High-end Rapida 106 for Bangladesh

Saturday, June 04, 2016

Press release from the issuing company

Bangladesh’s first Rapida 106 will be delivered at the end of August. NRG Printing & Packaging decided in favour of the no.1 in packaging printing and the world makeready champion in sheetfed offset with this investment. The company operates 18 sheetfed offset presses. The seven-colour Rapida 106 with coater and UV kit will soon ensure that the company can target new markets.

(l-r) Bhupinder Sethi, sales KBA, Ashan Habib Mamun, general manager NRG Printing & Packaging, Dietmar Heyduck, sales director KBA, Ali Amzad Hossain from KBA sales partner Graphic Solutions, and MD. Mojahedul Islam, assistant general manager NRG Printing & Packaging in front of the Rapida 106 on the KBA stand (1)

NRG is one of Bangladesh’s largest textile manufacturers and has had its own printing company with 175 staff and a head office in Dhaka since 2007. The Rapida 106 will be installed in the printing plant in Jamirdia. The new press will be equipped with a cardboard and plastics package and will be raised by 450mm. Print quality will be controlled via ErgoTronic ColorDrive and LogoTronic Professional links pre-press and MIS. NRG Printing & Packaging produces food packaging and folding carton for the cosmetic industry and pharmaceutical products.

Ashan Habib Mamun, general manager of NRG Printing & Packaging, and Dietmar Heyduck, sales director at KBA-Sheetfed, (r) seal the deal with a handshake (2)

Customers include international brand names, such as Nestlé and Unilever. The new press is expected to produce print products, which previously were imported from India, directly in Bangladesh.