TRADE NEWS SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2014 5 Economic Daily gets manroland UNISET China’s leading business newspaper, The Economic Daily, has recently in-vested in two new manroland UNISET press lines. The Economic Daily, a publication under the responsibility of the Communist Party of China with a circulation of about 800,000 copies per day, plays an important role as a bridge between the government and the Chinese enterprises. It ambitions to be-come one of the most influential and biggest economic newspapers in the world. It has 60 offices in China and more than 20 offices abroad. The Economic Daily Group consists of nine newspapers, five magazines and of two publishing houses. . Moreo-ver, a Central Internet Portal, a Printing Factory and an own Business School belong to the successful Chinese group. A leader in priting quality The Economic Daily printing factory had been founded in 1983 and is currently leading the printing quality committee of the Chinese Newspaper Association. It has 220 employees and produces an annual print volume of 100 million sheets (broad-sheet). At the printing site, 30 newspapers titles and periodicals are printed such as - besides Economic Daily - China Population News, China Business News, Entertain-ment News and Beijing Morning Post. The newly constructed building of Economic Daily is designed with fifteen floor levels above ground and three underground floors. All printing equipment will be in-stalled in underground. The decision for the German manroland web systems` high-speed, full color single width double circumference UNISET press with a speed of 80,000 copies per hour was made by a tender process based on common interna-tional tender principles. The two new presses will replace several old presses and are expected to go into production in September 2015. 176x122+3Papers.indd 1 22/08/2013 11:35 Daily Thanthi improves print performances The Daily Thanthi Group has achieved significant time and waste savings at five sites of its leading Tamil-language newspaper, following the installation of QuadTech’s Register Guidance and Ribbon Control systems. Improved print quality is also credited with contributing to increased circulation and readership. Established in 1942 with a mission to educate and create awareness among all sections of the Tamil community, Daily Thanthi today is a full-colour broadsheet news-paper printed in 16 locations with a circulation of more than 1.5 million and an esti-mated readership in excess of 7 million. “Until the installation of the QuadTech register and ribbon systems with Multi- Cam, we were measuring colour and colour register manually,” says Mr. S. Balasubra-manian Adityan, Daily Thanthi Director. “The biggest challenge came when the num-ber of colour pages increased; it was very difficult for operators to control register on our high-speed, double width and double circumference presses.” “The installation of the QuadTech systems benefits us in five ways, says Adityan: we can shorten make-ready times, reduce start-up waste, achieve consistent colour, and optimize labour and press usage, while also contributing towards a better prod-uct and increased readership,” he said. “We used to face a challenge with variations in register after each auto-pasting cycle, says Adityan. Since installing the systems, we have seen a 20% reduction in the time taken to achieve good register, and a 10% reduction in waste. Our ability to maintain consistent colour throughout the run has also increased, giving us better overall quality.” (L-R): V. Balakrishnan, QuadTech Regional Sales Manager; R. Chandrasekaran, Daily Thanthi Chief General Manager; S. Balasubramanian Adityan, Daily Thanthi Director; S. Subrmanian, QuadTech Service Engineer; D. Ranganathan, Asst General Manager. A new face for ppi in India ppi Media is expanding its worldwide network of ex-perts and now has further assistance for the Indian mar-ket: Basis Systems, headed by its founder and CEO Gopal Krishnan, is the German software developer’s new partner. Indian leading publishers such as The Times of India, Hindustan Times and Sakaal have been using ppi Media’s workflow software for over 13 years. India is today one of ppi Media’s fastest growing and most important markets. “To intensify our activities in India, we are offering small and compact solutions that are particularly suited to the requirements of medium-sized publishers, a market that Gopal Krishnan knows extremely well, said Gerhard Raab, Senior Vice President International Sales at ppi Media. We therefore believe that this cooperation will ena-ble us to access smaller publishing houses as well as corporate publishing.”
Asian Newspaper Focus 09/10_2014
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