Ferag has scored two more south Asia mailroom orders, matching press expansion with new conveyor/stacker systems.
For Wijeya Newspapers in Sri Lanka, the investment is its first in mailroom automation. A new UTR Universal conveyor and MultiStack stacking have been configured to provide the most direct route from a newly-installed 45,000 cph press, and allow future expansion with ‘added-value’ elements to be added.
The company publishes more than 14 daily and weekly newspapers and magazines in the three national languages – Sinhala, Tamil and English – with an overall circulation of more than a million copies. Rising circulations have been particularly strong in the case of the Sunday newspapers.
Indian giant HT Media has just installed two new additional presses in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradash, to share in the 2.3 million daily production of its Hindustan Times and Hindustan.
The 80,000 cph TKS Color Top 5100UDI presses join three others at the centre – one of 21 across the subcontinent – and feature a system to allow two different products to be printed at the same time.
At both folder deliveries newspapers are gripped and transported using the UTR Universal conveyor to MultiStack stackers on each line. Bundles sealed and cross-strapped, with an underwrapper and inkjet printed top sheet. Both lines have also been equipped with an application module to apply MemoSticks to the front page of the newspapers.
Pictured: Wijeya Newspapers director Sujan Wijewardene and Hokandara complex assistant general manager Janaka Rathnakumara