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Dhaval Colour Chem (DCC) Unveils Global Portfolio Positions itself as a comprehensive printing solutions provider for all segments

During October 2013, Dhaval Colour Chem

Pvt. Ltd (DCC) organized an 'Open House' at its

Display & Orientation Center in Tirupur. About

400 printers and exporters from in and around

what is referred to as the ’T-shirt capital of

India' gathered at the venue for the occasion.

What they got to see and experience was a

truly global portfolio of the print technology

brands represented by DCC.

The availability of so many leading brands

under one roof was a development that

brought smiles on the faces of all the printers

who attended the event.

Narendra Dadia, Chairman, DCC, thanked all

those gathered at the venue and informed

them about the purpose behind arranging this

unique interaction.

"The printers in Tirupur and its surrounding

areas carry out printing assignments for leading

global apparel brands. Obviously, there will be

quality specifications that need to be adhered

to. Similarly, bulk orders need to be completed

and dispatched within the limited time frame

that too, without crossing the limited budget

that is permitted.

Therefore, to facilitate this endeavor by our

Indian printers, we decided to provide one-

stop solutions for all the different varieties of

printing needs", Narendra Dadia explained.

According to him, Indian printers can provide

results that are on par with the global

standards, as long as they have access to the

similar facilities, in terms of machinery and

requisite input materials. "Here, in our Display

and Orientation Center at Tirupur, we offer

the best branded products and automation

options so that printers can correspond with

the assigned specifications like, high volumes at

low cost or small quantities of very high quality

based on the label’s pre-set rigid parameters,"

Narendra Dadia pointed out.

DCC has always positioned itself as a

comprehensive printing solutions provider for

all segments and it will continue to organize

such ‘Open House' sessions in future to

familiarize the printer community with

the latest print technology solutions and

equipments that are available in their facility.

Screen Print India interacted with the

representatives of some leading brands and

gathered their expectations and analysis of the

“Because we are selling

only printers and not the

full solutions, we have

associated with DCC as both

sales & service partner who

can extend the complete

solution to the customer” -

EPSON

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market. Read on for these exclusive insights.

M&RUSP:

We provide textile screen printing machines. Tirupur has more circular knitting machines than any other region in the world. This is the major knitting centre and the printers here are exporting products to USA, Europe and Asia. Brands like Disney, Nike, Adidas, GUESS etc source their products from Tirupur hence our equipments are vital for the garments that are made in Tirupur. We have solutions for the Printer community so that they can add value to the garments by doing quality printing and embellishments.

Indian Market:India is a huge export market. To compete with the global brands one has to produce high quality products. The whole objective of hosting this event is to enable the textile printers to get acquainted with the most advanced printing technology and apply the same to manufacture globally competitive products. Thanks to the success of this event we are able to showcase our products to 300 plus companies who visited our “Open House”

Changes in the Printing Industry:This is an era of automation in the printing industry. It has also witnessed continuous shift to PVC free printing Inks since last 2 years

Dyeing units have been shut down and this affected the printing industry on a large scale. Additionally, due to the power crisis for two consecutive years, the demand was greater than the production. Off late, these limitations are in control due to which the printing business has taken a positive turn.

Digital v/s Screen Printing:More than a decade ago when internet revolution started, it was said that the consumption of paper would go down but today more paper is manufactured across the globe. In the same way both the technologies continue to co-exist, succeed and grow. Both the technologies seem to have a healthy future and we take pride in providing the technology for both of these growing segments of the Industry. Digital Printing is getting more preference these days but at the moment speed and costs are much in contrast compared to Screen Printing. Today, 95% of

Tirupur has more circular

Knitting machines than any

other region in the world. This

is the major knitting centre

and the printers here are

supplying global products to

USA, Europe and Asia.

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garment printing is done by Screen Technology

due to satisfactory speed and lesser cost of

production.

EPSONEpson is well known brand in the photo

imaging Industry. Our spare parts like print

heads are being used by other machine OEMS.

Having seen our OEM products doing very well,

we decided to venture into the digital printing

segment ourselves. In this way, we have

now become an active player in the signage

industry, CAD segment, fabrics and even into

Dry labs industry. With these products coming

in the picture, we have associated with DCC

to promote our Fabric Printers, which come

with original EPSON TFP Printhead and Dye

Sublimation Inks. In the past 6 months we have

installed more than 50 units all over India and

enhanced our reach in this segment.

We will be coming out with a Direct To Garment (DTG) printing machine by February 2014.

We are primarily catering to T-shirt Printing Since, we sell machines and not a complete printing suite, we have partnered with DCC as both sales and service partner who can extend the complete set solutions to the customers.

KORNITNew Products:We have Two Products in this category:

1) Kornit “Avalanche 1000” that (currently the Fastest Industrial direct to garment printing machine) was recently launched in June 2013 at FESPA & now making its debut for the first time in Asia.

2) Kornit-Paradigm is a value added solution for a Screen Printer since it can combine the special effect of Screen Printing (for e.g. Burn-out) together with the advantage of digital printing which gives photorealistic image along with many colors, shades, gradations etc.

Market:We are happy that we have a right Channel Partner in India in form of DCC. DCC has been putting a lot of efforts and focus on promoting the Digital Printing Technology through their Display and Orientation Center in Tirupur. We also appreciate their dedication to bring in new technology trends in Indian textile printing industry.

Background:Kornit is an Israel based and globally renowned customer oriented Company. We have Asia-Pacific HQ in Hong Kong and a sales office in Mumbai and DCC as a local partner in India. Because we understand that we need to be close to our customer in order to service them on-time we also have local technicians in India providing service support to our customers.

Indian printers can provide

results that are on par with

the best abroad, as long as

they have the access to the

similar facilities, in terms of

machinery and requisite input

materials.

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We are celebrating our 10th year in India and

we have a presence in over 100 countries with

1000 machines being sold till date. We are the

global players in the field of digital printing on

garments & various other substrates.

ASPE Printing TechnologiesASPE Printing Technologies was started in the

year 2010.

We sell in the market niche small printing area

and that's why ASPE label printing machines.

We are selling our label printers in over

100+ countries with over 750 installations

worldwide.

Our machines can do label printing, printing on undergarments, socks and promotional printing on products like Frisbee, beverage container, cooler, etc.

India is an emerging business for printing and process automation Our machines with small print area complement very well with large digital printing equipments.

We have customers with full-filled digital printing facility but using our label printing machines. We think our machines should be treated as tool to help to process the materials through the production floor.

For example, large t-shirts can be printed on big machines. Our machines will be doing the operations and helpful in speeding up and deliver the final goods to the customer.

We met DCC representatives in China to discuss the market potential in India & within a year we have appointed DCC as our sole distribution arm for India.

What I see is that good advanced techniques from printing technology. It seems like everybody is thinking like the future of decoration textile will shift on automation.

There is really a positive feeling that there is going to be a lot of big advantage of global textile business.

We met DCC representatives

in China and started talking

about the Indian market just

one year before and now they

are our sole distribution for

Indian Region

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Customer Feedback .....

- T. R.Srikant (President, Tirupur Export Knit Screen Print Association)“Digital Printing is the latest trend in the Textile Industry. By organizing this Open House event, DCC has presented an excellent platform for people who can't visit overseas to experience advanced printing techniques. DCC is certainly helping the printer community in Tirupur by introducing such high end printing solutions, from the pioneers in digital printing solutions like Epson & Kornit.”

- Raja Shanmugam (MD, Warsaw International & Ex. Chairman, NIFT, Tirupur)“Digital Printing is a Revolution. Latest Printing Technology is adding a great value to the garments thereby making them compatible in the export market.”

- Thirukumaran (MD, Ess Tee Exports) “This is an ideal opportunity for the people in Tirupur to witness the state of the art printing equipments under one roof. This Display & Orientation Center is completely dedicated to machinery and consumables related to Textile Printing Industry. “