitsubishi’s DiamondSpirit SA press was absolutely essential. chosen as the press to meet Malayala Manorama’s With the Soft Stop function, when a power failure requirements. is detected by the press, the press will be slowed and Company reliability and sustainability also weighed softly stopped through a synchronization of shaftless heavily in the press selection process. Mitsubishi drive motors, without incurring any web breaks. This was also viewed favorably as a result of its long track synchronised stop happens in three steps: a sudden record in India, its comprehensive sales and service power failure is detected by the sensors; regenerative support network, and its continuing commitment
energy obtained from the shaftless drive motors of to the Indian printing and publishing market. <
A 126-year-old newspaper
Malayala Manorama, the largest selling Malayalam newspaper, was founded on March 14, 1888 by Kandathil Varghese Mappilai in Kottayam, Kerala. It began as a four-page weekly newspaper, published every Saturday. The weekly newspaper became a bi-weekly in 1901, a tri-weekly in 1918, and a daily in 1928. Today, Malayala Manorama is one of world’s largest daily newspapers with a circulation of 2.3 million copies a day. It is published from 18 printing centres: 11 centres in Kerala, five in Indian cities outside Kerala, and two located outside India. Malayala Manorama has been expanding its print business into magazines for decades. It now publishes more than 40 magazine titles in Malayalam as well as in English. The group is successfully spreading its wings into other media outlets to include the Internet (Manorama Online), and television (Manorama News) and radio (Radio Mango) broadcasting. As an example of its success, in
2007, Manorama Online was ranked the world’s third most popular online newspaper by the web information company Alexa, following The New York Times and The Washington Post. <
12 RIND Survey December 2013 Members of Malayala Manorama and Mitsubishi pose for a group photo. From left: P. P. Prakash, George Verghese, Harsha Mathew, Shibu George, Mammen Mathew, Masami Shimizu, Takashi Uchiu, Mamoru Ito, George Jacob, Siji Joseph, Joseph P. Varghese, Roy Alex and P. K. Philip.
Dependability, performance tip the scales
At the printing facility in Greater Noida in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, the course had already been set for expanding capacity in 2011 in order to satisfy the rising demand for daily newspapers in the capital New Delhi. Now, HT Media has installed two 80000-generation presses in addition to the three existing newspaper presses. Thanks to the positive experience gained during the longstanding collaboration with Ferag, the management team at HT Media has again decided in favour of a solution from the Swiss mailroom specialist. It was mainly the constant, high output achieved in combination with the existing presses at a maximum printing speed of 90000 copies an hour, plus the dependability of the technology in day-to-day operations, that tipped the scales in its favour. At both folder deliveries on the new presses, the daily newspapers are gripped and transported using the UTR Universal conveyor to the two MultiStack stackers on each mailroom line. On arrival there, conveniently sized bundles of the daily newspapers are produced, tuned to the respective route. Prior to sealing and cross-strapping, an underwrapper is fed to the bundles and a top sheet is printed inline with all relevant information pertaining to distribution. So as to offer their customers new advertising formats, both lines have
HT Media is one of the big players in the Indian
also been equipped with an application module to apply newspaper market. < MemoSticks to the front page of the newspapers.
December 2013 RIND Survey 13 Kodak reinforces sales in East India Kodak records six CTP installations in the space of two months in both commercial as well as newspaper segments
ustomers have shown their renewed commitment towards Kodak’s integrated thermal technologies. With accurate, stable, and repeatable thermal imaging, Kodak computer-to-plate C(CTP) devices are designed to meet the plate making needs of commercial and newspaper printers. The Kodak CTP solutions are modular, with a wide choice of automation, speed, and screening upgrade options, that helps maximise investment and grow business. One of the recent installations in the newspaper segment includes Saraswati Print Factory - printers of Sunmarg – based in Kolkata, who installed two Kodak Achieve 400 Platesetters. Uttarbanga Sambad, the largest circulated newspaper in North Bengal has also invested in the Kodak Trendsetter News Platesetter to enable them to print excellent image quality, increase efficiency and productivity. Speaking about the installation, Sabyasachi Talukdar, editor of Uttarbanga Sambad says, “Thermal technology is more reliable in terms of quality, consistency and performance, which were paramount parameters for us. The thermal technology does not require air-conditioning for transportation and storing of plates. Hence we opted for the Kodak thermal CTP as it also enables Photo: Kodak speed option from 42 plates to 70 plates.” The Kodak Trendsetter 800. Apart from the newspaper segment, Kodak observed success in the commercial segment with the installation of the third Kodak Trendsetter 800 Platesetter at Yorke Print based in Kolkata. York Print has been into the printing and packaging business for more than three decades. They started commercial production in November 2002 in Meghalaya and presently it is one of the India's largest manufacturers of printed folding cartons. Having installed the Kodak CTP Technology in its Guwahati and Kolkata units, they invested in the third Kodak Trendsetter 800 Platesetter to support their expansion plans. Further, the Kodak Trendsetter 400 Platesetter was installed at Janambhumi Press in Guwahati for its commercial division; they chose Kodak Thermal technology and placed its second order for the Kodak Trendsetter News Platesetter to cater to its newspaper Division. Subroto Sharma, managing director of Janambhumi Press, says “We have chosen Kodak Thermal CTP technology as its speed as well as the size is upgradeable, which is a very important factor in today’s changing print scenario.” Adds Aloke Hazarika, regional sales manager - East, Kodak India: “Customers are keen to harp on the benefits provided by Kodak Thermal technology due to its consistent performance and round the clock service over the years. This shows customers continued
support and trust for the brand. The Kodak Platesetters are versatile, enabling high quality print output, delivering maximum productivity.” <
14 RIND Survey December 2013 World’s first 160-page Lithoman begins operation The world’s largest heatset commercial press from manroland web systems began operation on schedule at Kraft-Schlötels, part of the WKS Druckholding Group, in Wassenberg, Germany
t drupa in May last year, WKS Druckholding and manroland web systems set up a joint project to create the “world’s largest heatset commercial press”. Around 18 months later, on ANovember 13, 2013, the idea has become reality: the two-web 80-page Lithoman demonstrated its performance to customers, suppliers, media, and guests invited from the worlds of politics and business at Kraft-Schlötels in Wassenberg. “For this project, we approached the press technology purely from the perspective of our customers. We intensively analysed our customers’ needs regarding the flexibility of page numbers, formats, and product design, and tried to implement them as far as possible. As a result, a press was developed, which, on the one hand, consists of conventional press components that have never before combined in this way (two-web 80-page press). On the other hand, we also devised our own conceptions on folding technology that have given rise to extensive new designs at press supplier companies. Our new Lithoman press design now reflects our technological concepts regarding flexible and economic production.” Ralph Dittmann, manager of WKS, was obviously impressed by the 160-page Lithoman press at its official start of production. WKS is one of the leading web offset companies in Germany and consistently orients itself toward customer needs. As a leader in innovation, the printing house has once again relied on Augsburg press technology: “The Lithoman presses have absolutely proven themselves in daily operation when it comes to printing
stability, quality, and, above all, Photos: manroland systems web productivity.” Eckhard Hoerner-Marass, managing director of manroland An excellent team: manroland web systems, WKS and the new Lithoman with 160-page web systems, emphasised the press in the production network – a brilliant feat of engineering excellence and entrepreneurial excellent cooperation with the achievement.
December 2013 RIND Survey 15 production network: “The two Lithoman presses are operated together since they are equipped with one cutter module. This module was adapted to our customer WKS’ ideas and provides completely new production options. In addition, the newly designed folder superstructure with three formers allows operators to run over up to twelve paper ribbons. This combination results into a previously undreamt- of productivity and product options. Buzzwords like continuous two-page increments, complete flexibility in register products, a combination of two paper types, up to 500000 products per hour, and format variability have suddenly become reality.”
Combining advantages November 13, 2013 was the official start of production. From left: In the past, web offset printing already offered Ralph Dittmann, WKS; Bert Schoonderbeek, Contiweb; Eugen Viehof, Vibro-Gruppe; Manfred Winkens, Major Wassenberg; Klaus a wide range of production options. With the Viehof, Vibro-Gruppe; and Eckhard Hoerner-Marass, manroland web extensive development step now completed, Eckhard systems. Hoerner-Marass sees manroland web systems well prepared for the future: “manroland web systems immensely committed WKS specialists: “WKS now offers presses ranging from 16-pages to 160- had very clear ideas on production diversity and pages for commercial web printing. We have already the resulting demands on the production process. completely filled the fields of high quality, cost- Our colleagues from sales and design collaborated effective and quick printing form production, as with WKS in a creative process to draft the press well as maximum flexibility and productivity with concept. The result: a unique Lithoman press with our web offset presses for small, medium, and large customised technology.” runs. Now, we have managed to perfectly supplement our range of offerings and provide our customers Extraordinary configuration with tailored, highly efficient press concepts, even WKS now produces at sites in Wassenberg for demands such as extremely large print runs and
and Essen with eight manroland web systems format variability.” < commercial web offset presses ranging from 32 to 80 pages. As part of the current investment, several older systems were decommissioned. The two- web 80-page Lithoman with a total of web width of 4.5 meters is the equivalent of a 160-page press. As a result, it sets the benchmark for maximum productivity, producing up to 50000 revolutions per hour. The Lithoman is something truly Read the journal from extraordinary for everyone involved. It features ultimate automation: in addition to the fully- the automatic AutomaticPlateLoading, the ClosedLoop Press Institute of India systems developed by manroland to control inline fanout, color, and cut-off registers have also been that covers issues integrated. The features optimise effective machine pertinent to the media. operation and reduce waste. The Lithoman will mainly be used to produce magazines, catalogs, and supplements. Veit Müller, Yearly subscription only executive sales manager at manroland web systems, Rs 200. explains the significance of 160-pages in the
16 RIND Survey December 2013 Special book printed with Kodak digital technology The Concord Free Press, photographer Gilles Peress, and Kodak collaborate on a photoessay book to raise funds for Hurricane Sandy relief on the one-year anniversary
ne year after Sandy, the lethal hurricane that wreaked havoc on the mid-Atlantic, a new book is focused on raising awareness and funds for relief efforts. The book, titled The Rockaways, was Oconceived by the Concord Free Press and printed exclusively with Kodak digital technology. It combines visceral photos by renowned Magnum photographer Gilles Peress with the voices of residents of The Rockaways, one of the communities hit hardest by Sandy in 2012. The project involved dozens of writers, editors, designers, print professionals, and publicists who donated their time and talents to create The Rockaways. Kodak served as the technology partner for the book, leveraging its state-of-the-art digital printing technology to deliver a high-quality final product on paper donated by NewPage Corporation. Blending output from the Kodak Nexpress SX3300 Digital Production Colour Press with output from the Kodak Prosper 5000XLi Press, the book showcases the two leading imaging technologies and the ability of Kodak Solutions to provide high quality and low cost for book publishers. “This was a very unique production approach, using both electrophotographic and inkjet printing technology in one project,” explains Will Mansfield, Kodak’s marketing director for Inkjet Printing Solutions. “The publishing market is increasingly turning to short-run business models, and this book is a perfect example of the quality that can be achieved with our latest digital printing technology. With the right solutions, short runs can be cost effective, and publishers can mix and match the best solutions to achieve the desired results. Being part of this particular Photo: Kodak. project was a very rewarding opportunity to bring our technology to bear on an important issue.” The Rockaways cover page. Officially launched by the Concord Free Press recently at an event in New York City, The Rockaways will be available at no charge through independent bookstores, museums, and on the Internet. Organisers ask that recipients donate to a Sandy-related aid organisation, another charity, or someone in need, and then pass the book on to another reader so that he or she can donate as well. One of the important benefits of using digital printing for these books is the ability to sequentially number each individual copy so that readers can track donations via the Concord Free Press website. “The Concord Free Press is on the outer edge of the publishing world, exploring new ideas and approaches, challenging assumptions, and creating books that matter—like The Rockaways,” says Stona
Fitch, its founder. A number of national media outlets, including the New York Times, Huffington Post, The Atlantic Wire, and Shelf Awareness have already covered the project. <
December 2013 RIND Survey 17 Impresa selects WoodWing’s Enterprise Impresa opted for WoodWing’s multi-channel publishing system Enterprise and its editorial management application Content Station over two other well-known systems. WoodWing replaces Impresa’s legacy system, which has been used for about 10 years but lacked the flexibility to address today’s multi-channel publishing challenges
mpresa selected WoodWing’s multi-channel publishing system Enterprise for its weekly newspaper Expresso, for an extensive portfolio of magazines and for various digital offerings. WoodWing Ibested two other well-known suppliers to replace Impresa’s legacy publishing solution. The combination of the recognised multi-channel publishing capabilities of Enterprise and its editorial management application Content Station, together with the attractive subscription model offered by WoodWing, made the difference. In the first phase, the production of all print titles and their digital editions for tablets and smartphones will be migrated to WoodWing’s system. At the next stage, the online offerings will also be integrated in the publishing workflow provided by Enterprise. The Impresa team can thereby leverage the groundbreaking multi-channel publishing functionality of the new version 9 of Enterprise and Content Station, reaching an unrivaled level of efficiency and ease of use. “With Enterprise as our new publishing system, we have the flexibility to handle the production of all current and future titles in print, online and digital in an efficient and transparent manner,” said Raul Carvalho das Neves, COO Operations & Technology at Impresa. “This way, we can quickly and efficiently offer our readers the most compelling content via all appropriate channels and devices.” The implementation of Enterprise at Impresa will be managed by WoodWing’s partner PubliQare. PubliQare will revamp the workflow Photo: WoodWing at Impresa to meet modern standards and roll out WoodWing Enterprise Impresa selected WoodWing’s multi-channel publishing system Enterprise to create integrated with Adobe DPS for its newspapers and magazines for print and digital. digital publishing and Dataplan’s JournalDesigner for page planning. Impresa is the largest media group in Portugal. Founded in 1973, by Francisco Pinto Balsemão, Impresa owns six TV channels and 14 magazines and newspapers. The company is active in three business areas – publishing, digital and television. Impresa publishes the newspaper Expresso, the best-selling weekly newspaper in Portugal and winner of the European Newspaper Award in 2006. In
18 RIND Survey December 2013 addition, the group publishes 14 magazines. Expresso and many of the magazines are available in print and online as well as for Android and iOS tablets and smartphones. PubliQare is a specialist in the field of efficient multi-channel publishing solutions. The expert team helps its customers to automate and optimise their publishing processes. Whether customers want to publish via print, mobile, tablet or social media, PubliQare provides the knowledge and technology to implement the most efficient workflows. PubliQare is part of Qare Group, a service provider that focuses on system integration, automation and editorial consultancy in the field of new technologies for publishers, media companies and corporate
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December 2013 RIND Survey 19 Boosting efficiency, minimising set-up times VPM Druck KG in Rastatt has recently invested in new gatherer-stitcher technology from Ferag
PM Druck KG in Rastatt, a fully owned subsidiary of the Bauer Media Group, has recently invested in new gatherer-stitcher technology from Ferag. The existing Ferag technology dating Vfrom 1992 had been in use for far longer than planned, and the time had come to replace it. A further reason: the old technology was no longer sufficiently flexible, and the set-up times were therefore too long. Moreover, the trend towards low circulations is increasingly evident. From the initial brainstorming sessions to actual realisation, the project to invest in a new gatherer-stitcher installation and press deliveries lasted almost three years. Product sales patterns demanded a completely new concept. The installation commenced at the beginning of May 2013 and was concluded at VPM Druck with no breaks in production. Commissioning was Photos: Ferag complete by the start of September 2013. Apart from a Rima log delivery system, the Impressive volumes of magazines and periodicals are processed at VPM Druck. installation comprises a Ferag UniDrum gatherer stitcher drum with six JetFeeder hoppers, an EasySert inserting system with three JetFeeder supplement hoppers and an SNT-50 trimming drum - all from Ferag. At VPM Druck, the newly developed Unicover cover hopper is being integrated into a live production line for the first time. On the UniCover cover hopper, sheets are creased, folded and fedtothe UniDrum as covers at speeds up to 40,000 copies an hour. The new UniCover reduces the number of production steps, and therefore personnel costs.. PreTronic fully automatic format presetting from Ferag is a further function of the new installation and helps meet the requirement for fast set-up times. Thanks to the PreTronic control, the changeover from one job to the next is accomplished in a just few minutes. The new Ferag installation reduces the previous set-up time of two to four hours per job down to 30 minutes.
20 RIND Survey December 2013 The Ferag UniDrum gatherer-stitcher drum is delivered to VPM Druck and taken to the second floor of the building for installation.
The core business of VPM Druck, a specialist in sheet and web offset, and its 190 employees is the production of magazines and supplements, and also catalogues, brochures, booklets and sticker flyers, for well-known customers. Circulations range between 10,000 and over a million copies, depending on the job. Each year, up to 120 million stitching
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A Ferag engineer makes precision adjustments to the UniCover cover hopper (on right).
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highly competitive prices due to significant reductions Picton Press invests in in raw materials, makeready times, reduced energy ten-colour Rapida 106 usage and full automation, resulting in maximum efficiency.” He continues: “We believe in the next six Following an order for a six-colour KBA Rapida months Picton will have assembled the best printing 162 with coater from Centrum Printing, a further solution operation in Australia enabling us to offer Australian firm has opted for cutting-edge press our customers additional benefits, provide related technology from Koenig & Bauer. Perth print information in respect to the pressures being applied business Picton Press is assembling what its by the market with ISO colour management and managing director Dennis Hague says will be the reporting, ease of operation, transparent reporting, best printing solution in operation in Australia with supported by the very best people all in one affordable a multi-million dollar spend that includes a new easy-to-use set of platforms. The new press will also automated ten-colour KBA Rapida 106 perfector allow us entry into markets we have been unable to and a new MIS system. service in the past.” The press which features sidelay-free infeed, “After extensive trips, many demonstrations and simultaneous plate changing and DriveTronic subsequent meetings with various manufacturers, components will start its journey to Australia in we choose KBA. This decision was based on the January 2014. Dave Lewis, general manager at press technology, their openness and support to fully KBA Australia says: “There will not be a higher integrate the solutions and a reporting system that we specified press in Australia. It prints at 18000sph not only require but our major clients are demanding,” in perfecting mode, has fully automated makeready, says Hague when explaining why he decided on the automatic simultaneous plate changing, Plate Ident Rapida 106. cameras which scan the plates and pull the job into register before running any substrates, and it is also A fitness programme for connected to a central ink pumping system.” Thanks to its standardised dryer modules the new the newspaper press will come prepared for retrofitting HR–UV inks. The advantage of this is that the ink dries Australian media group Fairfax Media Limited immediately and no spray powder is necessary. is adapting newspaper production to changing Dennis Hague is looking forward to the benefits conditions. A decentralisation concept is set to this press will bring: “This increase in firepower will realign capacity in the press hall and in the mailroom. allow us to offer the very highest quality products at In June 2014, two printing facilities, Chullora near Sydney and Tullamarine near Melbourne, will close and production will be transferred to the Ballarat site, west of Melbourne, and North Richmond, to the north of Sydney. Decentralization of production should help lower production costs by around 60 percent. "We have reorganized the products within the group in order to optimize our line utilization", says Bob Lockley, Group director Print & Distribution at Fairfax Media.
Photos in this section: company/agency section: this in Photos Thanks to the decentralisation project, Fairfax is also reshuffling its cards in the mailroom. Ferag is In 2014, an automated ten-colour KBA Rapida 106 perfector supporting Fairfax with this project and integrating for 5-over-5 production will be installed at Picton Press in Perth, existing components from Tullamarine into the Australia. facilities in Canberra, North Richmond and Newcastle
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in Australia, and also into the two New Zealand upgrade controls on both the legacy machines to its sites in Wellington and Auckland. It's mainly the current Omnicon platform for compatibility with integration of the MultiDisc winding systems and the Magnapak, creating a cohesive and integrated the MSD MultiSertDrum inserting drums that system. will give the separate locations greater flexibility The project will be completed in early 2014. Officials and enable them to cope with higher production from the Houston Chronicle confirmed the order at the volumes and tighter deadlines. Print 2013 show in Chicago. Integration of the separate components had already begun in the spring of 2013, and all work was accomplished with no interruptions to production. CCI to buy Escenic Here, Ferag can bring to bear its experience in the area of project management and equipment CCI, known among the world's largest media manufacturing, and thus ensure that integration companies as a provider of multi-channel publishing is problem-free. Balancing of the components' software solutions, is now strengthening its position control software can also be necessary, which Ferag through the acquisition of Escenic from Vizrt. CCI enables across several system generations - thus and Vizrt have been strategic partners for the past underlining once again the fact that the company six years, and have signed an agreement that also takes investment security seriously. allows Vizrt to continue selling Escenic products as an integral part of its overall solutions offering. "This is the perfect match. Escenic is an important Houston Chronicle to part of our business, due to its strong expertise in online publishing. CCI and Vizrt have enjoyed a great add Goss inserter cooperation during the last six years, and we have been The Houston Chronicle has ordered a new Goss able to provide the best of bread solutions to the news Magnapak inserter and contracted with Goss industry as a direct result of this partnership. The International to enhance existing Goss NP632 latest example is the corporate-wide CCI NewsGate and NP2299 inserters as part of a comprehensive editorial and Escenic online solution to McClatchy in project to improve mailroom capacity and efficiency. the US. This acquisition is a natural next step in the The new Magnapak inserter will cycle at up to close cooperation between our companies,"says Dan 30000 copies per hour. Dual-delivery capability Korsgaard, CEO of CCI. will give the publisher the versatility to operate a Says Martin Burkhalter, CEO of Vizrt: “We are single stream or two separate streams. Goss will convinced of the importance of the Escenic product assist in the relocation of the NP632 inserter and range for our customers, and we will continue to provide fully integrated solutions, which form an important part of our sales strategy. We will continue to meet current and future challenges and opportunities that our customers are facing in the implementation of their multiplatform distribution strategy. Considering the dynamics in Escenic’s core markets, we believe that CCI, which is highly focused on the online market place, provides a great platform for Escenic to ensure future growth.” Both companies are committed to ensure that current and potential Escenic and Vizrt customers will continue to receive the highest level of service. Vizrt and CCI have also agreed that CCI will sell From left: Goss International sales manager Mike McGeady with Jon and implement the Viz Media Engine (VME) video Kissau, manager of operations, Steve Earles, packaging director, and solution, further cementing the strong relationship Michael Sacks, vice-president of operations for the Houston Chronicle between the two companies. at the Print 2013 show in Chicago.
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Escenic AS is a leading provider of online as possible; and production equipment could be publishing solutions, based in Oslo, Norway and has put to profitable use for further years. a subsidiary Escenic Asia in Bangladesh. Escenic Without being too provocative, it could be said provides a multi-channel and mobile ready publishing that I-print Oy had no other choice than MultiStack solution including the Escenic Content Engine, a technology from Ferag. “There was never any high performance content management and delivery discussion about it. There is no reason to change system for modern websites, the Widget Framework, the very supplier that we have worked with so well with readymade building blocks, websites and a and so closely for all these years. Apart from the powerful front-end user interface. Escenic customers fact that with MultiStack technology, we obtained include: Schibsted, De Telegraaf, News International, an excellent product at a fair price that will allow us Telegraph Media Group, Trinity Mirror, SVT (Swedish to keep our future options open, we also appreciate TV), Axel Springer, JP/Politikens Hus, Independent, the solution-oriented approach adopted by the WAZ, TV2 Norway, Dallas Morning News, Infoglobo, team from Ferag AG and its subsidiary Ferag Suomi The Hindu, The Globe and Mail, RSI and many Oy in order to take full account of the wishes and more. needs of their customers,” says Seppo Lahti. CCI is provider of editorial and advertising solutions for multimedia news environments. CCI AdDesk, CCI NewsGate and CCI NewsDesk products are Total upgrade in the most robust and powerful systems in the industry, St Galler Rheintal and are implemented in news organizations across five continents. Under Südostschweiz Partner AG, five publishers Vizrt provides real-time 3D graphics and asset from the Rheintal Principality of Liechtenstein, management tools for the broadcast industry - from Grisons, Sarganserland and Glarus Regions, and award-winning animations and maps to online also Werdenberg and Obertoggenburg operate publishing tools. Vizrt's products are used by the a joint printing centre in Haag in the St Galler world's leading broadcasters and publishing houses, Rheintal. In the past seven years, Ferag technology including: CNN, CBS, Fox, the BBC, BSkyB, Al has been in operation with some components Jazeera, ITN, ZDF, Star TV, Network 18, TV Today, being more than 30 years old. The time had come CCTV, NHK, The Globe and Mail, Times Online, to change to new technology. In seven conversion The Telegraph, and Welt Online. phases, it was replaced by two Ferag inserting lines equipped with FlyStream and the latest MultiDisc periphery. Opting for dependability, In the postpress processing system the new and Ferag RollSertDrum-M will be up and running for the
Dependability is the one attribute that I-print Oy managing director Seppo Lahti associates with Ferag technology. He points to the mailroom system, which has coped with routine production conditions for all of 15 years. Despite the resilient technology, an update was on the cards, and a few months ago the stacking system dating from 1998 was replaced with modern MultiStack technology. The compensating stackers are fully integrated into the existing technical structures incorporating the TTR conveyor system. The compatibility of the Ferag system from one generation to the next meant The new RollSertDrum-M has a third infeed for one preprint in that modernisation could be focused precisely where addition to the connections for the main product and the FlyStream it was really needed; investment could be kept as low pre-collecting line.
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first time. Compared with its smaller sisters, the service. In addition, the change of name signals the inserting drum is equipped with a third feed for long-term commitment to the customers there. “It a preprint in addition to the connections for the is our goal to continually strengthen our presence in main product and the FlyStream precollecting line. Brazil,” explains KBA sales director Jan Drechsel. As a further new component, a transfer circulator Deltagraf took over all sales and service activities links two independent UTR conveyors and enables for KBA web presses in Brazil six years ago, and the product stream to be assigned to two different added sheetfed presses in March 2009. The company processing steps during the conveying process. In has since been very successful in both segments. The the Haag printing centre, the transfer circulator newest KBA subsidiary will also offer service support is integrated into the line downstream from each to printing firms in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and inserting drum. Accordingly, it is possible to take Paraguay. In July 2014, Koenig & Bauer do Brasil will either newspapers without inserts or finished take part in Expoprint Latin America in São Paulo products after they have passed through the presenting cutting-edge printing technology. RollSertDrum, and transport them directly to the winding process or bundling. In the specifications, such flexibility had equal ranking with the option Mark Oggero to oversee to run inserting production in online and offline mode. Goss global operations Goss International Corporation KBA acquires majority has announced that Mark Oggero has joined the company as stake in Deltagraf senior vice-president of Global Operations. In his newly created Since the beginning of September this year, position, Mark will oversee Goss’s Koenig & Bauer AG has acquired its own sales global manufacturing operations. Mark Oggero has and service subsidiary in Latin America's largest joined the company He will focus on further integrating market with the majority stake in a former sales as senior VP of and improving Goss’s worldwide agency Deltagraf Representações Comerciais ltda. Global Operations. production of simple, easy to use in São Paulo, Brazil. The new Brazilian subsidiary and cost-effective technology for operates under the name Koenig & Bauer do Brasil. the company’s global customer base. This follows the foundation of KBA Latina SAPI “Mark’s appointment is another key step in Goss de CV based in Mexico City in August 2012 for the International’s transformation,” says Rick Nichols, markets Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, president and CEO of Goss International. “With his Peru and Bolivia. 28 years of manufacturing experience and knowledge KBA aims to expand its position in the growth of a range of industries, Mark will accelerate the market Brazil with this investment in sales and centralisation of our global supply chain and continue our strategy of diversification into new product areas like packaging.” Oggero earned a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial engineering. He has 28 years of experience within low- and high-volume manufacturing industries, a strong international background and expertise in change management. Goss International supplies presses and finishing systems – including the most automated and productive web offset presses in the world – for At the beginning of September, KBA deputy president Axel Kaufmann magazine, newspaper, catalog, packaging, direct (r), Deltagraf managing director Luiz Caesar Dutra and KBA sales director Jan Drechsel (l) announced the foundation of Brazilian sales mail and other printing applications. Headquartered subsidiary Koenig & Bauer do Brasil. in Durham, New Hampshire (USA), the company
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has manufacturing operations in North America, security press business which has slowed since the Asia and Europe and a worldwide sales and support previous year also contributed to this decline. To 30 network. September sales of web and special presses came to €348.5m, around two-thirds of the prior-year KBA scales down figure of €520.8m. Insufficient capacity utilisation at KBA web press facilities and a smaller earnings expectations contribution of special presses reduced operating result after nine months from €40.2m in 2012 to Koenig & Bauer, the world’s second-largest press –€2.9m. manufacturer, has scaled down its expectations for Despite strong sales in the fourth quarter typical 2013. Although previous restructuring measures for the industry, KBA management expects lower are taking effect, in the first nine months KBA’s annual group sales of around €1.1bn compared to sales and order figures suffered substantially due last year (€1.29bn). Revenue of web and special to market and economic developments. The presses will fall further behind last year than management now seeks to improve earnings by sheetfed presses. advancing the realignment of the group. By the end of the year KBA thus expects negative impacts from restructuring expenses and impairments, the exact 14-day tour through amount of which is currently not quantifiable. The Greater China company, which has a broad portfolio of sheetfed, web, special and digital press lines addressing diverse Koenig & Bauer took to the road informing print markets, is particularly feeling the effects of printers of the latest sheetfed offset trends in the significantly reduced market volume for web the printing industry as part of the seventh KBA presses. In addition, business with sheetfed offset road show through China in the first half of presses and systems for banknote printing was more October. Main topics at the six events in Tainan, restrained than expected. Taipei, Dongguan, Kunming, Ningbo and Taiyuan In the third quarter the volume of new orders in included inline finishing technologies for packaging the KBA Group was 7.4% up on the corresponding production, migration-free printing as well as the figure for 2012. For the whole nine months, introduction of the KBA RotaJET 76 digital web however, order intake at €709.6m was 14.1% down press, the medium-format Rapida 105 sheetfed on the prior-year figure boosted by drupa (€826m). offset press and the new large-format Rapida 145 Additionally, postponed special press shipments led and Rapida 164 press series. A further highlight to a 20.3% drop in group sales to €729.9m compared at some event locations was the presentation of to the previous year (€916.2m). Group order backlog the 19-unit Rapida 106 with inert curing and cold- of €627.7m at 30 September was also lower than 2012 (€735.5m). Due to the shortfall in sales and restructuring expenses the operating result came to –€10.7m in comparison to +€18.9m last year. Including a financial loss of –€5.6m, KBA posted a pre-tax loss (EBT) of €16.3m. In the first nine months of 2012 the company showed a profit of €10.8m. Group net results stood at –€20.2m (2012: +€4.5m), which corresponds to earnings per share of –€1.22. Despite KBA’s strong position in newspaper printing and the first orders for the new digital press, new orders in the web and special press fell 18.5% to €251.1m, compared to €308.2m in 2012. Along The printing samples brought from Europe were the subject of great with investment reluctance of web printers, the interest in China.
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foil finishing capabilities at Amcor in Rickenbach, Switzerland. The press is unique the world over. As in previous years, once again printing houses opened their doors as part of the road show to enrich theory with practical demonstrations. Participants were treated to a live demo of a seven- colour Rapida 105 with coater and UV capabilities at Yunnan Junhe Printing Company. Ningbo Beike Packaging Company invited guests to see its new Rapida 145 in action, the first large-format press of this series in China. The printing firm received the press which was showcased at China Print in May. The highly automated five-colour press with coater predominantly prints packaging and displays. Along with Jürgen Veil, key account manager packaging at KBA and a well-known speaker at the road shows throughout China, Andreas Hatzelmann from KBA sales, Lianbiao Wang sales manager at Schur felt a positive mood at this year’s World Publishing Expo in Berlin. KBA China and Andreas Friedrich general manager web sales and service(North/East Asia) were also makes the concept also from the environmental on hand to present the latest innovations from point of view very interesting for the publisher. An KBA. environmentally friendly production, where paper, ink and resources are saved and a reader copy that exactly meets the needs of the subscriber! The BERLIN WORLD EXPO advantages are obvious.” Also in terms of design Schur presented some news at the World Publishing Expo. In addition to Interest for Schur the A955 high-speed inserter, Schur exhibited its innovations new designed pick-up station PUC3201. Both units are characterised by a small footprint and compact Schur Packaging Systems welcomed at this year’s design. That allows easy integration into any type of World Publishing Expo a steady stream of visitors mailroom. Not least the ease of use as well as low to its stand. Schur’s motto, ‘The newspaper as high- maintenance is a big advantage. value product’, caught great interest among the Schur’s CEO Niklas Grandin drew a positive numerous visitors. balance after the three days in Berlin. “Over the “Raising the consumer targeting performance is last years Schur Packaging Systems has undergone a a big issue for all publishers and printing houses,” number of significant changes to adapt the business explains Per Bækgaard, operation manager at Schur to the changed conditions of the printing market. Packaging Systems. ”With Nova Dimension plus, This applies of course to our product portfolio but our state-of-the-art feature for intelligent high as well the company structure. Now, we have passed speed inserting, we have taken the pulse of the time. these changes and are well equipped to meet future To target the contents of each single copy, converts challenges. We look forward to new and exciting a newspaper to a unique carrier and a high value projects, where we can continue to provide customers product, just reaching the right target group. This with innovative and flexible solutions as well as long makes the final product much more attractive for term service and support.” the reader, but it also helps the printing houses to increase their revenues and reduce their costs,” says Bækgaard, adding, “The fact that the subscriber can choose the contents of its newspaper itself
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BERLIN WORLD EXPO the newly launched Cromoman 4-1 and the highly manroland posts automated Colorman e:line system. The Colorman successful show e:line 50 is known as a premium system for high- volume printing. With 100000 copies an hour, it is the fastest newspaper press in its class, offering top printing quality and outstanding automation. The new Colorman e:line 45 is ideal for medium-sized print runs and features excellent printing quality combined with automation tailored to customers’ requirements. Having proved successful in India, the flexible and compact Cromoman 4-1 now offers even greater flexibility and more substantial profits for users around the world. Its larger web width of 1600 mm makes it the most flexible 8-page press worldwide and an attractive option for markets with larger newspaper formats and a wide range of production hall dimensions. Students from HMKW Berlin were fascinated by the way touchscreen Visits to the Axel Springer company at the Spandau technology and mobility were integrated into the system control. Manuel Printing House organised by manroland web systems Kosok, head of Project Engineering & Product Management proved to be very popular with customers and printnetwork at manroland web systems, explained the automation features. experts.
Media entrepreneurs, publishers and print experts KBA AT PAMEX 2013 caught up on the latest technologies and service products offered by manroland web systems. At the press conference, manroland web systems created Rapida 75, MBO folder win an excellent impression with the announcement of a new level of service for the future. manroland over Indian printers web systems GmbH, traditionally well-established in the service area, and SEM Servicegesellschaft KBA and its cooperation partner MBO once again für Elektrik und Mechanik GmbH will collaborate shared a stand at the Indian trade show PAMEX in in the German-speaking countries. The contracts Greater Noida from 14 to 17 November. This follows were signed at the World Publishing Expo. Eckhard the premiere of MBO folders on the KBA stand at Hoerner-Marass, managing director of manroland Pack Print International in August in Bangkok. KBA’s web systems, described the main advantage for Indian agency Indo-Polygraph Machinery was also customers at the press conference: Customers on hand for extra support. Visitors at the show were choose a single contact person from two strong treated to live print demonstrations of a four-colour companies and receive double the expertise, including SEM’s decades of service experience and manroland web systems’ highly specialised know- how. Permanent improvements, retrofits, and upgrades of printing presses are commonplace today, and crucial to maintaining a competitive edge. The new operating system in newspaper and commercial printing has been very successful for manroland web systems with 24 systems sold worldwide since drupa 2012. Of course, this also applies especially to KBA presented a four-colour Rapida 75 equipped with an M80 folding the very latest in newspaper presses and technology: system from partner MBO at Pamex.
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KBA Rapida 75 equipped with an M80 folding system from MBO. The demos were well received by the visiting print professionals. High-quality postcards and posters which were printed live on a slightly larger Rapida 75 for a sheet size of 605 x 750mm (23.8 x 29.53in) were eagerly snapped up. The exhibition press was equipped, among many other features, with central format adjustment, non-stop facilities, CleanTronic blanket and roller washing systems as well as differential drives in the dampening units. The press has a The experts from KBA, MBO and Indian sales and service partner Indo-Polygraph Machinery were satisfied with the results of the four- maximum output of 15,000sph. MBO won over day trade show. print experts with its M80 folding system which was presented live for the first time to an audience India is a key growth region for KBA. The of Indian printers. The M80 is currently the most high-performance medium-format Rapida cutting-edge folder in its market segment due to its 106 in particular is proving very popular with modular construction and the possibility for it to be packaging printers. An example of this is the extended and automated further at a later date. MBO plinth-mounted Rapida 106 with two coaters for also presented two KL112.1 small folders from its Parksons Packaging. Further big packaging players subsidiary Herzog+Heymann. in the Indian subcontinent to place their trust in With its large population, above-average economic Rapida sheetfed offset technology include TCPL growth rate and huge number of printing firms, Packaging, Sai Packaging and ITC.
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values) and ErgoTronic ACR (register control). Rapida 105 for The data workflow between pre-press and press is Polygraph Print implemented via LogoTronic CIPLinkX. Following a period of relatively slow market Yaroslavl, part of the Golden Ring northeast development in recent years, over the past few months of Moscow, is one of the oldest and best known KBA has once again delivered several sheetfed offset cities in Russia. Located on the Volga, it has a long presses to Russian printers. These have been installed tradition in the graphic arts industry. One of the throughout Russia, from large industrial hubs to the youngest printing houses in Yaroslavl is Polygraph countryside, with many going to southern Russia. Print which up to now printed exercise books and The printing industry in southern Russia is already writing pads predominantly on technology from receiving further orders in the run-up to the Winter local manufacturers. Commercial products were Olympics in 2014 in Sochi. Growth in demand is then added to the firm’s portfolio. A new Rapida expected to continue beyond 2014. 105 with five inking units and coater has been in operation in the company’s brand-new press room New HP solutions for since September. The new medium-format press is equipped for print providers UV mixed operation enabling the production of covers, has additional packages for handling board HP has announced upgrades, certifications and and foil, and is mounted on a 450mm (17.7in) workflow solutions for its large-format sign and plinth. Further distinctive extra features include ink- display portfolio, helping print service providers temperature control, CleanTronic Multi combined (PSPs) grow their businesses and explore new blanket, cylinder and roller washing for alternating markets. In recent years, many large-format print ink systems, CleanTronic UV (facility for blanket shops have transformed their business models, washing with UV lamps in standby mode to offering new high-value applications and seeking eliminate waiting times before and after washing), to avoid commoditisation. The transformation has EES (Emission Extraction System) in the delivery been driven by technology advances that help PSPs as well as VariDry IR/hot-air/UV dryers also in the move beyond sign and display to a diverse range of delivery and delivery extension. Two UV interdeck applications. No matter the market, clients increasingly dryers can be inserted at multiple docking stations demand high-quality output with faster turnaround in the press. Quality is controlled by ErgoTronic times, requiring PSPs to embrace the flexibility and ColorDrive (colour density measurement), versatility of digital to remain successful. ErgoTronic Lab (colour control according to Lab Helping PSPs create high-value retail and corrugated applications to help boost their bottom line, the HP FB225 Scitex Varnish Ink is the latest ink option introduced for the HP Scitex FB7500/7600 Enhanced Color Pack. The new ink allows HP Scitex FB7500/FB7600 Industrial Press owners to add spot or full varnish, create embossed text and images, as well as expand the colour gamut. Additionally, the integrated varnish ink helps protect against rubbing, scratches and water damage while creating cost and workflow efficiencies. The HP FB225 Varnish Scitex Ink is expected to be available worldwide on 1st November. The 3M MCS warranty, widely recognised as the industry's most comprehensive finished graphics The team from Polygraph Print with managing director Valery Piwovarov (4th left) and KBA sales director Sven Strzelczyk met to fire up the warranty, is now available for the HP Latex 881 Inks Rapida 105. and the HP Latex 3000 Printer when using approved
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“By enhancing our prepress workflow, we continue to pursue our goal of automating the production of our print products. OM portal will complement our existing workflow perfectly, adding features such as a page upload and preflight functions, as well as real-time customer releases and feedback,” says Andreas Bräuer, director of Prepress Production at MRM Medienservice Rhein Main. Integrating our customers to a greater extent makes our workflow more flexible, which in turn is an important prerequisite for processing commercial print jobs more economically. Apart from installing OM portal at the publishing The new HP FB225 Scitex Varnish Ink allows HP Scitex FB7500/ FB7600 industrial press owners to add spot or full varnish, create group, ppi Media will also supply new software embossed text and images, as well as expand the colour gamut. to the Gießener Anzeiger. From 2014 onwards, OM will be used there for output management, 3M films. Combining the quality and flexibility of which includes the RIP, merge, imaging and proof HP Latex Inks with the warranty, which covers functions. fading, cracking and peeling, the new offering helps OM portal organises, visualises and simplifies PSPs secure business with discerning vehicle and the planning and production of jobs for print fleet graphics customers without paying a premium customers in a single web application. Using OM for specialty inks. portal, customers can view their orders at the Compatible with HP Latex and Scitex printers printing house and then issue a planning release. and presses, the HP Scitex Caldera GrandRIP+ After a release, the PDF files are uploaded and the Software solution now includes Easy Media Module, data automatically checked and normalized. An Caldera's integrated International Color Consortium online soft proof is then created, where customers (ICC) profile builder based on Xrite i1Prism V2 can download both the check protocols and the technology. Caldera EasyMEDIA allows users to normalized print data. When the print data has create ICC profiles, creating a smoother workflow been checked, customers can then approve the with enhanced colour consistency across output. print data and release the commercial print job for printing. Banking on ppi Media prepress solutions Russian KBA subsidiary celebrates 10 For years, business with commercial print jobs has been extremely successful at Verlagsgruppe KBA RUS, KBA’s Russian sales and service Rhein Main. By commissioning ppi Media to install subsidiary, celebrated its 10th birthday in October. OM portal, the company, which is based in Mainz, The management of KBA RUS invited 70 Germany, will focus on customer integration, representatives from printing firms in Russia and automation and secure preflight workflows. This will Central Asia to Dresden in Saxony and to the reduce the workload on publishing staff, yet at the KBA plant in Radebeul. The formal celebrations same time enable more commercial print jobs to be took place at Lingnerschloss Castle in Dresden processed. In order to make the system landscape overlooking the river Elbe. Along with a tour of the more uniform, the publishing group has decided beautiful city sights, the guests learned more about to install the output management system OM at KBA’s cutting-edge sheetfed offset technology first its subsidiary, the Gießener Anzeiger. The entire hand at the plant during the three-day event. group will then be equipped with OM, which can be Ralf Sammeck, executive vice-president for the controlled from a central location in future. sheetfed product house, welcomed the visitors to
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Digital announced the programme to acknowledge the extraordinary work produced on Inca Digital printers. The IDEAs aim is to recognise the power of digital print and showcase the stunning effects that are possible using Inca Digital’s state-of-the-art UV inkjet technology. In the past two award events, Inca Digital has honoured a number of customers for exceptional work accomplished that reflect the wide range of impressive products that Inca customers are creating today. IDEAs judges are directed to evaluate entries based on a combination of quality, innovation and creativity across five different categories: Display An array of print samples was looked at in great detail by the visiting Graphics, 3D POS, Interior Decoration, Product Russian print experts. Decoration, and Interactive Displays. the KBA customer centre. Dirk Winkler, head of The five category winners will each receive an print technology, informed the participants on the IDEAs Trophy, travel to Munich, and two nights’ current trends in sheetfed offset as well as the latest accommodation to attend next year’s FESPA developments in drying technology. An array of Digital 2014 (20th-23rd May, 2014). FESPA Digital inline finishing options in UV and hybrid operation is the largest focused event for digital wide format were shown on a Rapida 75 during various live print print, staging 400+ innovative global brands and demonstrations. Other demos included the record manufacturers. Print services providers will have output of 20000sph on a Rapida 106 and Flying the opportunity to view new product launches, test JobChange with DriveTronic SPC on a ten-colour drive machinery and technology to service the print press from this high-tech series. market. It is a great opportunity for IDEAs winners The same poster was printed on both sides of a to view the latest techniques and applications. sheet on an eight-colour Rapida 105, on one side As an added incentive this year, award winners using a HR UV colour scale and on the other side will also be able to attend the Inca Digital Summit, with an LED UV colour scale, and dried with the concurrently held in Munich on May 20. Free for corresponding dyers. The visitors from Russia were Inca customers, the event will feature a number of able to thus compare the printing results produced speakers who will not only cover subjects related to with this new energy-saving process. Last but not print industry trends, but also a wider range of topics least, KBA presented high-quality finishing with cold covering macro-economic and retail developments. foil on a Rapida 106 equipped with two coaters. IDEAs winners will receive their awards in the Before starting their journey home, the guests evening during an event jointly hosted by Inca and saw two extra-large format Rapida 205s in action Fujifilm. at Ellerhold and visited the impressive Moritzburg Castle on the outskirts of Dresden. InPrint ambassadors for Inca Digital launches inaugural show
IDEAs 2014 The Industrial Print Show has launched its team Inca Digital launched its third Inca Digital of ambassadors ahead of the show in April 2014. Excellence Awards (IDEAs 2014), celebrating the Featuring the leading lights from the field of industrial creativity and ingenuity of the work its customers print technology, the InPrint ambassadors will play an produce around the world. At a press briefing during active role in the development of the InPrint Show SGIA Expo 2013 at Orlando’s Orange County and the promotion of the event to the manufacturing Convention Center, attended by both journalists and print sectors. They represent leaders from the and Inca Digital inkjet flatbed printer users, Inca specialty, inkjet and 3D print technology sectors,
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covering the range of differing industrial applications the market. Kodak Prinergy Powerpack Workflow’s that these technologies represent. automation and integration between various processes The InPrint ambassador list: Tom Cloots, Agfa; is excellent. One can pretty much customise anything Tim Phillips, Xennia; Alessandra Borghi, Kiian; Eric and everything that one wants to”, says Nikhil Warrier, Bredin, Stratasys; Oliver Beck, Thieme; Roberto executive director, Saptagiri Packaging. All these will Zinser, Canon; Graham Moore, Ricoh; Mark add to our customer base and bottom line, he adds. Alexander, Xaar; Mike Willis, IMI Europe; Mark Jasmine Art Printers, Mumbai wanted to reduce Hanley, IT Strategies; Frank Seemann, Neschen; manual intervention. Eliminate errors and improve Miles Bentley, Lumejet; Sophie Matthews-Paul, accuracy were their key challenge. Pramod Parulekar, Rockstro; Sebastien Hanssens, Caldera; Rob Haak, director, Jasmine Art Printers said "The present day Spikix; Mike Horsten, Mimaki; Jon Bultemeyer, printing concepts needs an efficient front end, so Marabu; Dr Rene Pankoke, Hymmen; and Lorenzo that we can get jobs to press with as little human Villa, 2bePartners, Italy. intervention as possible. We see Kodak as leading the way in connectivity between production processes using open file formats such as PDF and JDF. We Kodak helps enhance wanted to shift to thermal device and so the Kodak packaging production solution was considered. Due to automation the workflow is fast and accurate which has reduced Kodak packaging solutions have been a major manual intervention and errors. At the beginning enabler behind recent growth of many package stage of refining itself most of the problems are printers across the country. One of the most solved or highlighted.” profound packaging challenges today is dealing When Calcutta Security Printers, Kanpur wanted with continued packaging population growth to upgrade their existing infrastructure, it decided to due to an ever-growing demand for a new and consider only those vendors who offer them both varied packages, sizes, flavors and formulas to suit the hardware and the software. Says Vaibhav Bhargav, consumer demands. Calcutta Security Printers, “After we installed the Kodak Prinergy Powerpack Workflow automates Kodak CTP and the Kodak Powerpack Workflow, and streamlines labour-intensive processes, reducing the time to produce a plate has reduced by half. Our errors, waste and redundancy. It delivers outstanding customers are moving to shorter runs and faster performance and reliability, along with best-in- turnaround times and with the Kodak solutions we class productivity, connectivity and automation for have been able to meet their demands.” exceptional efficiency throughout the packaging production process. The software allows operators KBA, Vinfoil develop to handle complex jobs far more easily. It helps reduce costs and build a more efficient environment compact cold foil system with improved control and automation based on industry-standard specifications. The ColdFoil Infigo SF110 module has been an Saptagiri Packaging, Mumbai, serves the printed integral part of the KBA sheetfed offset product carton market. Quality and Timely delivery of plates range for a number of years. It is already in use in were the key issues for them "We were outsourcing print companies all over the world. Now, Vinfoil and our plate processing earlier. Our customers are now KBA have once again pooled resources to develop more demanding and we were unable to commit a trimmed-down version of their proven cold foil delivery time. With the in house installation of the system, the Micro SF110 GF. It has been conceived Kodak CTP and the Kodak Prinergy Powerpack as a simple-to-handle, compact alternative for high- Workflow, we are now able to process our plates quality foil transfer, with which the growing demand much faster. There is considerable improvement in for stylish product refinement can also be satisfied by quality and we are now able to meet our customer users on a tighter budget. expectations. We chose Kodak because its CTP The market for gloss foil transfer is growing. More technology is field proven and well established in and more brand-name manufacturers are looking
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A view of the ColdFoil Micro SF110 GF from the feeder side. for ways to lend their products an unmistakable, a slightly lower level of automation – offers the exclusive appearance – for example through the use same first-class quality, robustness and reliability as of metallic effects. Today, cold foil transfer is even the present system. The Micro SF110 is intended being used for brochures, as a means to help them for printers whose job structures require occasional stand out from the crowd. Cold foil is here able to production with cold foil refinement. play out a major advantage over hot-foil stamping, Rapida presses with the ColdFoil Micro SF110 GF as inline production on an offset press is more module are fitted with a crane for handling of the efficient and thus cost-effective. They run at higher full and empty reels. This allows reel replacement speeds, even shorter runs become profitable, and no without physical effort. The remote control unit for expensive tools are required. opening and closing of the shaft locks also renders The cold foil module ColdFoil Infigo SF110 has an additional walkway superfluous. Accessibility to been a product of choice on the market for gloss the inking units is not restricted in any way. offset foil transfer for several years. Packaging The lightweight tensioning and friction shafts are printers all over the world have integrated modules driven by a servo motor and were selected specifically into their Rapida sheetfed offset presses to realise for the Micro SF110 GF. They are especially simple high-quality foil applications inline. Many are using to handle. Print companies acquainted with the the system on a daily basis, and that at top printing heavy shafts typically encountered will immediately speeds up to 18000 sheets per hour – performance appreciate the difference. The servo drive permits which definitely merits a world record for this type extremely exact synchronisation of the foil web to of finishing. the running speed of the press. Combined with There are numerous print companies, however, the modern technology for web tension control, who would like to offer gloss foil transfer, but do not this ensures efficient production. have enough corresponding jobs to work with cold foil every day. With the Micro SF110 GF, KBA is now able to offer such users a perfect solution. The new cold foil module is a compacter, space-saving version of the ColdFoil Infigo SF110 which – with
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Top-level press freedom justify their own repressive actions,” Peyrègne added. mission to UK The delegation will arrive in London in January An unprecedented top-level press freedom and will include publishers and editors from five mission is being sent to the United Kingdom by the continents. It is expected to meet with government world’s press freedom organisations in response and opposition leaders, press industry figures, civil to recent actions by the British government. society organisations and others. The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) –- will lead the Kenyan president urged to halt international delegation of concerned publishers and editors to halt continued attacks on press punitive media law freedoms in the country. Legislation set to introduce severe financial WAN-IFRA has previously conducted press penalties for breaching code of conduct; new law freedom missions to Ethiopia, South Africa, Libya, could gag press in the name of national security. A Yemen, Tunisia, Mexico, Honduras, Ecuador, proposed new media law in Kenya risks imposing Colombia, Guatemala, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, severe financial sanctions against journalists, Myanmar, and many other countries, but this is publishers and broadcasters for breaching a code the first such mission to the United Kingdom. of conduct, and could even bar journalists from The announcement of a press freedom mission working. coincides with the biennial Commonwealth Heads In a letter to President Uhuru Kenyatta, the of Government Meeting in Sri Lanka, where press World Association of Newspapers and News freedom will be high on the agenda. Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and the World Editors Vincent Peyrègne, CEO of the Paris-based Forum urged the Kenyan leader to reject the new WAN-IFRA, the global organisation of the law and called on him to address mounting press world’s newspapers and news publishers said: “A freedom concerns during his speech at the African press freedom mission to the United Kingdom is Media Leaders Forum, currently taking place in the unprecedented and we cannot underestimate our Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. “We are seriously concern for what is happening. It is rather difficult concerned that the proposed law could be used for the United Kingdom to lecture Sri Lanka and to gag the press under the pretext of protecting others about their press freedom record, when its national security in the wake of the September own actions result in such widespread international attack on the Westgate shopping mall,’ said the condemnation.” letter from WAN-IFRA. The mission is a direct response to recent On 31 October, the Kenyan parliament voted actions widely seen as contrary to press freedom to establish a Communications and Multimedia guarantees: government interference in the Appeals Tribunal to draw up a code of conduct for regulation of the independent press, through the the press. The Tribunal would have the power to Royal Charter and associated legislation, but will impose fines of up to 20 million Kenyan shillings also include discussion of the criticism of The (about US$ 234 000) on offenders, as well as Guardian for its coverage of the revelations from prevent journalists from working. The bill would former US National Security Agency contractor also introduce strict controls on broadcasters, with Edward Snowden. “We are concerned that these radio and TV stations obliged to ensure that 45- actions not only seriously damage the United percent of programme content and advertising is Kingdom’s historic international reputation as a locally made. staunch defender of press freedom, but provides As a member of the Pan-African Parliament, encouragement to non-democratic regimes to Kenya is signatory to the Midrand Declaration on
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Press Freedom in Africa which draws on a variety works together to create a vibrant and sustainable of African protocols, articles and declarations, press.” including Article 9 of the African Charter on The IPI and WAN-IFRA team met with more Human and People's Rights and WAN-IFRA’s than 25 editors, journalists, lawyers, politicians and Declaration of Table Mountain, which calls for bloggers as well as associates of the imprisoned greater press freedom in Africa. journalists. The delegation also held meetings with the ambassadors of Austria and United States; a senior African Union official, an Ethiopian lawmaker; Call for release of jailed and Redwan Hussien, minister, Government journalists Communication Affairs Office, who engaged in a frank, two-hour discussion with the delegation and Two leading international media organisations the members of the African Media Initiative. IPI today called for the unconditional release of and WAN-IFRA hope that the meeting with imprisoned Ethiopian journalists and pledged Hussein is the beginning of constructive dialogue to join forces to help improve the working and on critical press freedom issues in Ethiopia. legislative environment for news media, during a Regrettably Prime Minister Hailemariam joint press freedom mission to the country. The Desalegn’s office did not respond to repeated International Press Institute (IPI) and World requests for a meeting. But in an address Association of Newspapers and News Publishers before delegates of the African Media Leaders’ (WAN-IFRA) urged the government to release five Forum, Desalegn said his government has journalists imprisoned under the country’s anti- plans to increase the capacity of all elements terrorism laws, and to immediately review statutes of the media and are encouraging the media to that have also been used to convict opposition establish its own self-regulatory mechanisms. politicians. “There is always room for improvement and as a The joint appeal from IPI and WAN-IFRA developing country, we are open to suggestions capped four days of discussions with journalists, on improving our media industry,” said Desalegn, lawyers, media executives and members of the making no mention of the jailed journalists Ethiopian government and the African Union IPI/WAN-IFRA were not granted access to the ahead of the African Media Leaders Forum imprisoned journalists. (AMLF) taking place in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa. “Article 29 of Ethiopia’s constitution defends French journalists’ killing in the right to free expression and exchange of information and we urge the government to make Mali stuns press sure that it upholds these rights,” Alison Bethel The World Association of Newspapers and News McKenzie, executive director of IPI said in Addis Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and the World Editors Ababa. “While we commend the government for Forum expressed outrage at the kidnapping and its efforts in improving the lives of its people, we brutal murder of Radio France Internationale stand firm on the belief that a free press will not journalists Ghislaine Dupont and Claude only contribute to these efforts, but are crucial for Verlon, and called for the killers to be brought to economic development and a democratic society. justice. To that end, I implore the government to show its The horrific incident took place on Saturday, 2 commitment to defend press freedom and release November in the remote northern Malian town those journalists it has jailed without condition.” of Kidal. The veteran journalists were on special Tomas Brunegård, WAN-IFRA president, said: assignment two weeks ahead of legislative elections “Our organisations would like to see independent in the country, when armed men abducted the pair publishers cooperate to develop a strong publishers as they left the house of Ambeiry Ag Rhissa, a association that promotes self regulation and local official of the MNLA ethnic Tuareg separatist
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group. Sources said four men forced the journalists Declaration of Human Rights to which the UK is a into a truck that was then driven off into the signatory. It is a core belief in the Commonwealth surrounding desert. Their bodies were discovered Charter which Britain inspired. Free speech and only a few hours later, abandoned at the side of a freedom of expression have throughout the 20th road and showing evidence of multiple gunshot and 21st Centuries therefore been at the core wounds. of Britain’s international commitments, of its WAN-IFRA calls on the Malian authorities to leadership of the free world, and of its international ensure prompt and thorough investigations into reputation as a liberal democracy. the killings and to guarantee the safety of all “Yet all that is now in danger. No one should citizens, including journalists, particularly ahead be in any doubt that the proposed Royal Charter of local elections. WAN-IFRA is encouraged which politicians are forcing Your Majesty to sign is, by reports that an operation has already been despite the camouflage, in reality a set of repressive launched to identify and locate the perpetrators statutory controls being imposed on the press and urges maximum cooperation between Malian against its will. That should not be the function of and French authorities to ensure terrorism does a Royal Charter.” The letter said the Charter would not silence journalism. not only have an impact on press freedom in the Ghislaine Dupont, 51, had covered African news United Kingdom, but would be used by repressive for RFI for more than 25 years, reporting from regimes worldwide to justify their own control across the continent. She spent ten years reporting of the press. “The actions of Britain’s Parliament from the Democratic Republic of Congo before will be used as an excuse by those who want to being deported ahead of presidential elections in muzzle the press in their own country and stifle 2006. Her continued reporting on the DRC led the free flow of information – and there are many to RFI being banned from the airwaves in the governments who would love to do so,” the letter country for over a year. said. Claude Verlon, 58, was a gifted sound engineer The letter was signed by the following members and seasoned reporter who had worked with of the Coordinating Committee of Press Freedom distinction across a number of dangerous beats Organisations: Commonwealth Press Union Trust, including Afghanistan, Libya and Iraq. The Worldwide Magazine Media Association (FIPP), the Inter American Press Association, the International Association of Broadcasting, the Queen urged to reject Royal International Press Institute, the World Association Charter of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), and the World Press Freedom Committee. A group of leading global press freedom and The proposed Royal Charter on Self Regulation media organisations have written an open letter to of the Press – a misnomer, since it is part of several Queen Elizabeth II asking her to reject a proposed proposals growing from the Leveson inquiry that Royal Charter that would impose repressive would impose statutory regulation of the press – statutory controls on the British press. “For raises serious questions about the future direction more than three centuries since Britain abolished of independent press regulation. The industry the last set of statutory controls on the press in has described it as being neither voluntary nor 1695, the United Kingdom has been a consistent independent, with some fearing it gives politicians champion of the most crucial freedom of all - too much power. Reports suggest that since Lord freedom of expression – and a beacon of liberty Justice Leveson’s inquiry into press behaviour, as across the world,” said the letter, signed by seven many as 59 journalists have been arrested under international media organisations. three separate police investigations. None have “Freedom of expression was central to the been convicted and many have spent months on European Convention of Human Rights which police bail. Britain helped draft. It is part of the Universal
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Summit focuses on engaging editor, submitted his resignation. The existing editorial arrangements for Business Line, Frontline, youth with news Sportstar, and The Hindu (Tamil) will continue News executives who believe their organisations unchanged and the process of professionalisation, must do a better job of engaging young people now involving a mix of shareholder-directors and will meet in Poland in December to explore how other professionals, will continue. best to go about it, with a focus on what works now and what the industry needs to do for future Hindustan Media net up 15% success. At stake is not only the future health of the news Hindustan Media Ventures has recorded a 7 per business, but of democratic society as well. The cent rise in its total revenue for the second quarter Youth Engagement Summit is dedicated to helping ended September 30 at Rs 1782 million from Rs newspapers and news publishers encourage 1667 million in the corresponding quarter of last a new generation to identify, understand and year. Advertising revenues for Q2 FY14 are up 11 appreciate credible, quality journalism in the sea per cent to Rs 1270 million from Rs 1147 million of information that characterizes today’s world. primarily due to increase in advertising yields and “No matter what business models we devise or volumes. The company has also seen a 15 per digital wizardry we invent, it will all be for naught cent increase in circulation revenues to Rs 446 if we do not pay smart attention, right now, to million from Rs 387 million primarily due to higher youth,” said Aralynn McMane, executive director realisation per copy. for Youth Engagement and News Literacy at the EBITDA has increased by 18 per cent to Rs World Association of Newspapers and News 425 million from Rs 361 million primarily due to Publishers (WAN-IFRA), the organiser of the growth in advertising and circulation revenues. event. “People who will come to this conference Growth is partially offset by 7 per cent increase in are dedicated to this concept, and are looking for consumption of raw materials to Rs 706 million the next ‘how’. The Youth Engagement Summit from Rs 661 million due to increase in newsprint & Workshops, set for 2 to 4 December in Warsaw, price and 4 per cent increase in employee costs to Poland, will provide lessons from this year’s World Rs 216 million from Rs 208 million. Profit after tax Young Reader Prize winners, along with insights has gone up by 15 per cent to Rs 249 million from from global experts who will share successful Rs 217 million. strategies for connecting effectively with the Hindustan Media Ventures prints and publishes young. Hindi daily Hindustan, children’s magazine Nandan and general interest magazine Kadambini. The company also operates the news website Changes at the helm at Livehindustan.com. The Hindu N. Ravi has taken over as editor-in-chief of The DB Corp ad revenues up 17% Hindu, and Malini Parthasarathy as editor of The DB Corp, which has flagship newspapers Dainik Hindu. Arun Anant is no longer the chief executive Bhaskar, Divya Bhaskar, Dainik Divya Marathi and officer of Kasturi & Sons Limited, the company Saurashtra Samachar in its stable, has announced its that owns and publishes The Hindu Group of financial results for the second quarter and half publications. year ended September 30. The group’s consolidated N. Ram has become chairman of KSL and advertising revenues grew by 19 per cent to publisher of The Hindu and Group publications; Rs 6744 million in the first half of FY 2013-14, and N. Murali, co-chairman of the company. The as against Rs 5688 million in the last year under decisions were taken by the board of directors review. Consolidated total revenues have increased of the company at its meeting on Monday. In by 17 per cent to Rs 8958 million, from Rs 7638 consequence, Siddharth Varadarajan, the former million in the previous year. Consolidated PAT
42 RIND Survey December 2013 Other News margin stood at 15 per cent, at Rs 1363 million, business too reported growth of 11 per cent in registering growth of 48 per cent on year-on-year total revenue and robust improvement in EBITDA. basis. Consolidated revenues from advertising There was 28 per cent increase in core radio revenue reported a growth of 17 per cent year-on-year to to Rs 205 million from Rs 160 million in Q2 FY13, Rs 3297 million in Q2 FY14 from Rs 2826 million while EBITDA was up 72 per cent at Rs 59 million in Q2 last fiscal. Total revenues have shown a from Rs 35 million in the corresponding quarter of growth of 16 per cent year-on-year to Rs 4418 the previous fiscal. During the second quarter, HT million in Q2 FY14, as against Rs 3823 million of Media offloaded its 51 per cent stake in HT Burda Q2 of last fiscal. Media, a joint venture with Burda Druck GmbH, PAT stands at Rs 602 million (margin 14 per completed on September 30, 2013. The resultant cent) in Q2 FY14, as compared to Rs 486 million gain on divestment stood at Rs 382 million for HT in the corresponding quarter of last fiscal, showing Media at a consolidated level. growth of 24 per cent. Advertising revenues from the group’s radio business have expanded by 14 per cent to Rs 175 million in Q2 FY14, as against Jagran Prakashan's Q2 net Rs 154 million in Q2 of last fiscal. Radio business slides 27.9% achieved PAT of Rs 19 million (11 per cent Jagran Prakashan has reported operating revenues margin) in Q2 FY14, while the EBIDTA stood at at Rs 413.73 crore in Q2 FY14, up 10.27 per cent Rs 56 million (32 per cent margin) in Q2 FY14. from Rs 375.20 crore in the corresponding quarter in the previous fiscal. Advertising revenues for the HT Media Q2 net up 75% second quarter ending September 30, 2013 were up 9.87 per cent at Rs 284.21 crore as against Rs HT Media has reported an 11 per cent growth in 258.69 crore in Q2 FY13. Circulation revenues for total revenues in Q2 FY14 at Rs 5916 million from Q2 FY4 stood at Rs 89.92 crore, up 14.77 per cent Rs 5353 million in the corresponding quarter of the from Rs 78.35 crore in the second quarter of the previous fiscal. Profit after tax was up 75 per cent previous fiscal. Profit after tax stood at Rs 45.57 at Rs 582 million, as compared to Rs 333 million crore in Q2 FY14, as compared to Rs 62.76 crore in Q2 FY13. The growth was due to a 6 per cent in Q2 FY13. increase in advertising revenues of print segment to Rs 3868 million in Q2 FY from Rs 3640 million, primarily driven by increase in advertising yields Mathrubhumi innovates with and volumes. The growth was also supported by 14 per cent increase in circulation revenues of print augmented reality segment to Rs 642 million from Rs 563 million in TELiBrahma Technologies and Mathrubhumi the same quarter in FY13, driven by increase in have joined hands to bring a new way for readers realisation per copy. to interact with the Malayalam newspaper. With EBITDA higher by 50 per cent to Rs 1213 million a readership of about 65 lakh, Mathrubhumi will in Q2 FY14 from Rs 809 million, primarily driven be the first newspaper from Kerala to launch an by growth in advertising and circulation revenues, augmented reality application. Front page news, and increase in other income mainly due to Burda sports news and global news are augmented in stake sale (Rs 382 million) and Hindustan Media the first phase. Mathrubhumi Insight, powered Ventures stake sale (Rs 86 million). by TELiBrahma, is available for readers from HT Media’s digital business continued to report November 1, 2013. buoyant performance for the Q2 FY14, with 34 By integrating augmented reality, Mathrubhumi per cent increase in revenues from the digital will be able to bring interactivity to static print segment to Rs 178 million from Rs 133 million pages with video overlays, slideshows, social in Q2 FY13. Shine.com registered revenue growth media connect, links to download content and so of 78 per cent in Q2 FY14 over Q2 FY13. Radio on, and emphasise the importance of connecting
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print publications with digital engagements Forbes Media on lookout through mobile. “Mathrubhumi Insight brings another dimension to printed content through for buyer a combination of augmented reality and visual Another old print bastion is on the verge of a recognition technology. The application enables sellout. According to various media reports, Forbes us to deliver multimedia content through our print Media, which publishes the Forbes magazine, is products, thus making the reading experience seeking a buyer. The company is expecting $400 wholesome, interactive and exciting,” says M.V. million from the sale. Shreyams Kumar, director, Marketing & Electronic Founded in 1917 by B.C. Forbes, Forbes magazine Media, Mathrubhumi. is among the most powerful names in business journalism and is best known for its annual billionaire PCI National Awards and power lists. According to media reports, in a mail to the Forbes staff, Michael Perlis, CEO, Forbes announced Media had stated that the company has received The Press Council of India has announced “more than a few ‘over the transom’ indications of winners of the National Awards for Excellence interest to buy Forbes Media”. Incidentally, Perlis in Journalism in different categories comprising a is the first non-member to run the Forbes family- citation and specified cash award. owned 96-year-old business magazine. Santosh Kumar of India Today, New Delhi and According to a Bloomberg report, Forbes has C.K. Sivanandan of Malayala Manorarma, New Delhi hired Deutsche Bank to represent the company have been given a joint award in the category of in the sale and expects interest from “numerous Raja Ram Mohan Roy for investigative journalism; suitors”. A New York Times report quoted a person they will receive Rs 50000 each. Manu Pubby of familiar with the sale process stating that Forbes The Indian Express has been given a certificate of Media is expected to generate at least $400 million Creative Excellence with cash prize of Rs 25000 from the sale. Meanwhile, Time Inc is being touted in the same category. as among the potential buyers for Forbes after Upmita Vajpai of Dainik Bhaskar, Bhopal and Forbes Media executives were seen at the Time Sebin S.Kottaram of Malayala Manorama, Kottayam, headquarters. have been jointly chosen for top honour Stree Shakti Award. They will be given Rs 25000 each, Ananda Vikatan to innovate apart from the citation. Sudipto Das of The Times of India, New Delhi, with 3D issues and P.N. Pandey of The Indian Express, New Delhi, As Ananda Vikatan gears up to enter its 86th have been given joint awards in the category of year in the Tamil publishing space, the group has Photo Journalism (single news picture); they will planned to come out with six consecutive 3D issues be given Rs 25000 each. to mark the occasion. This is not the first time that J. Suresh of Malayala Manorama, New Delhi, and the group is experimenting with 3D issue; Ananda Subhash Paul of Rashtriya Sahara, New Delhi, have Vikatan had launched its first 3D edition in June been given joint awards in the category of Photo 2005. Journalism (photo feature); they will also be given The group is investing close to Rs 2 crore in the Rs 25000 each. creation and promotion of the 3D issues over the Arif Aziz, editor of Nadim, Bhopal and Ahmed next six weeks. Readers will be provided with 3D Ibrahim Alvi, chief editor of Aag, Lucknow have glasses along with the magazine issues. However, the been given joint awards in the category of Urdu cover price of the magazine will remain unchanged journalism. They will be given Rs 25000 each, for the special editions. Ananda Vikatan, which along with the citation. currently prints 4 lakh copies of the magazine,
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plans to increase the print run for the 3D issues in Express, Rajan worked as senior assistant editor at anticipation of a surge in demand. the Mumbai and Pune desks for almost six years. Meanwhile, Ananda Vikatan has been conducting He has also worked with Hindustan Times for over events across Tamil Nadu in a bid to engage its five years. readers. Currently B2C and B2B campaigns are underway, with print, television and outdoor ads in the pipeline. The 3D issues will also be promoted IPAMA team to continue on social media and as well as the group website, The 24th annual general meeting of the Vikatan.com. Indian Printing Packaging & Allied Machinery Manufacturers’ Association (IPAMA) was held in September with K.S.Khurana chairing. The Malcolm Mistry joins DNA members were of the unanimous view that the as CEO existing team should continue for the next term, 2014-16. With a couple of prestigious events lined Malcolm Mistry, who had quit India Today up for IPAMA in 2014, it was decided not to elect Merged Entity (ITME) as publishing director in a new team. Thus, K.S. Khurana will continue as January this year, has joined DNA as CEO. He the president, C.P. Paul as general secretary, and will report to Group CEO Bhaskar Das and the J.S. Kalsi as treasurer. The other office bearers will board. Mistry’s stint with the India Today Group remain the same. lasted over 18 years. During his tenure, magazines such as India Today Spice, India Today Home, India Today Woman, India Today Aspire, and Robb Report Workshop on Understanding were launched. At India Today, Mistry oversaw integration of sales force activities and for all the Role of India’s Military the language editions of India Today, its business Sixteen journalists participated in a workshop publications and Reader’s Digest. titled, Understanding the Role of India’s Military, conducted by the Press Institute of India and the Institute of Contemporary Studies Bangalore at the Hartosh Singh Bal quits Open Christ University, Bangalore on October 30-31. Hartosh Singh Bal, political editor of Open The star attractions were Nitin Gokhale, magazine has announced he is stepping down. NDTV’s Security & Strategic Affairs editor and The reason, gathered from industry reports an authoritative defence analyst; retired major- and his tweet, is that he was unsatisfied with general Dhruv C. Katoch (SM,VSM), who had the management. His departure was preceded taken part in the IPKF operations in Sri Lanka as by the publication of an article in the magazine also operations against terrorists and insurgents in sharply critical of both Narendra Modi and Rahul Jammu & Kashmir and various states of Northeast Gandhi. India; Colonel M.B. Ravindranath, a Kargil War hero who led with great distinction the 2nd Battalion of the Rajputana Rifles to breakthrough Rajan joins Express as digital victories in the Battle of Tololing (12/13 June) head and Battle of Three Pimples (28/29 June); and lieutenant general Ramesh Halgali (PVSM, AVSM, Nandagopal Rajan has joined the Indian Express SM), former director-general of Military Training Group as editorial head – Digital. This is his and later promoted as the deputy chief of army second stint with the Group. Rajan moves from staff at the army headquarters. the India Today Group, where he was associate Other speakers included Vice-Admiral (Retd) editor, Business Today and India Today Gadgets & R.N. Ganesh, Group Captain (Retd) A.K. Sachdev. Gizmos. Wing Commander (Retd) K.T. Sebastian, and Prof Rajan was with the India Today Group for one Arvind Kumar. year and 10 months. In his first stint with theIndian
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December 2-4, organised by January 17-18, organised by March 16, organised by the Smithers Pira, in London: Digital BAPC, in London: Printing Newspaper Association of America, Print for Packaging Europe. Industry Conference. More details in Denver: NAA mediaXchange More details at http://www. at http://www.bapcconference. 2014. More details at the NAA printfutures.com/home.aspx co.uk/index.htm website
December 2-4, organised by January 25, organised by IPAMA, March 19-20, organised by WAN-IFRA, in Warsaw, Poland: in Noida, UP: After-sales Service. WAN-IFRA, in Munich: Printing Youth Engagement Summit More details at http://ipama.org Summit 2014. More details from Europe. More details from aralynn. [email protected] [email protected] February March 20, organised by December 3, organised by European Flexographic Industry Smithers Pira, in London: The February 5-6, organised by Association, in Bolton, Greater Print Summit. More details at WAN-IFRA, in Chennai: Digital Manchester: Awards Gala Dinner http://www.printfutures.com/ Media India. More details from 2014. home.aspx [email protected] March 24-29, in London: Ipex December 10-11, organised February 11-17, organised by 2014 – Discover the Power of by WAN-IFRA, in Chennai: The Centre for Internet & Society, Print. More details at http://www. Readership Workshop. More in Pune: Institute on Internet ipex.org details from selvaprabu.s@wan- and Society. More details from ifra.org [email protected]
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