Udaipur-based Miraj Multicolour has put in a Heidelberg Speedmaster CX 102 7+Lx3 UV combi printing press at its 300,000-sqft print manufacturing facility. That is the corporate’s fourth Heidelberg press within the final 20 years, with three machines coming within the final seven years.
Miraj Multicolour was established in 2001 by Madan Paliwal, chairman of Miraj Group, with the core concept to supply high quality printed merchandise to numerous segments like paperboard packaging for meals, FMCG, liner cartons, metPET cartons, and industrial printed merchandise with their its companies.
At present, Miraj serves as a printing home with printing and packaging options from pre-press to post-press, with the manufacturing capability of 20 to 25 million cartons per day and train guide capability of three.50 lakh per day.
KG Sharma, director, Miraj Multicolour, who’s with group since 2001, stated, “We had been outsourcing our jobs despite the fact that our plant was operational with 100% capability. So, we determined so as to add one other machine with greater functionality. Heidelberg has been our most popular companion since our institution in 2001. Heidelberg is a extremely dependable companion in our development, and we’re getting glorious after-sales companies from its staff in India.”
Sharma famous that below the management and imaginative and prescient of the Group chairman Madan Paliwal, the corporate is on the expansion monitor. “The second technology of the household owned enterprise, vice-chairman Mantra Raj Paliwal, expedited our decision-making course of and we might finalise the machine shortly,” he stated.
Sharma added, “The CX 102 combi press can course of substrates from light-weight paper, labels to inflexible board at a most velocity of 16,500-sheets per hour, 50% decrease makeready time with autoplate, distant connection for evaluation and provides an especially operator-friendly course of. With glorious help from Heidelberg service staff, the set up commenced on time even in the course of the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic.”
The UV system is equipped by IST. The brand new press provides the potential to course of UV jobs, and other than the present shoppers, the corporate will focus subsequent on the liquor business. With the addition of this press, the corporate will now have 21 Heidelberg printing models of 28×40-inch and its capability might be elevated by 30%. It consumes round 1,500 printing plates per 30 days.
Miraj Multicolour converts round 2,000 tons of paper, board and kraft per 30 days with a staff of greater than 400 in 24x7x365 operation. Sharma stated the corporate is rising at a CAGR of 20%.
Peter Rego, enterprise head gross sales, Heidelberg India, stated, “We’re very excited with the brand new CX 102 set up at Miraj. Staff Miraj is doing a superb job with the present battery of Heidelberg presses, and with the brand new CX 102, we’re positive Miraj will obtain new heights, which is ably headed by KG Sharma below the steerage of Paliwal. We’re proud to be their companions during the last 20 years.”
Together with the brand new press, the corporate has additionally ordered Novacut 106E model 3.0 die-cutter and Ambition 106 A2 folder-gluer from Bobst. “Proper now, we now have 4 die-cutting machines from Bobst and Eterna and three folder-gluers from Bobst. The brand new folder-gluer is supplied with a helpful pack. Bobst is the proper answer to satisfy elevated capability by including a brand new printing press,” Sharma stated.
A number of months again, the corporate additionally opted for a completely computerized lamination machine from Zhongke India. Additionally, it finalised N & B flute machines with high-speed flute laminators. Presently, the corporate has E-flute line with flute laminators.
Within the final three years, the corporate has invested greater than Rs 30-crore in equipment and growth, Sharma concluded.
