Welbound celebrates Anil Krishna's contributions to the Indian print industry

Anil Krishna is a well known adhesive technology specialist and is famous for his technical presentations. "We decided to request him to present the latest technology trends in bookbinding. Can there be a better way to organise a send-off for him?" said Sanjeev, the chairman and managing director of Welbound group.

P Sajith, Welbound's director of marketing and sales said, "When we started our business, there were huge challenges in meeting the customer requirements in perfect binding. Anil Krishna has a huge contribution in brining in the right product mix and application know-how that made adhesive binding the preferred method."

A number of printers, across the country, who are interested in PUR bookbinding technology, were invited to the presentation by Anil Krishna in Thiruvananthapuram. Welbound organised a factory visit followed by the curtain raiser on their new, yet to be launched products.  A series of perfect binders with varying speed, configurations and gluing options were demonstrated.  Welbound has developed a number of options for hotmelt and PUR application. These products will be hitting the market in the coming months.

Demo of various Welbound products were organised in the nearby customer facility. This included the Wohlenberg Lucro with sprinter gatherer. A  WB 3600 - 12 clamp binder specially designed for cover pasting and side stitched books using 'water based adhesive', attracted some of the textbook printers present in the group.

Anil in his presentation discussed the major issues related to failure in bookbinding, these according to him are:
(a) inability to bind high quality printed books with heavy inking and over coating
(b) books bound with HMA failing in extreme climatic conditions and
(c) the so called safe bet : thread sewing being a time plus space consuming operation leading to escalations in cost. According to him the only solution is PUR binding. Their participation was full of zip with questions like ideal conditions, type of applicators, type of jobs and costing related to PUR adhesives were discussed. 

Anil Krishna was accompanied by a team from Henkel Adhesives India, led by its chief executive officer Jeremy Hunter. The printers who participated in this event were glad that attended this meet in Thiruvananthapuram. "We had a great time at Thiruvavnathapuram, learning more about book binding and machines in general. The presentation by Anil Krishna was highly informative," said Asif Shaik of Nectar Prints Mumbai. 

"In the coming months in Thiruvandnathapuram, we will hold more focused sessions related to bookbinding technology and business," said Sanjeev.