This means nine of the publisher’s 15 print centres will used the automated equipment, installed to deal with its increasing circulation. With a daily total of 4.3 million copies, the 'Times of India’ has the highest circulation of any English-language broadsheet daily in the world.

The partnership with Ferag is part of moves to greater automation and process optimisation.

The four sites get integrated conveying, stacking and packaging lines incorporating UTR conveyors and MTS MultiStack stacker. The maker says the main reason why it was able to see off competition was because of higher net output of the individual lines.

Topsheet are produced automatically, and the company chose a driver documentation option in which LineMaster line control organises bundling according to the best distribution structure. Several routes can be produced in parallel on a single line, or the LineMaster can select between either series or parallel bundling.