New Delhi based bindery equipment manufacturer Pramod Engineering has developed an unusual gathering system for an Italian publisher in Bangalore.

Managing director Divesh Nath says the locally-designed 30-station Glory G-30 side-gathering machine devised for Indo-Italian joint venture Edis Publishers in Bangalore is designed to pick-up folded bible-paper forms in addition to products in the 60-130 gsm range, producing catalogues, magazines and book blocks at up to 5000 cph. The width of all stations can be set from one position and the machine operated by a team of four people.

At Edis, all 30 stations are used to gather what is known as “quadrotte”, and these collected into manageable piles for further processing.

Pramod is part of Indian publisher Delhi Press – whose 18-plus titles have print runs of more than 3.9 million monthly – and makes fully-automatic postpress machines for India and export. More than 300 of its flowline saddlestitching, gathering, trimming, stacking and drilling machines are in use in countries including Nepal, UAE, South Africa, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Oman, Nigeria, Tanzania and Kenya.

Pictured: The G-30 at Edis in Bangalore