QI Press Controls and sister company EAE are hopeful of more orders after completing an upgrade at ABP's Kolkata printing plant, the first in India to involve both vendors.

It provides for installation of QI's mRC-3D colour register system on of a Goss Universal 70 and a complete retrofit by EAE of control systems there.

APB features regularly in print quality awards, winning SNAP certificates and membership of WAN-Ifra's International Newspaper Colour Quality Club. QIPC and EAE have been talking with ABP about routes to improve processing speeds and reduce waste for more than a year.

Apart from the EAE retrofit, ten of QI's mRC-3Ds cameras have been installed on the five towers, all with ink mist shields and motorised scanner transport options.

Managing director of QIPC-EAE India Vijay Pandya is now hopeful of further contracts at ABP's 11 other printing plants in India. "ABP is keen to invest in automation and efficiency, and because QIPC-EAE continues to develop its products and services, I firmly believe we are the partner par excellence for them," he says.

Pictured: Meeting up at WPE in Hamburg are (from left) Menno Jansen (Chairman of QI Press Controls), Somnath Guha (ABP corporate manufacturing manager), Vijay Pandya, Bernhard Schmiedeberg (EAE sales vice president), D.D.Purkaystha (ABP managing director and chief executive), Snehasis Roy (ABP technical associate vice president) and Atideb Sarkar (ABP strategy associate vice president)