A look at Manugraph's manufacturing site
Manugraph is one of India’s largest manufacturer of web offset presses. The ISO 9001:2008 certified company has two highly automised ultra modern manufacturing facilities in Kolhapur. Spread across an area of 1,30,000 sq/mts with over 1200 employees, Manugraph currently has over 6,700 units worldwide. Their market share in India is over 70% for web offset machines.
Words: Anand Srinivasan
Photographs courtesy: Manugraph India
01 Aug 2014 | By Anand Srinivasan
A complete Smartline press (double width with press speed of 70,000 cph)
View of roller cells in the machine shop
Folder former infeed under testing
A fully assembled book line feeder
The M360 single width, single circumference, 4 x 4 tower
M360 with integrated auto-paster
View of M360 tower. M360 is a single width, single circumference press with a speed of 36,000 cph
Super structure of the slitting/ draw rollers and turner bar of Smartline press
View of the M360 unit assembly. On an average, Manugraph's Kolhapur plant manufactures 10 towers per month of Cityline and M360 combined
Double width Autopaster, model 4550
The assembly line for folders
Cityline unit with integrated auto-paster
Fully assembled Smartline press ready for despatch
Cityline press unit under assembly. An other unit above this would make one tower
Five-face machining Centre
Gear testing facility in the QC department
Three dimensional co-ordinate measuring system for the quality control of machine parts
Deep hole drilling machine for drilling larger depth holes in the printing cylinders and blankets
Multi-axial machining centre for machining of housings and ink ducts, folding cylinders. The machine from Deckel Maho has vertical and horizontal axis support
Turn-mill centre for final stages of polishing and milling of printing cylinders and blankets
Variable axis machining centre for components having complex profiles