India’s top print firms deploy PUR for books
PUR has gained traction in India with big ticket installations of the Welbound-Henkel PUR solutions. This includes the award-winning book printer, Jak Printers in Mumbai, and Pragati Offset.
14 Nov 2013 | By Rushikesh Aravkar
Aspi Forbes of Jak Printers, said, “We wish we had PUR years ago. We spent sleepless nights, planning to manually bind the designer books.” Jak Printers installed a Welbound PUReBIND Ultra CF with automatic set-up and inline cover feeding, in March this year.
Some of the key names with PUR in their armoury include Pragati Offset, Parksons Graphics, Jak Printers, Repro India, Replika Press, Akruti, Avantika Printers, and Art Printing House.
Akruti has installed Pune’s first PUR perfect binder manufactured by Welbound Worldwide earlier this year. Girish Rao of Akruti said, “Adopting PUR was a significant milestone for us. Having the right partners - Henkel and Welbound, was absolutely essential.”
Kolkata-based Art Printing House has also recently invested in PUR binder. Pramod Jain, of the firm, said, “We are pioneering the PUR technology in east India, and it was important to have partners who did the handholding.”
In September 2011, Pragati Offset installed the RobaPur 4 MOD system on its Kolbus. The retrofitting of the applicator was done by Welbound. Narendra Paruchuri of Pragati, said, “With PUR, we can play around with a vast range substrates and employ a gamut of print finishing operations - and still bind the book.”
Endorsing PUR, M N Pandey of Avantika, who installed single-clamp PUR binder in 2012, said, “Digital print is all about the end-product. At Avantika, where we thrive on innovation and experimentation Welbound and Henkel’s PUR solution is a great help.”
Welbound and Henkel will jointly showcase PUR solutions at their stand which is themed as: The possibilities with PUR are unlimited.
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