Vijay Kumar Chopra, CMD and chief editor, Punjab Kesari Group recently flagged of 331st and 332nd trucks of relief material for distribution to the migrants of border villages Muralia and Pandorian of RS Pura in J&K respectively.

Ashwani Bhardwaj elevated to the hubergroup management board

Sn order to intensify the Group’s focus on its operational activities and to integrate the regions more closely into the task of planning future strategic development, the printing-ink manufacturer, hubergroup recently strengthened their existing management team, including Thomas L Hensel (CEO and operations management Americas) and Ursula Borgmann (R&D, technology), by the addition of Ashwani Bhardwaj (operations management Asia) and Heiner Klokkers (operations management Europe).

“We can count ourselves lucky to have such talented people among our own employees,” says Thomas L Hensel, adding, “Ashwani Bhardwaj is an outstanding manager in our Group, and the prudent and successful leader of our largest production plant. Heiner Klokkers stands out due to his deep understanding of the market, his tremendous willingness to assume responsibility and his motivational leadership and management style.”

Ashwani Bhardwaj studied natural science and graduated in Business Administration, and he joined Micro Inks Ltd, the Indian arm of the hubergroup, back in 1995, where his most recent post was that of managing director. He has more than 32 years of experience in industry, 23 of them in printing inks.

With an initiative taken for training the operators of print-shops in the country two years ago, Heidelberg India’s Print Media Academy (PMA) recently completed its fourth ‘Operator Development Programme (ODP)’.

“ODPs are just getting better and better every passing year. The fourth Operator Development Programme (ODP) was a grand success with excellent support from our fellow printers. We designed the programme in such a way that the operators could grasp the technology behind each vital division of the print production chain i.e., prepress, press and postpress, in detail. Just like previous ODPs, we were successful in striking the right balance between practical and theoretical sessions,” conveyed professor Rajendrakumar Anayath, head - PMA India, mentioning, “We trained fourteen operators this year and besides regular subjects, we included a special course on print colour management which gives in-depth understanding of colour separation, prepress techniques, preflight checking and proofing methods.”

As per Mahendran from Shree Maruthi Printers, Coimbatore - one of the participants of the fourth ODP, “This training programme was an ink-water balance, colour management, press maintenance, safety procedures, ink application for commercial and packaging printing and so on. Training on ‘print colour management’, in particular, was very useful.We gained knowledge on how to enhance the data in prepress stage itself, which saves time during printing”, expressed Shashidhara from Mangala Art Printers, Bangalore – another ODP participant. The participants also had a chance to visit some local commercial and packaging industries in and around Chennai.

Just a few months after unveiling its state-of-the-art photo imaging house with the installation of Xerox 770 digital colour press, New Delhi-based Spot On Solutions has built up confidence to hit the region’s photo printing market in an atypical manner. “After seeing the rapid demands in stylish photo albums, be it weddings, trade events, business parties, anniversaries and others, we opted to chose Xerox 770 press to tap the segment by delivering latest ever styles, designs and outputs,” said Rajiv Jhingan of Spot On Solutions in an interaction with Print & Publishing during the formal launch of the company’s photo imaging house in New Delhi. Spot on Solutions is one of the leading one-stop-solutions printing house catering all needs and requirements of photo albums, calendars, canvas prints and many more.