Heidelberg India organises an open house in Coimbatore

Heidelberg India in alliance with Sree Maruthi Printers organised an open house on 31 August (Friday) in Coimbatore at which a China assembled Heidelberg Speedmaster SM74 press was demonstrated live to the printers from across the country.

20 Sep 2012 | By Rushikesh Aravkar

Highlighting the productivity of the press, Dr Thilak Kumar, managing director, Sree Maruthi Printers, said, “At an average, 50 jobs are produced and two million business cards are printed and delivered in a day.”

At the event, three makereadies with stock ranging from 125gsm to 350gsm were carried out to demonstrate short makeready times, high productivity and versatility of the press. One of the highlights of the demo was a 350gsm packaging job running at 15,000iph and within the next ten minutes, the press was producing a 150gsm commercial job.
 
After the open house, Heidelberg India also conducted a seminar titled as Hei Productivity i at Grand Regent Hotel on the same day.
 
Venkataraman Ganesan, regional sales manager, Heidelberg India, said, “Sustaining growth in a competitive environment is one of the major challenges faced by any printing industry today. Heidelberg has the solutions to overcome this aggressive business trend and help printers remain competitive.”
 
Udo Fiebiger, regional business manager, Heidelberg Asia Pacific, presented the press solutions from Heidelberg, particularly the SM 74 offset press assembled in Heidelberg’s factory in China.
 
Peter Rego, general manager-sales, Heidelberg India and Saseendran Baskaran, assitant general manager-sales, Heidelberg India, were the other speakers at the seminar
In the last session of the seminar, printers were exposed to various finance options available, enabling them to procure latest technologies.
 
"The Coimbatore market has grown in the past few years at a fast pace especially with the emerging industries like real estate, label, textile and FMCG. Printers in Coimbatore are more conscious about the quality printing and we have many printers like Shree Maruthi, Kalaikathir Achagam, Hi-tech Offset, Ace data and Chromaprint, pioneering the adoption of brand new state-of-the-art equipment from Heidelberg," concluded Ganesan.
 
 
Caption:  (From left) Thilak Kumar (managing director, Shree Maruthi Printers) with Udo Fiebiger (regional business manager - Heidelberg Asia Pacific), Peter Rego (general manager - sales, Heidelberg India) and Venkataraman (regional sales manager, Heidelberg India).