India is one of the world’s largest newspaper markets, where the circulation continues to grow. The growth in circulation, combined with need for innovative products, poses capacity issues in many newspaper printing plants. Therefore many newspapers are increasing their capacity by building new printing plants, replacing old presses with new high speed presses or imported presses.

Since these are huge investments that need to be used for a long period of time, selection of suitable machineries and capacity is crucial. Secondly, the installation projects need careful planning and execution. Since the project involves co-ordination between many teams, adherence to time schedule is very crucial.

This two day workshop aims to present a standardised and structured approach to establish a new newspaper printing plant. The workshop will cover choice of machinery both new and used, building design and execution of the installation.

K. KrishnanThe workshop is led by Mr. Krishnan, former Vice-President, Production for Kasturi & Sons Ltd., publishers of The Hindu and Businessline daily newspapers. He has over 30 years of experience in Project Management, Press Installations and Production planning. Krishnan is a mechanical engineer from Anna University, Chennai.

His areas of expertise include project management, press Installations, production planning and budgeting.