MEGABOUND, KANTHI INDUSTRIES

MEGABOUND is one of the leading manufacturers of complete hard-case solutions for the books binding industry in India. Srinivasa Reddy, who co-founded this Bangalore-based manufacturing set-up during the beginning of the last decade, attributes such an achievement to their stress on continuous market feedback and research. MEGABOUND entered the printing industry during ***1 with its first machine, Perfect Binding Single Clamp Machine. The Perfect Binding Single Clamp Machine was appreciated by its customers, and satisfied customers began to demand for a case binding machine. As a result, MEGABOUND launched its own case binding machine, Case Maker CB**0 in ***5. This was immediately followed in ***6 by the Edge Squaring Machine for notebook manufacturing, in anticipation of such a need that was felt by the notebook industry during that time. Research conducted by MEGABOUND during ******7 revealed that the notebook manufacturers were in need of machines that could help them achieve the binding operations in a shorter time period. To meet this need, MEGABOUND released in ***7, the Case Maker CB**0 that could be run by two operators at the same time and also achieve about *0% higher production in the same time period. The Case Maker CB**0 FL launched in ***8 went even ahead by providing the facility for three operators to run the machine at the same time and also achieved about ****0% more production than the CB**0. The same year, the Perfect Binding *-Clamp Machine was also released into the market. ***9 saw a bunch of releases from MEGABOUND, which included the Casing-In machine CIM**0, the Joint Forming Machine JF**0, and Case Maker Active. These machines support the manufacturing operations of notebook industries. The path-breaking Case Maker Active had the same productivity as the CB**0 FL, but could be operated by a single operator, and also had the window pasting capability to save labour and also space.