Since the Group’s own Sales & Service organization, manroland India, was estab-lished last year, customers on the subcontinent are now paying much more atten-tion to manroland presses.

manroland has been an approved benchmark in India for a long time now. This es-pecially goes back to the on-site service of the company. Beneath sales offices in Chennai and New Delhi, manroland has strengthened its engagement by its new subsidiary company manroland India that has locations all over the country. manro-land India is responsible for distributing the whole manroland product range. Thereby the company is closer to the customer and can offer competence at first hand. The ambition is to serve every customer in a more comprehensive and indi-vidual way to deepen the existing relations and to win new customers.

The Indian market became a downright boom-market over the past years. For more than ten years the government has been fighting the illiterate quote – with success. About 100 million Indians so far have learned to read and write. The al-phabetization rate is up to 56,5 percent today – especially the printing industry benefits from this development. Almost every day new newspapers are published in India what increases the demand on print products and therewith on printing presses. The alphabetization helps to increase the growing rate and opens up new investment possibilities and markets for the printing industry.
Close to the market

Sona Printers pvt. Ltd. in New Delhi has ordered three presses: a five-color RO-LAND 700 with InlineCoater smart (a first for India), a five-color ROLAND 200 also with InlineCoater smart, and a two-color ROLAND 700 convertible perfector. Orient Press Ltd. in Mumbai will in future be producing with two six-color ROLAND 700 presses, each with a coating module and extended delivery.

The Indian market with its immense potential is close to manroland’s heart. There-fore it’s not surprising that the company today is in a top position at the Indian newspaper market. Many of the largest Indian newspaper publishers have opted for the proven manroland technology over the past years.

Maintenance Agreement

The outstanding partnership between manroland and Times of India, the largest Indian newspaper, already began in 1996 with the purchase of two GEOMAN presses for printing sites in Mumbai and Delhi. Thereafter in 2004 Times of India bought a COLORMAN and a REGIOMAN press for their printing facilities in Mum-bai and Bangalore. One of their latest orders consists of three COLORMAN, two presses for new printing sites in Mumbai and one press for an existing site in Delhi. The latest presses for the new Mumbai printing site are the first newspaper installa-tions in India that will be equipped with AUROSYS, the automatic reel handling system of manroland. After recently placing an order for three more REGIOMAN, Times of India up till now has eleven presses from manroland. The new REGIO-MAN will be installed at their various printing centers in Pune, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad, and Ahmedabad. The relationship between manroland and Times of India is further strengthened after signing a twelve years Maintenance Agreement for all these presses.

Beneath Times of India, manroland has a wide range of important customers throughout India. The latest partnership: HT Media Ltd., another leading Indian Newspaper, has ordered a REGIOMAN for their printing facility in Mumbai in 2008. HT Media Ltd. already has three COLORMAN at their Noida plant for printing their Delhi edition. The new press will go on edition in fall 2009. With a web width of 1,270 millimeters and a maximum speed of 80,000 copies per hour the press offers the best prerequisites for the customer’s production requirements.

The ROLAND 200 with InlineCoater smart convinces Indian printers- – now also available with InlineCoater smart.

[时间：2008-08-08  作者：manroland  来源：必胜网]