Kolbus partners with Manroland Sheetfed India

Neeraj Dargan, manager, Manroland Sheetfed Bharat, Maximilian Schulte, expanse sales manager of Kolbus GmbH, and Kamal Vyas, general manager, Manroland Sheetfed India.

Kolbus, based in Rahden, Germany, was the globally dominant supplier of volume binding machinery and systems with a potent footprint in India, including the major book printing exporters. In January 2018, it sold the bookbinding systems to MullerMartini. Today, Kolbus has renewed its India activities with a sales and distribution partnership with Delhi-based Manroland Sheetfed India. Manroland Sheetfed volition provide applied science and maintenance services for the Kolbus book instance production and embossing, stacking, folding, and box case processing line for luxury machines including their previous models in the country while Kolbus, which continues to provide spare parts for many of its older machines, volition supply these.

At a recent coming together at the Manroland Sheetfed office in West Delhi, Maximilian Schulte, expanse sales director of Kolbus GmbH said, "Thanks to a partner like Manroland Sheetfed, Kolbus will now too provide service for casemakers and packaging machines; and in order to do that effectively, information technology is important to accept engineers in the land. After-sales service is an of import part of installing a machine."

Luxury carton boxes made by Kolbus box making car.

Kolbus has divested about of its bounden equipment to Muller Martini to fully concentrate on casemaking and packaging mechanism. "We run across new scope for casemakers for the volume industry. Nosotros have been selling casemakers for more than 50 years and with the right partner, information technology will regain recognition in the Indian market. In the last 20 years, we have sold more than 25 new casemakers in Bharat and the number is much higher if you lot take into account the used machines. As for our packaging machines, nosotros aim to go a well known brand in the industry," Schulte said.

Kolbus, a visitor that dates back to 1775, started its venture into the packaging manufacture more than years ago. Part of that is a subsidiary company in the U.s. chosen Hycorr, which makes equipment for flexo printing and rotary die-cutting of corrugated cartons. In 2018, Kolbus acquired UK-based box car producer BCS Autobox Machinery, which produces very heady modular equipment lines for short- and medium-run corrugated cartons including flexo and digital printing options.

Nonetheless, Kolbus remains a vertically integrated precision engineering science company with a foundry, a parts manufacturing unit and a warehouse that are a all part of the Kolbus headquarters in Rahden, about Hanover. Its research and development activity is mainly in Rahden merely besides conducted in Krostitz nigh Leipzig likewise every bit the Kolbus Autobox constitute in the Great britain and its Hycorr plant in the U.s.. Every bit of today, the company notwithstanding produces parts for Kolbus book binding machines assembled and sold by Muller Martini.

Discussing the Kolbus plans for the most future in India, Neeraj Dargan of Manroland Sheetfed Bharat said, "We already take experienced electric engineers at Manoroland Sheetfed who can maintain Kolbus casemakers but nosotros are still building up on the mechanical part. The mechanical engineers demand to be trained at Kolbus Germany. Our plan is to go them trained before the showtime installation of a new Kolbus casemaking machine in India. We strongly believe that information technology will happen before drupa 2020."

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