Sudeep Bhattacharjee appointed
as new MD at manroland India
Ambitious
future
plans drawn to
reinforce wider
local market
presence
It’s the crack of a new dawn at manroland India as the company
has appointed a new MD, Sudeep Bhattacharjee, sitting at the
wholly-owned subsidiary of manroland web systems GmbH in New
Delhi. ALL ABOUT NEWSPAPERS talks to the new India head
in presence of Jörn Gossé, MD, manroland web systems and Timothy
Ruth, VP-sales, manroland web systems, Augsburg, finding out their
policies and strategies to undertake under the new head in India.
Jörn Gossé, Sudeep Bhattacharjee, Rekha Sharma and Timothy Ruth
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In the year 2003 manroland
web systems marked its
first presence in the Indian
market. “Getting closer to our
customers anywhere in the
world is our main objective,”
says Jörn Gossé, explaining
further that the company’s
business relationship based
on partnership can be best
realised with a local branch.
“By appointing Sudeep
Bhattacharjee, we are
reinforcing our local presence on
a major market and continuing
to support our customers with
innovative solutions in web
offset printing, and trendsetting
products for digital workflows
and post-press in industrial
digital printing,” he adds.
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Sudeep Bhattacharjee, for more
than eight years, had managed
the entire newspaper production
of the New Delhi edition of The
Times of India in the capacity
of assistant vice president.
Before that he held a leading
management position at ABP
Group in Kolkata and Business
India Group in Mumbai.With
his wealth of experience in the
field of newspaper and related
printing parameters, Sudeep is
now gearing up to accelerate
manroland web systems to a
new stride.
India being a country where
the printed newspapers, unlike
in the European and American
markets, are now constantly
gaining growth momentum
in the regional domains with
gradual increase in circulations
of Hindi and vernacular editions
as well as launches of new
titles. In this, Jörn Gossé feels
manroland web systems will
come out with suitable presses
designed for the requirement
of small or mid-size newspaper
houses which require machines
configured for production of
36,000–45,000 cph.
“Of course, the Indian newspaper
market is currently expanding
towards tier II and III cities.
I hope this regional domain
is affluent and promising for
new business,” asserts Sudeep
Bhattacharjee. For newspaper
printing, manroland web systems
boasts a complete portfolio of
COLORMAN e:line, GEOMAN,
UNISET, CROMOMAN 4-1
and 2x1. Of them, Timothy
Ruth says CROMOMAN 4-1 is
the right choice for the Indian
newspaper market. The company
has installed two CROMOMAN
4-1 presses in two separate
production setups of The Times of
India in Pune and Kolkata; and
latest being the one at Namasthe
Telangana in Telangana.
On the commercial web printing
side, manroland web systems
has widely demanded versatile
LITHOMAN and ROTOMAN
presses. About this domain
in India, Jörn Gossé observes
growth, but not in a full pace
yet. Commercial presses in the
company’s existing portfolio
consist of ROTOMAN,
EUROMAN and LITHOMAN,
which are suitably engineered
presses for books, magazines,
catalogues and related items in
such categories.
Retrofitting and relocation
services are vital activities of
manroland web systems all over
the globe. In India, the company
has reconfigured printing towers
at the production setups of The
Times of India in New Delhi
and Mumbai. In one of the
landmark relocation projects,
two GEOMAN towers from the
newspaper’s Mumbai production
facility were moved to their
setup located at Sahibabad in
Delhi NCR; and the existing
GEOMAN press also upgraded
to include six towers.
Another revolutionary venture
of manroland web systems is
in the ‘digital’ arena where
the company has closely tied
up with Hewlett Packard (HP),
Kodak and Canon that use
manroland finishing systems,
FoldLine and FormerLine, to
produce newspapers, magazines
or glued book blocks churned
in a customised way on the
digital presses in offset print
quality. Technically, FormerLine
runs for batch production, which
means the finishing system
can produce different titles or
editions automatically without
pushing the ‘stop button’ midway
for changeover. FoldLine is
featured with multivariable pinfolder
for newspaper production
for small circulation up to 50,000
copies, commercial magazines
and books.
At drupa 2016, now scheduled
from May 31–June 10 at
Dusseldorf, FoldLine will be
one of the key products from
manroland web systems to be
demonstrated ‘live’ running at
the company’s stand as well
as Kodak’s.
