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Indian manufactured Bindwel installed in Angola

ith its recent-most installa- The USP of the Bindwell project at Ed- Lopes said, "Looking at the complexity
tion at Educavalor in Angola, ucavalor is: The entire post-press line of our work, we opted for this unique
Bindwel is not only boosting occupies 50% of the space required solution from Bindwel which is manu-
the made in India brand, it is for the 5,000 books per hour Bindline. factured in India."
also demonstrating how to save space Educavalor is headed by the group Two years ago in 2022, the group set
plus reduce maintenance cost, energy director Miguel Lopes who said, "We up their greenfield project for print-
consumption as well as overproduc- have production requirements of ing and binding textbooks in the city
tion.
about 20,000 books per day; however of Benguela about 400 kms from the
The Freedom 2K mini Bindline along the formats are vast and varied, and capital. Benguela is a city in western
with the Signa 4000 - 12 station gath- so, we need to turn around jobs very Angola and capital of the Benguela
erer, Freedom 2K perfect binder and quickly." The main printing machines Province. Benguela is one of Angola's
inline connected to the Trimit 30C trim- at Educavalor include a 560 mm cut- most populous cities with a population
mer has been installed at Educavalor in off Citiline from Manugraph and a of above five lakh.
Benguela in Angola. Educavalor is the four-colour press from Heidelberg, in Sudheeran V Nair of Bindwel who
book printing and binding business addition to a raft of single-colour ma- heads the operations for African mar-
vertical of the Noveduca group of Lu- chines. ket, and operates out of Dubai said
anda, Angola. The group, promoted by The binding department is centred "The Freedom series from Bindwel
three brothers, is focused on manu- around a mini Bindline - a unique has no limitations to formats, lots and
facturing and distributing products 2,000 books per hour inline binder. At runs. The binders - both the 2K and 5K
for schools - be it benches or exercise the heart of this line is the Freedom 2K series can turn around very fast and
notebooks. Also, they have a commer- fully automatic perfect binder which will handle a huge range of formats."
cial printing plant in Angola's capital can change from one format to any
city of Luanda. other in less than one minute. Miguel Source – PrintWeek
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