Printing house adds more machines to meet growing demand
Printing house adds more machines to meet growing demand
The State Printing House reported that it expects to buy an additional modern printing machine by the end of this year after having already bought two new machines in the first six months.
The equipment that the printing house has bought and now plans to buy this year are two printers and a machine that folds pages.
“We have bought more machines to cover the increasing demand from our customers,” State Printing House Director Mr May-on Thammavong said last Friday.
The additional printing machine will be imported from Germany, after the previous imports of one printing machine from Japan and a folding machine from the Republic of Korea.
“We are now asking for permission from the government authorities to proceed with the order,” Mr May-on said.
The printing house wants the additional machine because it has seen that the printing business is booming and it needs to provide its customers with a fast, quality service.
Staff have to work at weekends because there is such a large volume of orders to be filled.
“Once we have more machines, we will build more confidence and attract even more customers,” he said.
He also hopes they will be able to move into larger premises in the future because “the existing one seems now to be too small due to the growth of print services and the increasing number of customers”.
Normally, the printing house would use about 30 tonnes of paper each year to print the Vientiane Times, various government magazines and certificates.
“However, since February we have used 200 tonnes of paper. This is the first time we have used such a large amount of paper and it's mainly because we have a new customer, the Ministry of Education, which requires us to print a lot of textbooks and writing books,” Mr May-on said.
The printing house plans to print about 324 million pages of 13cm x 19cm this year. “We have already done about 216 million pages in the first six months,” he added.
It also expects to earn more than 10 billion kip this year and had already invoiced over 4.24 billion kip in the first six months. “Our earnings last year were over 9 billion kip,” Mr May-on said.
It plans to contribute over 673 million kip to the national budget through taxes and fees. “We have already paid over 215.6 million kip in the first six months,” he added.
The printing house now has more than 80 experienced and skilled staff. It was established before the liberation of Laos in 1975 and became a commercial printing house in 1989.
Laos currently has more than 100 printing establishments, both state and private, and the demand for printing services is growing rapidly.
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