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MGE Launches Joint Venture
MGE launches new Joint Venture in India to supply Dampening,
Dosing and Filtration equipment to the Indian Print market the
manufacturing is in full swing and the formal opening of MGE
Graphic Systems India Pvt Ltd. is planned around mid day. The
new company is based in Northern Delhi and is a joint venture
between MG Electric (Colchester) Ltd and Intelligraph Technology
Pvt Ltd. The company has been set up in India specifically
to manufacture MGE's PRESSMATE range of print products for
supply to the Indian market
and surrounding territories.
“The Indian Print market is
already very large and predictions
are that it will continue
to grow over the coming
years at an accelerated rate”
said Simon Martin, MGE Technical
Director, “The demand
for well priced quality equip-
Pressmate 1kw Dampening Chiller &
4kw Dampening Chiller with
MX2 Automatic Additive
Doser attached.
MGE Graphic Systems India Pvt. Ltd. participated in recently
concluded Printpack India 2009 and displayed Pressmate Range
of Chilled Dampeing Circulators, Ink Roller Temperature Control
System, varnish circulators, RO Units, Additive Dosing and
Filtration Unit, Return Circulators and Alcohol Control Units.
Wall St. Journal to print in India
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ment is already there and this
will only increase as the market
grows and further
matures. The launch of our
new manufacturing base in India is specifically aimed at addressing
this and will provide Indian OEM's and Printers with a high
quality local source for their ancillary equipment and its support.
The initial responses that we have had have been very
positive and we are very excited to be entering the market at
this time.”
The new company will manufacture
a subset of the
PressMate range primarily for
the Web market and will also
take on the distribution and
support of all MGE products
in India from Intelligraph Technology
Pvt Ltd with immediate
effect. Manufacturing of
PressMate products in the UK
plant will be unaffected by this
and will continue as normal.
Wall or unit mounted FX-1
Fount-Xtend filtration system
The wall St. Journal started printing its editions from India from
May 25, 2009 in an agreement with Indian Express Group. The
newspaper will be printed Monday through Friday at the
Express Group's printing sites in New Delhi and Mumbai and
delivered to subscribers and news stands in major cities the
same day as per press release from the Express Group and
various news agencies.
Plastic bag makers get into recycling
The plastic bag industry has an Earth Day surprise: less plastic.
Under pressure from consumers, environmental advocates and
retailers, the companies that make more than 80% of plastic bags
used by the nation's big retailers today will announce plans to make
the plastic bags from 40% recycled content by 2015.
It's no accident that the announcement is being made around 39th
observance of Earth Day on April 22, 2009.
The move comes as some cities are outlawing the bags and trendsetting
retailers, including Whole Foods and Trader Joe's, have
dropped them. Plastic bags, which take hundreds of years to
degrade, are regarded by many consumers as eyesores, threats to
wildlife and wasteful. The $1 billion industry makes about 90 billion
plastic bags annually in the USA alone.
With this move to ramp-up plastic bag recycling, some 463 million
pounds of greenhouse gas emissions and 300 million pounds of waste
will be cut annually, says Cal Dooley, CEO of the American Chemistry
Council, the trade group for the major plastic bag makers. "This is
unprecedented. "
"This is a significant commitment by the plastic bag industry to
reduce waste," says Matthew McKenna, president of the non-profit
group Keep America Beautiful, which will receive an undisclosed
donation from the American Chemistry Council.
Green Delhi
Delhi State cum NCR has in a recent Gazette Notification reminded all the
citizens about environmental chaos due to usage of plastic-bags – it has
impressed general public and traders about “The Delhi Degradable Plastic Bag
(Manufacture, Sale and Usage) and Garbage (Control) Act 2000 (Delhi Act No.
6 of 2001 - as it was passed by the legislative Assembly of the National Capital
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Territory of Delhi on 29 November, 2000).
This act specifies to prevent contamination of food stuffs carried in recycled
plastic bags, reduce the use of plastic bags, throwing or depositing non-biodegradable
garbage in public drains, roads, river, riverbeds and places open to
public view in the National Capital Territory of Delhi and for matters
connected therewith or incidental thereto.
In its early April 2009 notification the administration has specifiaclly mentioned
about periodicals which are beings mailed in plastic covers and imposing an
immediate ban for such usage of plastic covers – may it be weeklies or any
periodicity magazines.
But not everyone is applauding the move. That includes Earth Day
Network, the organizing body of Earth Day worldwide.
"It's annoying. And it's transparent," says Kathleen Rogers, president
of Earth Day Network. "The death knell has sounded for plastic bags.
They're just trying to continue to make a bad thing."
The Natural Resources Defense Council agrees: "We don't want
people to use disposable bags. We want people to use reusable
bags," says Darby Hoover, a senior research specialist.
Management consultant Pam Murtaugh says the Earth Day gambit
will backfire. "They're late to the party of good sense. In bragging
about it now, they're only building their own glass house."
But Dooley insists the move is more than cosmetic. He says the
industry will spend $50 million to overhaul the manufacturing process
and will collect 470 million pounds of recycled plastic annually
to make the new bags.
Among major retailers that will be part of this new program: Home
Depot and Walgreens.
Walgreens spokesman Michael Polzin says the program is "innovative"
and will "help improve the environment."
Home Depot is "encouraged by the positive steps the industry is taking
toward sustainability," says spokeswoman Tia Robinson.
—Courtesy USA Today