Planning new printing plants? Consult report

Managed by a German-Indian research group, the report focuses on the Indian newspaper market, which has developed rapidly in the last few years selling 99 million newspaper copies per day. The size of the country requires distributed production capacities and therefore different types of new printing plants are planned and built in many locations in India.

According to WAN-IFRA, although the starting point was focused on the Indian market, the guidelines and detailed checklists provided are of value for international newspaper companies that are starting new printing plant projects. The 64 pages of the report includes tips about project management, material and workflows, construction sequences, equipment selection, machine installation and performance acceptance tests, as well as posing “all the questions” needed to organise an appropriate and technically faultless construction.

The report should be available online at www.ifra.net/messages/ifra-research-projects as a free download for members of WAN-IFRA.

• WAN-IFRA (www.wan-ifra.org) is a global organisation of the world's newspapers and news publishers based in Paris, France, and Darmstadt, Germany, with subsidiaries in Singapore, India, Spain, France and Sweden. It represents more than 18 000 publications, 15 000 online sites and over 3000 companies in more than 120 countries. The organisation was created by the recent merger of the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) and IFRA, a research and service organisation for the news publishing industry.