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Anil Bhatia (47) is looking forward to bringing new momentum to increasing manroland’s growth in India. He will be taking over as managing director of this manroland Market Organization starting in September 2010, as the successor of Raj Nargis, who is going into retirement.

The new managing director Anil Bhatia has more than 25 years of international experience in the marketing and sales of investment goods. Mr. Bhatia studied Engineering and also completed a postgraduate degree in Business Administration. He is married and has a son and a daughter.

Anil Bhatia says: “My new team and I want to continue manroland’s successful history in India. This is why we will be offering our customers the exact products and services they need to prosper in a competitive field that is oriented towards growth. We stand by our customers as a professional partner to assist them throughout the entire service life of their presses. I am truly looking forward to this new challenge.” manroland is present in the Indian market since decades. In 2007 manroland opened its own subsidiary in India with headquarters in New Delhi and offices in Mumbai a ...

The Wallpaper* Handmade issue features unique designs for furniture, fitting, foodstuffs, fashion and much more. From cover to cover, Wallpaper* Handmade is a complete celebration of craftsmanship. Through working closely UPM, the issue also includes an A5 sketchbook documenting how several of the designs evolved. There is even a paper house to cut out and assemble, courtesy of architect Ryuji Nakamura.

UPM's Head of Magazine Publisher Sales for the UK, Dino Vasiliou, said: "Being offered a creative opportunity with such a renowned magazine is extremely exciting for UPM. This has allowed us to see the whole process rather than just paper supply – a unique experience."

He added: "We're delighted with the finished magazine. The feedback we've received already from the market is really encouraging. Working on such a creative and sometimes challenging project has been extremely rewarding."

Wallpaper* Editorial Director Richard Cook summed up the experience: "The whole ethos of this issue is about handmade qualities, buying something that's lasting and has real provenance. It's really important that people feel something when the ...

• Jump in orders for both sheetfed and web presses 
• Higher level of capacity utilisation 
• Return to full-time work at most plants 
• Good liquidity, no net debt 
• Outlook: sales of €1.1bn-plus and higher pre-tax profit 

Following the release of preliminary figures on 20 July revealing a perceptible upswing in the print media industry and a year-on-year increase in new orders of almost 39%, German press manufacturer Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA) has now fleshed out the details in its half-yearly report. Compared to the same period last year group sales were up 4.5% at €473.2m and the pre-tax loss was slashed from €47.4m to €22m, €21.3m of which originated in the first quarter, when sales were still weak. From these figures it can be seen ...

In order to provide the solid support and premium services for customers in South East Asia, manroland made it a point to place two experienced printing experts in manroland Malaysia, the headquarters of manroland South East Asia region in Kuala Lumpur: Peter Bähr as Service Manager for Malaysia and Singapore, and Sascha Renye as Lifecycle Manager printservices.

Peter Bähr has 27 years experience in the printing industry. He joined manroland as Service Manager for the Region Malaysia and Singapore on 1 June 2010, with the main responsibility to structure and globalize manroland services further into the South East Asia Region and to provide prompt, professional, efficient, and cost effective services for all our customers.

Sascha Renye joined manroland headquarters Germany in January 2007 as Area Services Manager responsible for after sales solutions, training, support, and structuring the Western European market. Now Sascha Renye takes on the new post of Lifecycle Manager printservices, which is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, providing his strong support in the South East Asian Region. Sascha Renye will leverage his rich experience fr ...

The PrintCity Alliance, a grouping of over 20 independent suppliers to the global printing & packaging industry, has announced a partnership with ABRO, the Associação Brasileira de Empresas com Rotativas Offset. 

This cooperation was first communicated at an Expoprint news conference in São Paulo recently. PrintCity members Sun Chemical, manroland, UPM, Cofely and partner Dalim are hosting a web offset session on Technical Visions of the Future of Print during the August 18 Annual Conference of ABRO, the Association of Web Offset Printers in Brazil.   According to Eduardo Gândara Costa of Abril (President at ABRO), this new partnership offers Brazilian web offset printers unique access to latest process knowledge. He commented, “We are happy to connect ABRO’s in depth knowledge in the web offset market in Brazil with the technical expertise from PrintCity Alliance Members. It will bring many benefits to Brazilian printers. For instance, we plan to translate many of the leading PrintCity reports into Portuguese and offer them to our members.”   Tilson D. Casteluci, Commercial Di ...

PrintCity members manroland, Sun Chemical, UPM, Cofely, Eltosch, Kurz plus alliance partner Dalim are presenting at a Sheetfed Printing & Packaging all day seminar in São Paulo, Brazil on August 19.

This first PrintCity Alliance event on Benefits and Technologies for Value Added Printing in Brazil will be presented jointly with ABIGRAF (The National Association of the Graphic Industry) through their Grupo Empresarial de Embalagem – GE-EMBA, plus with SENAI Graphic Arts School.    Under the PrintCity Alliance headline PRINT: LEAN.GREEN.SEEN. these companies will discuss Value Added Printing and Packaging applications.    The format for the August 19 PrintCity seminar will be short presentations on these topics, followed by group discussions with the audience. Samples of good practice will be used to generate visitor discussion, knowledge sharing and learning under the umbrella of the PrintCity connection of competence. &nb ...

Right in time for the busy year-end production season in late 2010, the first ROLAND InlineFoiler Prindor in Southeast Asia starts up in Jakarta.

Fascinated by the possibilities that the cold foil enhancement process offers, President Commissioner Welly Bolung decided in favor of manroland once again. A six-color ROLAND 700 HiPrint with coating module, extended delivery, and a ROLAND InlineFoiler Prindor supplements the machinery at Indonesia Printer where some manroland presses are already installed. The company is regarded as a technology leader and creative trailblazer in Indonesia. Welly Bolung about the added value the new printing system provides: “We have always invested in the latest technology. With the ROLAND InlineFoiler Prindor we are able to further improve the quality of our existing product portfolio and also open up completely new markets. This benefits us and our customers in equal measure.”

Showing what they can do
In order to promote the new technology in advance, Indonesia Printer organized a large symposium in Jakarta at the end of July. This involved having the company’s new b ...

Würzburg/Munich. In a collaboration project with ClimatePartner, Koenig & Bauer AG is the first printer manufacturer to offer environmentally minded customers an individualized and easy-to-use solution for calculating the greenhouse gas emissions generated by printing production runs.

KBA was one of ClimatePartner’s early industry partners. The two companies have been working together since 2008. Effective immediately, KBA will be offering their own online platform in co-operation with the environmental protection consultancy out of Munich. Printing shops can use the platform to calculate the CO2 emitted in their printing production runs, which could then be neutralized by participating in certified climate protection projects.

Printing shops registering at www.climateneutralprinting.com/kba an enter data relevant to emissions and obtain the information on their printing shop’s individual carbon footprint, enabling them to henceforth print in a climate neutral manner. Furthermore, knowing a printing shop’s carbon footprint is the starting point for making improveme ...

With effect from 1 July 2010, the sales team of the newspaper division at Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA) has been able to welcome Alexander Huttenlocher (42) as new KBA sales director for Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria and parts of Eastern Europe.

Alexander Huttenlocher is successor to the long-serving sales director Rudolf Kühner, who took his well-earned retirement in December 2009 after 46 years with the company.

In Alexander Huttenlocher, KBA has secured the services of a recognised print technology expert with an outstanding reputation not only in the German newspaper branch, but also in many other countries throughout Europe. After graduating with a degree in mechanical engineering, he completed a postgraduate course in business economics and gained first experience in technical sales for the print industry. From 2000 to 2010, Alexander Huttenlocher then assumed management responsibilities at Wifag GmbH in Leinfelden-Echterdingen, the German sales subsidiary of Swiss press manufacturer Wifag Maschinenfabrik AG, which tottered in 2009 in the wake of market developments. ...

• 150th Heidelberg printing unit with rainbow device goes to Russian security printer in a Speedmaster SM 102
• Special rainbow printing application now available for all Speedmaster formats - including the Speedmaster XL 105
• Security printing of banknotes, security paper, passes, check cards, and stamps

A Russian print shop specializing in security printing has received the 150th printing unit with rainbow device in their new Speedmaster SM 102 six-color UV press from Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg). Rainbow printing allows simultaneous processing of different inks in a single ink fountain.

The rainbow device features a special knife-type ink fountain, individually adjustable ink distribution, and ink separation in the ink fountain. The different inks combine in a single ink fountain to produce controlled fine lines on the sheet. The resultant vignette within the print motif is key to security printing. ...