PR Packagings – automation, diversification and professionalization

Faridabad-based PR Packagings installed a brand new 7-color Heidelberg CD 102 plus coater with both interdeck and end of press UV curing, in January 2016. This is the first Heidelberg installed by the company, and its second multicolor coater full UV press. PR installed a 6-color Mitsubishi 3000 with full UV plus coater in May 2008. The new highly configured Heidelberg press comes with online ink density checking, a large wall screen monitor on its control console that features automation options such as Pressroom Manager and the Prinect Press Centre with remote ink control. “With the new press we expect to increase our print volume by 300 to 400 tonnes a month,” says Ravinder Gupta, managing director of PR Packagings. Prior to the installation of the new 7-color press, the company printed approximately 500 tonnes of board each month. According to Gupta, the automation features of the new Heidelberg press will deliver a significant increase in productivity as well as better transparency to pressroom operations. “I hope to reduce the makeready times and manage the…

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