Increasingly relying on automated processes

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At their new plant in Calicut, The Hindu uses a modular and readily expandable solution from Muller Martini: a Newsveyor newspaper conveyor and a Listo stacker, which is ideal for thin to medium-thick products.

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The Listo stacker, ideal for thin to medium-thick newspaper products.

Increasing print runs and higher wages and distribution costs mean that automation in the mailroom is of growing importance when it comes to the production of Indian dailies. Newspaper printers are setting store by easy-to-operate, manageable and cost-effective systems, whose modularity facilitates a later expansion if production requirements change in the future. For those reasons, and based on its positive experience of Muller Martini solutions at several of their other plants, The Hindu decided on a Newsveyor/Listo solution from Muller Martini for its new plant in Calicut.

The Newsveyor conveyor can also convey shingle streams with irregular intervals to the Listo stacker between individual newspapers. The Listo stacker is the first stacker of this type in India. Top sheets are printed online and applied by hand. Afterwards the stacks are automatically film-wrapped and strapped. Since the Newsveyor has intermediate take-off and delivery stations, it is ideally suited to future expansions such as inserting machines. Muller Martini’s longstanding customer The Hindu is optimally equipped for current and future production.