Vinayak boosts production with India’s first Komori LSX 629
Rajkot-based Vinayak Offset, which installed India’s first Komori Lithrone LSX 629 six-colour press with coater+IR+HUV, has said that the new acquisition has helped push its production from around 22-25 jobs to 35 jobs per day., Press Room
27 Apr 2016 | 6476 Views | By Noel D'Cunha
The LSC 629 fitted with a KHS-AI and host air base, was installed in February this year, by New Delhi-based Insight.
Hemang Shah, managing director at Vinayak said, “The 16,000sph press is a high-configured kit with features such as auto register, blanket and cylinder wash, plate loading and inking, among others. All this has helped us increase our production by one and half times and has also allowed our operators to concentrate on preparing the next job.”
Established in 2009, Vinayak Offset is perhaps one of the youngest print companies in Rajkot to make it big. The company began with a Heidelberg SM-74 and a year later installed a Suprasetter, which the company claims is India’s first developer-free hybrid platesetter.
Vinayak specialises in commercial printing jobs with a focus on UV printing.
“I have always believed that technology adoption is a way towards growth, but maintenance and following best practices is a way to sustain that growth,” said Shah. The company has a maintenance chart which is followed scrupulously every fortnight.
Besides production, Shah said the features mentioned above has reduced wastages and labour cost, as well as deliver the perfect colour tones even during job shifts. “We are now running more efficiently and delivering quality output. We hope to add a crore or two to our present turnover of Rs 7-crore in this fiscal.”
Vinakay operates from a 18,000 sq/ft site in Rajkot and has an employee strength of 50, which includes sales staff.