A Uniset 60 single-width press at Malayala Manorama has been extended and updated in a record 18 days.

Two of the manoland towers – built by Manugraph under a licensing arrangement – have been reconfigured at Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Kerala in India. The print site produces about 235,000 copies of the 24-page morning daily, including 16 colour pages.

Malayalam daily Malayala Manorama has a print circulation of more than 2.2 million and is one of the five largest daily newspapers in India (and eleventh in the world). It is produced at 11 locations in Kerala, five elsewhere in India and three in the Gulf region.

Last year it placed orders for five Mitsubishi DiamondSpirit SA presses and Müller Martini mailroom equipment.

A comprehensive electrical retrofit and software update accompanied installation of a colour control console and a new operator controls, integrating the new towers. The work was undertaken jointly by manroland web systems and manroland India

Production head Mohan Nairsays the operation was “well-organised, fast, and of a very high quality”.