The craftsmen behind the Orient web offset presses, TPH from India strengthens their presence with their latest orders.
Punch Nigeria has opted for two units of fully automated 5-tower Orient X-Cel (36,000 cph) press of 578mm cutoff with 6 auto reel changers. The press being supplied by TPH is a fully featured shaftless press, equipped with auto colour registration & cutoff control, remote & automatic ink pumping, stacker, expected to be operational by July-August this year.
Zimbabwe Newspapers  have ordered a 4-tower Orient X-Cel (36,000 cph) press of 546 mm cutoff with Megtec auto reel changers, for their Harare printing centre. This fully – featured shaftless press is equipped with QI’s auto colour & registration system. This press also has UV web dryer on one web. It is expected to be operational by mid- 2013 and should help TPH in making deeper inroads into Central & Southern Africa.
Also, an order has been placed by an Algerian newspaper publishers for an Orient Super Machine of 560 mm cutoff consisting of two 4-Hi towers and a 2-Hi tower with one folder and four auto reel changers.
In 2011 they have installed an Orient Super of 578 mm., cutoff in Uganda with features like brushmist, pneumatics, motorization. Shaheed Osman Omer Printing Press, Khartoum, a government owned newspaper company in Sudan opted for an Orient Super Machine of 578 mm cutoff in 2011.
Femi Publications, the owners of leading Mauritian daily, Le Defi have added-on a 4-Hi tower and a mono unit to their existing Orient Super press of 578 mm. cutoff. The augmented line is capable of printing a 40 –pager tabloid with 16 pages in colour & 24 in black & white.