{"id":25787,"date":"2016-06-08T12:57:53","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T10:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=25787"},"modified":"2016-06-08T12:57:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T10:57:53","slug":"multi-million-machinery-to-improve-supply-of-stamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/06\/08\/multi-million-machinery-to-improve-supply-of-stamps\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi-million machinery to improve supply of stamps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi\u2019s oldest rubber stamp maker, Pemba Rubber Stamp, on Monday unveiled a new high-tech machine which will improve the supply of rubber stamps.<\/p>\n<p>Managing Director for the company, Matthew Pemba, said the multi-million machine has been acquired from South African rubber stamp making giant, Trodat.<\/p>\n<p>According to Pemba, the technology which the machine uses is of highest standards also available in first world countries such as the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Pemba was speaking in Blantyre when officials from Trodat were handing over the machine to Pemba.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe launch of this machine will help us to do our work with speed. Prior to this acquisition, production of a rubber stamp used to take us two hours but now we will be able to do that under 15 minutes. Similarly, a common seal which was taking us the whole day to make will now be taking us 30 minutes,\u201d said Pemba.<\/p>\n<p>Pemba also hopes to add new products to portfolio following the acquisition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are looking at branding items such as pens, plates and many others,\u201d said Pemba.<\/p>\n<p>And Trodat South Africa Managing Director, Clive Heydenrych, said the acquisition of the machine puts Malawi at par with the rest of the developed countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi\u2019s oldest rubber stamp maker, Pemba Rubber Stamp, on Monday unveiled a new high-tech machine which will improve the supply of rubber stamps. Managing Director for the company, Matthew Pemba, said the multi-million machine has been acquired from South African rubber stamp making giant, Trodat. According to Pemba, the technology which the machine uses is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25792,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25787\/revisions\/25792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}