The Indian Express orders two
NEWSTECH counter stackers
for mailroom system
The post-press setup of
The Indian Express in
Navi Mumbai will no longer
be the same anymore. The reason
is that the newspaper has recently
ordered two new NTTS 300
programmable counterstackers
from NEWSTECH
for their mailroom system. The
groundbreaking update in its
mailroom setup will speed up the
newspaper’s overall operation
from press to loading dock.
NEWSTECH has confirmed orders
of two NTTS 300 programmable
counter stackers for mailroom
system from The Indian Express for the
newspaper’s new 6 Towers, 2 Folders Hi-
Line presses equipped at their production
plant located at Mahape in Navi Mumbai.
The national daily chose the post-press
systems over the others available in the
market because of their previous experience
with IDAB Wamac Systems, a renowned
Swedish manufacturer of mailroom
systems and a technical collaborator of
NEWSTECH.
Since the year 2003 NEWSTECH has been
manufacturing NTTS 300 programmable
counter-stackers for newspaper mailroom
systems in close tie-up with IDAB Wamac
Systems. BR Tipnis, senior general
manager–production, The Indian Express,
Navi Mumbai, mentioned that they have
chosen the Newstech mailroom systems
as they have been using three IDAB
Wamac Stacker Systems for about thirty
years since 1989, which are still running
without wear and tear in the newspaper’s
Mahape production setup.
Express spotlight
The Express Group, publishers of its
flagship national daily The Indian
Express, over the last 75 years has been
synonymous with excellence in journalism
and commitment to fairness. Of course,
The Indian Express has bagged numerous
prestigious awards, among which is the
‘India Award for Outstanding Journalism
in the Public Interest’ given by Viennabased
International Press Institute.
With a wide network of editions across
the country, The Indian Express and the
group’s business daily The Financial
Express are published from all major
Indian cities including New Delhi, Mumbai,
Bengaluru, Kolkata, Pune, Chandigarh,
Lucknow, Jammu and Chennai. In Mumbai,
the group publishes Loksatta, a leading
Marathi daily, which is also available in
Hindi as Jansatta.
NTTS 300
Responding to the need of affordable
technologies by medium and small
size newspapers in Asia, NEWSTECH
entered into joint venture manufacturing
programmes for mail room system
equipments with IDAB Wamac Systems.
And the company boasts its highly
demanded NTTS 300 counter stacker,
designed for compact stacking for high
productivity. Of course, NTTS 300 is a
compensating stacker with a compactly
designed take-up conveyor with dump
gate and stream aligner. The system
is developed to utilise the floor space
to an optimum level and it is easy to
connect to the press folder with its
wheels enabling easy movement before
and after production.
NTTS 300 is designed to handle different
product dimensions, formats and in-feed
directions, such as open edge leading,
up to a press speed of 60,000
copies per hour. The unique takeup
conveyor of the stacker can
handle newspaper copies gently
without smearing or wrinkling.
Most of all, NTTS 300 is the basic
unit in the newsroom system as
it can be further expanded with
different modules, like plastic
wrapper, under wrapper, strapper
and conveyors for transport of
bundles. So, NTTS 300 provides
users the freedom to expand
and adjust mailroom to any
changing needs.
In addition, NTTS 300-based
mailrooms combine simplicity
with automation. The stacker
produces standard bundles in
accordance to a pre-sent value.
And using a bundle production
control (PRO 4000), bundles
weighted with newspaper
copies in sequence can be
produced. In the process, order
data is downloaded from the
newspaper distribution system
to PRO 4000.
Now that The Indian Express has set
to equip with a couple of NTTS 300
programmable counter stackers, things will
move smoother than ever in the post-press
activities of the newspaper, in conveying,
inserting, strapping, loading, so on. NTTS
300 stackers have been a proven success
at many regional and national newspapers
across India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and
recently Russia.
