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PRINTPACK INDIA 2019 IPAMA BULLETIN

JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2018 | SUPPORTED BY IPP & PSA | 1

IPAMA BULLETIN12 Years Issue No. 1

PUBLISHED BY IPP CATALOG PUBLICATIONS PVT LTD ON BEHALF OF IPAMA FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION ONLY RN NO. UPENG/2006/16787

Established in the year 1963, Sheth Printograph initially traded in letterpress printing

equipment. Subsequently, the company manufactured and exported print finishing, packaging and paper converting machines. Today, its customers span over 40 countries in South East Asia, Middle East, Latin America, Africa, Australia and the Indian subcontinent. The company remained largely unaffected by the new GST regime and has already signed up to participate in PrintPack at Greater Noida in February 2019.

Sonal Sheth, director of Sheth Printograph, says hers is the only company in India that manufactures hot-knife cutters and automatic lamination machines. The company has invested in R&D and after careful examination of several parameters including cost to the end user, launches its products.

Neeraj Sheth and Sonal Sheth, directors of Sheth Printograph

The first country to which Sheth’s machines were exported was Bangladesh – initially at a rate of a machine each week. Slowly, exports grew to Sri Lanka, China and South East Asia. China was not an open economy in the ‘70s and ‘80s and Sheth Printograph got a chance to explore the Chinese market. When the economic growth bubble of the South East Asian economies burst, the company shifted its focus to the Middle East, covering Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Iran and Bahrain. Soon after, on observing upcoming projects in Africa and adjoining countries, Sheth Printograph decided to explore the African market as well. In Africa, the company executes turnkey projects for its clients, right from sourcing raw materials to supplying machinery, manpower, installation and training.

“Over the years, the Chinese have managed to penetrate the market

worldwide. Initially, we were offering machines at affordable prices to a range of customers throughout the world. We had an upper hand because the only countries offering good quality machines back in those days were of European origin and their machines were costly. We got an opportunity to target a set of clients and offer machines according to their requirements at comparatively affordable rates,” says Sheth.

“In India, the market is evolving. A commercial printer is getting into packaging, someone operating in the packaging segment is diversifying into digital printing as well for commercial purposes or small runs. For instance, there is a customer who is in book printing and who has been a hardcore commercial offset printer but now, since the volume of books has reduced, he has ventured into digital. Just like that, metpet lamination came into the picture so there was a demand for a hot knife cutting system and we offered it. All in all, I think it is important to keep evolving with the market,” Sheth adds. z

– Harish Penumarthi

Exports of IndIan graphIc arts EquIpmEnt

Sheth Printograph – from machine exports to turnkey projects

The first country to which Sheth’s machines were exported was

Bangladesh – initially at a rate of a machine each week. Slowly, exports

grew to Sri Lanka, China and South East Asia.

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IPAMA OFFICE BEARERS

PRESIDENTS. Dayaker Reddy

VICE PRESIDENTSVinay Kumar Gupta

C.N. AshokJaiveer Singh

P.K. Bhalla

GENERAL SECRETARYNaveen Gupta

JOINT SECRETARYRakesh Sodhi

R. Suresh KumarIqbal Singh

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Although there are now a large number of print and packaging exhibitions in India, Printpack has emerged as the biggest and is poised to improve and grow with the next event in February 2019. The first reason is the sheer scale of the printing and packaging industry in India, which is huge and consists of many levels of business and technologies simultaneously. The second reason is that the Printpack exhibition, especially since it moved to the Expo Centre in Greater Noida, has emerged as a strong brand. The third reason is the Greater Noida Expo Centre itself that keeps growing and improving.

By the time of the February 2019 exhibition, it will also have a running Metro station. The fourth reason is that the entire industry is being given an opportunity by the organizers to contribute their best.

IPAMA has entrusted the IppGroup, which publishes Indian Printer and Publisher and Packaging South Asia, with producing the IPAMA Bulletin. We see this as an opportunity to first of all support the calls for unity in the industry that the IPAMA leadership has been making in recent months and the work it has been doing to bring various industry associations into the forthcoming exhibition.

Exhibitions are a form of event marketing where customers can see machines, technology and be educated and network. For equipment, consumable and technology businesses they are a way of reaching a large and diverse audience of potential customers and moving sales forward and at times even gauging the mood of their customers.

We see the Printpack exhibition and the opportunity of helping the organizers with the bimonthly IPAMA Bulletin as one of creating clear and transparent information that will help the exhibitors and the organizers in their visitor promotion program. We would also like to contribute to making the exhibition a knowledge event and a joyous industrial festival for both the exhibitors and the visitors.

– Naresh Khanna, [email protected]

A strong brand like Printpack can grow with creative thinking

FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK



The Indian Printing Packaging & Allied Machinery Manufacturers’ Association

(IPAMA), which is organizing the PRINTPACK INDIA 2019 exhibition at India Expo Centre in Greater Noida from 1 to 6 February 2019, has already sold more than 60% of exhibition space to 233 exhibitors as of 17 February 2018. Running in its 14th edition, the Printpack exhibition is daily including more industry segments with IPAMA making a concerted effort to bring together various associations and stakeholders and hold a strong show at a world-class site.

The Expo Centre in Noida is a permanent structure that can accommodate the running of rotational machinery. It has good transport infrastructure since it is connected by an expressway and a Metro station on the Noida/Greater Noida metro line that should be operational well within 2018 itself.

As per its policy, the IPAMA management is issuing to exhibitors a priority number on receipt of applications along with the requisite amount of space rent. The priority number is generated within 48 hours of credit of the requisite booking amount in IPAMA’s bank account. Space will be allocated to exhibitors strictly in accordance with the priority number. This information has already been circulated to participants, through various channels, for their information and guidance.

Prominent exhibitors who have already booked their space include LineOMatic, HP, Provin Technos (RMGT), Megabound, Xerox India, Manugraph, Insight Communications (Komori), Technova, Kodak India, Prakash Offset, Memory Repro, Alpna Visual, Electro Mec, Bobst, Monotech, Malhotra Graphics, Excel Machinery, NBG Printographics, Ronald Web and Manroland. Others including Konica Minolta, The Printers House, Canon, Zhongke India and Muller Martini are in the pipeline. LineOMatic with 500 square meters has so far booked the largest space at Printpack 2019.

L-R: Mustafa Kapadia, president, SPAI; Naveen Gupta, general secretary, IPAMA; Dayaker Reddy, president, IPAMA

1 3S Graphic Solutions 502 A.S. Print Aids Pvt. Ltd. 363 Aarushi Agencies Pvt. Ltd. 814 Abhikruti Digi Soft 105 Accurate Graphic Services 1046 Acme Machinery (India) Pvt. Ltd. 707 Advanced Graphic System 2038 AEC Machinery Co. Pvt. Ltd. 1469 AIM Graphic Machines Pvt. Ltd. 17110 Ajanta Industrial Corporation 15511 Alliance Printech Pvt. Ltd. 16812 Alok International 20913 Alpap Barring Technology 17814 Alpna Visual Packaging Aids 6715 AM. AS. ENGG. WORKS 21516 Amit International 18717 Amrit Graphics Pvt. Ltd. 7418 AND Global Sales Corporation 13219 AND Systems 16620 Anil Agencies Pvt. Ltd. 20021 APL Machinery Pvt. Ltd. 1522 Archies Ltd. 20223 Arihant International 18824 Arofine Polymers Pvt. Ltd. 4625 Arrow Multimedia 1426 Artize Die Makers 179

27 Associated Engineering Corporation 428 Associated Industrial Corporation 1229 Astra Chemtech Pvt. Ltd. 16430 Autoprint Machinery Mfrs. (P) Ltd. 10031 Baumer India Pvt. Ltd. 7732 Bhogle Engineering Works 9533 Bobst India Pvt. Ltd. 8734 Bodhi Professional Solutions Pvt. Ltd. 13435 Boxtech Bangalore 14236 Chemline India Ltd. 2937 Chetan Engg. Works 15338 Colorjet India Ltd. 17239 Compact Print Tech Pvt. Ltd. 13340 Computer World 13041 Condot Systems Pvt. Ltd. 642 Cosmic Print System 14943 Craft Industrial Corp. 15644 Creed Engineers (P) Ltd. 8645 Darshana Industries Pvt. Ltd. 21346 Dbind Wire Products Pvt. Ltd. 18547 Designnbuy Webtoprint Pvt. Ltd. 11148 Dizario Machinery 6349 DPMC Printpack Machinery Pvt. Ltd. 18350 Duratech Automation Pvt. Ltd. 12451 Electro Mec Machinery Manufacturers 3452 Empowera Technorganics Pvt. Ltd. 38

53 Ensure Enterprises 6254 Esko Graphics India Pvt. Ltd. 14455 Etchcut International 10656 Excel Machinery (Guj.) Pvt. Ltd. 2357 Fair Deal Engineers 258 Falcon Machinery Co. 6859 Falcon Vacuum Pumps & Systems 2860 Five Star Printing Machinery Co. 2161 Franstek Belts Pvt. Ltd. 11562 Fujikura Graphics India Pvt. Ltd. 16763 G.B. Tech (India) 19364 Global Link Impex 3065 Global Printech Graphics 16166 Grafica Flextronica 11267 Grafik Machinery Exchange India 7868 Graphics Impex Services 12769 Grover Industries 2070 Gurinder Engineering Works 19871 Gurleen Engineers 15872 Gutenberg Machinery Manufacturers 573 Harbhajan Singh & Co. 4874 HB Fuller India Adhesives Pvt. Ltd. 9675 Hi-Tech Systems PFE Pvt. Ltd. 3776 Hm Web House Pvt. Ltd. 14377 HP India Sales Pvt. Ltd. 20178 Huber Group India Pvt. Ltd. 123

The following exhibitors have already booked space by paying the requisite space rent. Details of Participants as on 7.3.2018

Discount till 31 March 2018Companies that book space on

or before 31 March 2018 will get a discount of Rs. 500 per square meter. New companies enrolling as IPAMA members will get a further discount of 5%. NSIC members can submit their applications for availing MSME assistance. IPAMA intends to provide world-class exhibition facilities to visitors and exhibitors.

A multi-purpose website for the Printpack India 2019 exhibition is being developed as a sharing platform for relevant information by visitors and exhibitors. The industry associations, which are interested in organizing seminars, conferences and business-meets during the exhibition, in association with IPAMA, can submit their proposals for consideration and approval.

IPAMA has signed one more MoU with the Indian Paper Corrugated & Packaging Machinery Manufacturers’ Association (ICPMA) for marketing and sales of the space earmarked for the ‘Corrugation Industry’ directly or through sub-agents and for the dissemination of information of about the PRINTPACK INDIA 2019 event through its website, monthly newsletters and bulletins to members and potential exhibitors. ICPMA will also be branded as ‘Corrugation Industry Partner’ for promotion of the show. Earlier, IPAMA signed agreements with the Association of Label Printers & Suppliers (ALPS); the Indian Paper Corrugated & Packaging Machinery Manufacturers’ Association (ICPMA); and the Screen Printers’ Association of India (SPAI).

In continuation to agreements with various Indian associations of the graphic arts industry, IPAMA is now heading towards SAARC countries, and has signed its first MoU with Bangladesh Mudran Shilpa Samity. The association is also approaching industry associations in Sri Lanka and Bhutan in this effort.

IPAMA has already organized two promotional meets in Mumbai and Amritsar. It has taken part in domestic exhibitions, including those organized at Kolkata, Vijayawada, Ahmedabad

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and Chennai. As in the past IPAMA is taking part in overseas exhibitions for promoting PPI 2019. These include Collate 2018 organized by the Sri Lanka Printers Association at Colombo in March 2018.

Indian Printer and Publisher and Packaging South Asia will be producing the bimonthly IPAMA Bulletin starting February 2018 and also the Printpack Show Daily during the exhibition. z

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Sl Name Designation1 Dayaker Sripathi President2 Jaiveer Singh Vice President (East)3 Vinay Kumar Gupta Vice President (North)4 C. N. Ashok Vice President (South)5 P. K. Bhalla Vice President (West)6 Naveen Gupta General Secretary7 Iqbal Singh Joint Secretary (East)8 Rakesh K. Sodhi Joint Secretary (North)9 R. Suresh Kumar Joint Secretary (South)10 Satish Kaushik Joint Secretary (West)11 Dharam Pal Rawat Treasurer12 Dharmesh Arora GC Member13 T. R. Mahajan GC Member14 T. D. Raghani GC Member15 Jatinder Kumar Julka GC Member16 Ashok Kumar Seth GC Member17 Nizam Ahmed GC Member18 Harish Bansal GC Member19 Nitin Garg GC Member20 Alhad Gandre GC Member21 Farhad Shahpurwala GC Member22 Gaurav Gupta GC Member

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More than 60% exhibitor space at Printpack 2019 already sold

IPAMA GOVERNING COUNCIL MEMBERS



79 Hydrotek Engineers 21080 Hy-Tek Print Mac 10281 Imaging Systems 21182 Impex Enterprise 9783 Imtech Marketing Services 8984 Indian Machinery Co. 9885 Indian Paper Co. Pvt. Ltd. 19286 Indo Asia Machines Corporation 4787 Indo Poly Machines Corporation 5388 Insight Communication & Print Solution India Pvt. Ltd. 8089 Ionic Chemicals Pvt. Ltd. 11790 J.N. Arora & Co. Pvt. Ltd. 19991 Join Pack Machines Pvt. Ltd. 10992 Joy D-Zign Engineers Pvt. Ltd. 2293 K. Shyamji Enterprises 14594 KGR Machines 15795 Kinetic Rolls Pvt. Ltd. 19696 Kiran Consultants Pvt. Ltd. 10797 KMI Business Technologies Pvt. Ltd. 5498 Kodak India Pvt. Ltd. 17599 Kohima Machine Tools 82100 Kohli Graphic Systems 55101 Kurz (India) Pvt. Ltd. 91102 Lakshmi Trading Company 83103 Lalit Jain Industries 206104 Laser Die Tech 32105 Line O Matic Graphic Industries 52106 M.R. Graphic 140107 Maan Machine Tools 92108 Machines Dealer 148109 Macro Print Engineers India Pvt. Ltd. 71110 Magic Blades Pvt. Ltd. 162111 Mahalaxmi Rubtech Limited 118112 Malhotra Graphics 45113 Mamata Enterprises 150114 Manroland India Pvt. Ltd. 165115 Manu Paper Coat 204116 Manugraph India Ltd. 152117 Mark VI Trac Systems 94118 Megabound (India) Pvt. Ltd. 25119 Megtec Systems India Pvt. Ltd. 120120 Memory Repro Systems (P) Ltd. 31121 Mohan Engineering Works 154122 Mohan Impressions Pvt. Ltd. 110123 Monk International 93124 Monotech Systems Ltd. 88125 Muller Martini (India) Pvt. Ltd. 125126 Multi Hitech Inc. 197127 Muskan Graphics 214128 Naph Graphics Pvt. Ltd. 16129 Narsingh Dass & Co. Pvt. Ltd. 39130 Natraj Corrugating Machinery Co 84131 Natraj Industries 217132 NBG Printographics Machinery Co. 35133 Neel Kanth Machinery Company 105134 NITTA Corporation India Pvt. Ltd. 159135 Nu Lith Graphic Pvt. Ltd. 114136 Om Vir Print O Pack Pvt. Ltd. 186137 Omkar Engineering 126138 Pan Graphics Machinery 129

139 Pankaj Trading Company 61140 Paper And Label Converting Technologies 138141 Param ERP Solutions India Pvt. Ltd. 190142 Parma & Parma (India) Pvt. Ltd. 216143 Patel Enterprises 69144 Pragati Corporation 64145 Prakash Offset Machinery Pvt. Ltd. 1146 Pratham Technologies Pvt. Ltd. 72147 Precision Cutting Systems Pvt. Ltd. 184148 Pressline India Pvt. Ltd. 27149 Prima Machinery Co. 173150 Print Generic Systems 17151 Printing Machinery Engineers 163152 Print-O-Bind Technologies 170153 Printpack Engineers 189154 Print-Packaging.Com Pvt. Ltd. 44155 Prizm Holograph & Security Films 180156 Prosper Choice Import Export 176157 Provin Technos Pvt. Ltd. 8158 PS Graphics 40159 Punjab Ferro Controls Pvt. Ltd. 181160 Quadtech Inc. 116161 Qutub Impex Pvt. Ltd. 9162 R.K. Label Printing Machinery 208163 Radix Enterprise 182164 Radix Software Services Pvt. Ltd. 119165 Ratan Industrial Engineers 131166 Reprographic Systems & Supplies 26167 Reves Technopack 137168 Riso India Pvt. Ltd. 52A169 Robertson Machinery Company 60170 ROFL Printing Solutions 151171 Romco M Offset Pvt. Ltd. 59172 Ronald Web Offset Pvt. Ltd. 50173 Rotoffset Corporation 177174 Rotta Print India Pvt. Ltd. 33175 Royal Enterprises 218176 S.S. Industries 85177 Saawariya International 103178 Sahil Graphics 13179 Saint & Mon Company 174180 Sangeeta Poly Pack Pvt. Ltd. 139181 Satish Chemicals 122182 Servokon Systems Ltd. 141183 Shailja Papers Ltd. 79184 Sheth Printograph Pvt. Ltd. 7185 Shree Lamipack Pvt. Ltd. 128186 Shri Vinayak Packaging Machine 58187 Skytech Corporation 147188 Sodhisons Mechanical Works 18189 Sona Papers Pvt. Ltd. 41190 Sond Associates (Engg.) Pvt. Ltd. 11191 SRK Technology Pvt. Ltd. 75192 Stallion Innovative Machines 66193 Star ID Solutions 24194 Suba Solutions Pvt. Ltd. 65195 Sudarshan Paper & Board Pvt. Ltd. 205196 Super Bond Adhesives Pvt. Ltd. 136197 Syntron Industries Pvt. Ltd. 101198 Taniya Industry 212

199 Tech Master Engineering 160200 Techmart Digital Systems Pvt. Ltd. 135201 Techno Graphics Services Pvt. Ltd. 99202 Technoshell Automations Pvt. Ltd. 108203 Technova Imaging Systems (P) Ltd. 169204 Toyo Ink Arets India Pvt. Ltd. 113205 Trutech Machinery 90206 U.V. Graphic Technologies Pvt. Ltd. 51207 Unique UV and Light Pvt. Ltd. 76208 Unittex India 19209 V.R. Print N Pack 207210 Vallava Graphic Machinery 57211 Variety Wires 191212 Veekay Industries 73213 VIG Graphics Pvt. Ltd. 194214 Vijaya Grafiks Inc. 42215 Vivid Manufacturing Co. Pvt. Ltd. 195216 Watthour Systems 49217 Web Masters 3218 Xerox India Ltd. 121219 Zeneses Polymers 43220 Zenith Rubber Pvt. Ltd. 56221 All India Federation of Master Printers (AIFMP) To be Allotted222 ASK Trade & Exhibitions To be Allotted223 Association of Label Printers & Suppliers To be Allotted224 COEX Co., Ltd. To be Allotted225 Digital Impressions (Sumi Publications) To be Allotted226 Indian Agro & Recycled Paper Mills Association (IARPMA) To be Allotted227 Indian Journal of Printing Technology To be Allotted228 Indian Paper Corrugated & Packaging Machinery Manufacturers’ Association To be Allotted229 Indian Printer & Publisher To be Allotted Packaging South Asia230 International Trade and Exhibition India Pvt. Ltd. To be Allotted231 Kerala Master Printers Association To be Allotted232 Labels India To be Allotted233 Madurai District Offset Printers Association To be Allotted234 MSME To be Allotted235 Paper in Pack To be Allotted236 PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry To be Allotted237 Print & Publishing To be Allotted238 Print and Pack World To be Allotted239 Printing Review To be Allotted240 Printing Samachar (Raj Publication) To be Allotted241 Reed Manch Exhibitions To be Allotted242 Screen Print India (Aditya Publication) To be Allotted243 Screen Printers’ Association of India (SPAI) To be Allotted244 Spry Media (Screen Tex) To be Allotted245 The Packman To be Allotted246 The Regional Institute of Printing Technology Alumni Association (RIPTAA) To be Allotted

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customers together with the stock and sale of spare parts in conjunction with its team of round-the-clock technicians. “Post sales services according to me is the most important factor for the success of a company. We hold the practice of preventive maintenance in high regard. Our engineers service the machines on a regular basis preventing and averting foreseeable breakdowns. As a result, we rarely get sudden service calls and this helps us retain our customers,” says Sarin.

“The market always reacts according to the service that it receives. The demand will always be healthy if a particular company provides efficient services to its customers. Based on the enquiries that we are currently receiving, I can predict 20% growth over the next year for the industry,” adds Sarin.

According to him, GST impacted the packaging industry and caused a slowdown although he believes that it is good for the industry in the long run and that its positive effects are already apparent and should lead to

VIg graphIcs to trIplE footprInt by End-2019

Service and maintenance – key to equipment sales

The Hindi dailies represent around one-third of the printed newspaper in the

country. Recent examination of the DAVP list of language papers, ABC circulation figures and the IRS 2017 readership survey figures have been decoded by IppStar (www.ippstar.org). These public figures taken together with their own survey data and discussion with expert informants in the language dailies have led to a quantitative understanding together with some thoughts on how the Hindi dailies will progress over the next five years. IppStar has also begun its research of Marathi and Tamil dailies, some of which will be shared in subsequent articles.

The main proposition that we sought to test was that the leading Hindi dailies will continue to grow in editions, color pagination and circulation. It is likely that circulation revenues will increase with a gradual rise in the cover price but this is seen by publishers as merely a way of keeping up with newsprint price rises, which as a rule of thumb may be anticipated to rise at US$ 60 each year given the global shrinkage in demand.

Hindi dailies have cover prices ranging from Rs. 1 to Rs. 5 and the price can vary from day to day, reflecting both pagination changes and a way of increasing prices gradually while moderating customer resistance. Other circulation schemes include sale of annual subscriptions in advance that can be encashed each month in exchange for the daily of one’s choice at discounted rates.

We examined approximately 800 Hindi dailies and divided these into five group according to their circulations which we estimate to be about 5 crore copies or 50 million. More than half this circulation comes from the top 20 newspaper groups while another 1.5 crore copies are produced by the next 145 newspapers. The balance copies are produced by the remaining more than 600 much smaller dailies.

The thesis which is propounded by several leading Hindi newspaper professionals is that in the next five years till FY 2022-23, it is likely that the big groups will continue to expand. And that the smaller dailies especially those that produce 4, 8 and 12 broadsheet pages daily with little or no color and which have circulations below 50,000

Ippstar – thE futurE of IndIan languagE daIlIEs

Major Hindi dailies can flex their muscles in the coming 5 years

copies are likely to effectively close down. (It must also be pointed here also be that in no other Indian language are there so many more dailies in the DAVP list than those with ABC audited circulations.)

IppStar forecasts that with moderate growth the circulation of Hindi dailies will increase by .5 core or 5 million copies in the next five years with the maximum growth accruing to the leading 165 Hindi dailies. In the case of high growth over the next five years the forecast is for a circulation growth of 1 crore or 10 million copies daily which will primarily accrue to the leading 165 dailies and of these the top 20 groups are expected to get the major share. IppStar and its expert informants expect that the bottom 600 dailies will decline in circulation by more than 5% and that many of these will close down.

The thesis of some of the leading Hindi publishers is that the potential readership now demands local, national, international news and infotainment in one place and in full color, a requirement that can only be met with larger resources and at least 20 full color broad sheet pages, with more pages for supplements and festival season advertising opportunities. This indicates that only the leading Hindi daily newspaper organizations have access to the capital and resources to provide these type of products. In fact, one can expect several scenarios in which the leaders compete to expand in terms of geography, demographics and even omni-channel media. z

– Naresh Khanna with inputs from Gaurav Mishra

Hindi dailies have cover prices ranging from Rs. 1 to Rs. 5 and the price can vary from day to day, reflecting both pagination changes and a way of increasing prices gradually while moderating customer resistance.

“The market always reacts according to the service that it receives. The demand will always be healthy if a particular company provides efficient services to its customers. Based on the enquiries that we are currently receiving, I can predict 20% growth over the next year for the industry.”

Established in 1995 in Faridabad in Delhi/NCR, Vig Graphics offers engineering and

automation solutions for the printing and packaging industry. Led by its owner and director Vikram Sarin, the company has established itself as a supplier of autoplaten diecutters and flute laminators across North India.

Vig Graphics manufactures automatic flute laminators, whereas its autoplaten diecutters contain mechanical components produced in China for manufacturing and assembly in India. There is a specially designed stream feeder built for the quality

challenges of local paperboard, as well as sensors, PLCs, VFDs, contactors and motors of European standards in the machine. Vig Graphics recently added corrugation and automatic laminating machines to its arsenal. While these machines incorporate modern technology, the company also refurbishes older machines for its customers by changing specific parts and adding newer technology for optimizing the performance and life of these machines.

As a strong believer in preventive maintenance, Sarin suggests strict maintenance schedules to its

healthy growth in coming years. “We feel that the Chinese penetration in the Indian market has proven to be unhealthy for the industry as it is leading to proliferation of low-value, low-quality equipment and decreased machine life . . . . To address Chinese domination in the Indian market, we need to create awareness through magazines and other forums regarding the consequences of using low-grade machines. It would be

helpful if the government decides to step in to support the industry,” Sarin adds.

After covering most of northern India, Vig Graphics plans to expand sales in the eastern and western regions as it sees an untapped potential in these markets. The company is very positive about the future and expects its footprint in the market to grow by three times by the end of 2019. z

Vikram Sarin, director, Vig Graphics

The Indian Printing Packaging & Allied Machinery Manufacturers’ Association

(IPAMA) marked its participation in Collate 2018 exhibition with 27 Indian companies under its umbrella. The event, held at Colombo, Sri Lanka from 16 to 18 March 2018, had exhibitors showcasing the best and the latest in printing and packaging technology to the Sri Lankan market. The show was organized by the Sri Lanka Printers Association, which will also partner with IPAMA in promoting PRINTPACK INDIA in February 2019.

At the event, the Indian exhibitors held healthy discussions with representatives of various Sri Lankan companies on different topics. On the concluding day, some of the Indian participants showed interest in participating again. With a significantly enviable footfall, consisting of major business visitors from Sri Lankan who showed interest in Indian machinery, Collate 2018 was

heralded as a successful show. There were also a good number of visitors from neighboring countries.

IPAMA also had independent stand during the show in which brochures and other promotional material provided by its members were displayed.

PRINTPACK INDIA 2019 is scheduled to be organized by IPAMA at India Expo Centre, Greater Noida from 1-6 February 2018. As on 21 March 2018, 258 exhibitors have already booked their space for participation and have been allotted priority numbers. Space will be allotted to the participants according to the priority number. The layout plan is also being prepared and will be uploaded on the website shortly. IPAMA has fixed 31 March 2018 as the last date for availing early bird discount of Rs. 500 per square meter. Participants who pay 10% of the total space rental before the aforementioned date can avail the benefit.

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IPAMA participates in Collate 2018 in ColomboNFPA to promote PRINTPACK INDIA 2019

Currently, IPAMA is signing agreements with various associations and organizations for promoting PRINTPACK INDIA 2019. On 21 March 2018, a delegation led by KC Madhav, president, Federation of Nepal Printers Associations (NFPA) met S Dayaker Reddy, president of IPAMA, at its corporate office in Noida wherein Naveen Gupta, general secretary, Prashant Vats, executive secretary and other officials were present. The delegation was welcomed by Reddy and other office bearers of IPAMA. During discussions, it was agreed that NFPA will promote PRINTPACK INDIA 2019 in Nepal and also mobilize participation. Reddy shared that the exhibition will provide a unique opportunity to the Nepalese business community for investment and exploring possibilities for setting up joint ventures.



CK is a printer-publisher. I work for an MNC. We have been friends for a while now.

CK feels the karmic reason for his existence is to be my conscience keeper. And I don’t usually mind it.

This is the governing principle of our friendship.

CK plays his role well — making me stay away from making decisions, good or bad. He does this over long-lasting phone calls; my phone drains its juice and along go the ideas on my mind.Phone rings – “Hello!”

CK (Annoyed) – “Don’t you feel guilty of helping an MNC establish itself as the leader in its field in India? Why don’t you help an Indian manufacturer, instead? Haven’t you heard of our PM’s great initiative called ‘Make in India,’ which will provide a market for Indian products, not only in India but across the globe.”

CK continues, “And when our leader is globetrotting, trying to sell our products, you promote a global giant at the cost of many deserving MSMEs who can give you a similar product.”

The phone disconnectsThat was my friend losing his cool.

I could hear a lion roar, somewhere in the background.

I was disappointed. Despite so many articles, reviews, discussions and ‘news at 9s’ around this subject, even my learned friends like CK had no idea about the concept of ‘Make in India.’

‘Made in India’; ‘Made for India’; ‘Made against India’; ‘Can be made in India’; ‘Can’t be made in India,’ and all these suggestions combined together form ‘Make in India,’ right?

I call up CK. No answer.The landline is answered by his wife.

Regular pleasantries are replaced by swearing. As CK comes on the line, I can hear: “Why does he have friends

who make him lose his sleep?” CK is still sore with me for being the

single largest stumbling block to the ‘Make in India’ dream. Without taking any further risks of him cutting me off, I invite him for attending a special screening of the movie ‘Gandhi.’

CK sits with his eyes glued on Ben Kingsley, tears trickling down, sobbing at times and in the end when even his kerchief starts crying, I loan him mine.

I ask him for a walk after the show. The lion starts roaring again – “Do

you have any nationalism left in you? Didn’t those historic moments in our freedom struggle, which were so beautifully depicted in the movie, wake up the Indian in you?” I reminded him that I did loan him a wet kerchief.

I cannot take this any further; the last gaali I want him to call me was anti-national. Yet, I did not dare remind him that the movie was made by Richard Attenborough: I did not want to see him crushed. Over a dozen cutting chais and vada pavs, I go on the offensive, trying to trash his misconceptions.

“The MNC I work for, manufactures products in Indian factories, employs five thousand people in these factories, all Indians. And Indians are at key positions in their offices and factories in other parts of the world, too. They provide best-in-class products cost-effectively to our Indian customers so that they can improve their quality without resorting to imports. Tell me, what is anti-Indian in this?”

“But they repatriate the profits back to their countries.”

“After paying all taxes in India, right? And as against these, the small-scale manufacturer friend of yours employs less than 100 people. Both are making in India, having factories in India, using Indian labor, raw material

Make in India

progressed further to services that added more value. It was different in the case of India where we moved to services from agriculture. While this helped in the creation of more jobs, modern services needed highly skilled and trained people, bodies who cannot just migrate from farming.

“Manufacturing has the potential to provide more jobs as the growth in services may not result in a similar growth in employment. Agriculture provides the lowest wages and as you move to manufacturing or services, the income improves. In short, you cross the poverty line, somewhere in between. That’s what Korea and China did.”

CK interrupts. “Again China? Why do you want us to follow China? This is why I say you are not patriotic.”

“But CK, let’s not forget this – 25 years of liberalization and growth in industry resulted in half a billion people emerging out of poverty in China. Is it not something for all of us to cheer about?

“We need to be worried about the 400 million poor in India, the numbers that can swell if we do not find enough jobs for new ones. So, Make in India with a branding of the lion is nothing but a branding of our national

manufacturing mission, that needs to find one hundred million jobs in ten years, and this is the biggest challenge faced by our nation till now.

“More than the Indian manufacturers making for the world or brands from India succeeding in global markets, the need of the hour is for large corporations to set up factories in India, generating opportunity to unskilled or semi-skilled labor.

“What will make them invest here? Maybe government initiatives to bring in labor reforms, infrastructure and so on; but a key benefit for them will be the huge potential of the domestic market.”

“You mean to say that we are inviting large global corporations to come and invest in India, use our cheap labor and then compete with Indian manufacturers to sell their products in India; and then the Indian companies close shop and more people lose jobs?”

The lion’s roaring is now a changed tune, more like a wolf and he has stopped ordering more chai.

It is time for me to keep mum ...“I don’t know. I am treading an

unknown zone. It has issues and dangers on both sides. We need to find jobs; we also need to protect jobs. If

This tale of the narrator’s encounter with a printer publisher friend, attempts to explore the true sense of ‘Make in India’ – a concept that we all seem to have misunderstood. Hopefully this is the first of several articles on similar themes to be written by Indian print and packaging equipment, consumable and software manufacturers.

By PalliPPuram Sajith

wine. Unable to bear a silent lion, not

hungry anymore, looking at escape routes, I provoke him further. This time with numbers. “Fifty percent of labor in India is employed by the agriculture sector. And this contributes just 15 percent to our economy.

“The service sector that includes the IT sector, employs 30 percent of the labor pool, but is responsible for 60 percent of India’s GDP. The rest is contributed by manufacturing.

“India’s GDP has been growing at three times the rate of employment in the last few years. From now, for the next ten years, we will add ten million youth to the labor pool, every year.

“Agriculture employment is declining by 5 million every year. As against this, we have been able to grow jobs by about 7 million per annum in the last decade and this includes low paying construction jobs and the government rural employment schemes.

“Imagine the unrest, if we can’t bridge the gap?

“The developed nations progressed from agriculture to more productive manufacturing during the industrial revolution. At peak efficiencies, they

either sourced locally or imported — in similar percentages — and which one do you think is more beneficial for India?”

CK takes more time to gulp down the sip of tea, as though tasting

what the economists say is true, then there are no simple solutions.

“Starting with the question – Why should the large corporations come to India — with so many fundamental issues like archaic labor laws, poor infrastructure, complex land acquisition policies — if home-grown brands provide more employment opportunities?

“The biggest issue is the scale; it’s not about hundreds but millions of jobs.”

It’s December and the night is cold. CK has gone back to sulking. I wish I had Bapu with me. z

Pallippuram Sajith is the Director of Welbound India. He can be reached at [email protected].

“You mean to say that we are inviting large global corporations to come and invest

in India, use our cheap labor and then compete with Indian

manufacturers to sell their products in India;

and then the Indian companies close shop and more people lose

jobs?”



Established in 1979 as a commercial printer, Suria Press in Malaysia has over time

diversified successfully to paper-based packaging. The company recently installed Autoprint’s inspection system-Checkmate 50 manufactured in Coimbatore in South India. Moving to paperboard packaging industry since the mid 1990’s Suria’s plant is state of the art with automated offset presses, autoplaten diecutters, folder gluers, coaters and laminators.

Being quality-conscious, and to serve its customers with full integrity and defect free packaging is essential since these comprise leading pharmaceuticals & FMCG industries. With product quality and on-time delivery being vital, having an inspection machine to find defects while simultaneously reducing and eliminating manual quality checking processes was important. It is not only suggested but also crucial to have an inspection machine that can conduct error-free inspections of the cartons at high speed.

Suria’s decision makers looked at and met with a few inspection machine manufacturers and in the course of their search visited Autoprint in Coimbatore in South India in November 2017. They were convinced with the Autoprint’s Checkmate 50 machine due to its superior quality of checking and its speed.

Autoiprint’s carton inspection system-Checkmate 50 installed at Suria Press in Malaysia

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Suria Press, Malaysia installs Autoprint’s Checkmate 50

“We strongly believe that it will be the key to further enhance our deliveries and quality control. We are happy with the Autoprint’s new inspection machine and look forward to our continuous association.”

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At Printpack India 2017 in Greater Noida, the Provin Technos and RMGT team hold regular demonstrations of the RMGT 920ST 5-color plus coater with LED curing press.

In a recent interview in Hyderabad, IPAMA president Dayaker Reddy said that the organizers

are looking to organize multiple knowledge-sharing programs during the expo. “We have been having knowledge-sharing programs at Printpack but these were for a day or two at most. But during PRINTPACK 2019 we are looking to organize such knowledge-sharing events on all the days of the event. These programs will deal with a range of topics relevant to the printing and packaging industry. Initiatives such as these can be very useful for visitors and also for the exhibitors who want to be seen as innovators and want to talk about technology and other user topics. It is also an opportunity for our industry leaders to share their experiences and knowledge with the community,” shared Reddy.

“Response from the industry for PRINTPACK 2019 has been tremendous so far and close to 250 exhibitors have confirmed their participation for the expo, said Reddy. IPAMA has been focusing on bringing

multIplE knowlEdgE-sharIng EVEnts at prIntpack 2019

From event marketing to knowledge and networking event“We have been having knowledge-sharing

programs at PRINTPACK but that would be on a day or two. But during PRINTPACK 2019 we

are looking to organize such knowledge-sharing events on all the days. These programs will deal

with a range of topics relevant to the printing and packaging industry. Initiatives such as

these can be very useful for visitors.” Dayaker Reddy, president IPAMA,

at the Printfair in Hyderabad

exhibitors from a variety of segments such as digital and offset printing, postpress, flexible packaging, labels, corrugation, screen printing and textile printing, among others.”

“We are targeting to bring 600 exhibitors and are confident we will get at least 550 for PRINTPACK 2019. In terms of visitors also we expect the numbers to be higher than last time. In fact, we are working to get 300 to 400 of the biggest printers of the country to

the expo,” Reddy shared. So that PRINTPACK 2019 has

a wide variety of exhibitors and visitors, IPAMA has already signed MoUs with major Indian industry associations such as the Association of Label Printers and Suppliers (ALPS), the Indian Paper Corrugated and Packaging Machinery Manufacturers’ Association (ICPMA) and the Screen Printers’ Association of India (SPAI).

– Shardul Sharma

Service is the key

The Checkmate 50 is rigid in structure, with reliable technical camera components and user-friendly software that can be customized. Moreover, Autoprint’s personnel provided the support and hand-holding that new customers may require and even demand. Suria found that Autoprint personnel were knowledgeable and supportive, which enhanced their confidence in their after-sales-service and support. The machine was installed at Suria Press

in January 2018 and the spokesperson from the Suria Press states, “We strongly believe that it will be the key to further enhance our deliveries and quality control. We are happy with the Autoprint’s new inspection machine and look forward to our continuous association.” z

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The Plastindia exhibition in Gandhinagar from 7 to 11 February 2018 showed the

strength of the Indian and South Asian packaging industry, and particularly its flexible packaging segment. A standout aspect of this show was the remarkable mix of leading global manufacturers and a high number of Indian manufacturers of masterbatches, films, rollers, extruders and dies and printing, converting and filling and sealing equipment. There were also many manufacturers of equipment that are needed to turn plastic waste into small pellets and fine plastic powder in order to make various recycled products.

As far as gravure printing machines, the leading Indian manufacturers such as Kohli, Pelican and Expert are already well known for their newer and faster automated presses. Indian-made laminators were also one of the highlights of the show, including the new SP Ultraflex Roboslit Plus slitter rewinder running at 1,000 meters a

Made in India – Faster automated gravure and CI flexo presses are coming

as Echaar, Ishan International and Innovative Flexotech are also building wide web CI flexo presses. Of these five manufacturers, three are working with Italian technical collaborators and building gear-less presses with a considerable degree of automation.

Global manufacturers are upbeat about Indian developments

Interestingly, the major global manufacturers of flexible packaging presses at Plastindia were actually quite upbeat about the technology improvements of the Indian manufacturers. They seem to think that this will expand the market and allow them to highlight the higher technology features and efficiencies of their own equipment. They are encouraged both by the enhanced technology of locally manufactured equipment and the impending sustainability compliance issues which they hope will extend to operator and plant safety.

The perception is that the induction of automation components and precision manufacturing will eventually enlarge the customer base for higher technology and greater overall efficiencies that go hand in hand. The result should be higher quality plastic-based packaging that is produced efficiently and with sustainability, health and safety coming to the forefront of the overall project and system discussions. z

capable of running at 450 meters a minute. Manugraph was also at the shared Multigraph stand with its Italian technical collaborator Comiflex highlighting the gradual manufacturing program for its gear-less CI flexo press. The first press—a CKD installation—is already being installed at a flexible packaging printer in North India. The Multigraph marketing combine has been exporting Multitec’s narrow web label presses and has also sold a good number of Kohli Industries’ gravure presses to the domestic market while Kohli has itself exported perhaps a slightly higher number.

Jayesh Pathare of Exzone Solutions, who sells green technologies for flexible packaging, showed us the Honeywell System for measuring the solvent content of the air being evacuated from the dryers of the Perfect Printgraph ELS stack flexo press. This system can help improve the efficiency of the solvent recovery system, which is going to become essential for flexible packaging presses as they meet with plant audits by brand owners and government regulations.

Made in India CI flexo pressesIt’s clear that while flexible

packaging in India is still dominated by gravure and converters are increasingly looking at precision built automated presses above 400 meters a minute, flexography made an unprecedented showing at Plastindia.

Kaku Kohli of Kohli Industries in front of the companies solvent less laminator at Plastindia 2018

minute—reliably claimed to be the fastest flexible packaging machine manufactured in India. What was exciting about the new Roboslit plus running at 1000 meters a minute was the smooth acceleration to full speed accompanied by the quiet whining sound emanating from the evacuating fan that sounds like a well-insulated mini jet engine. Needless to say, the slit and rewound reels were perfectly neat and clean.

Indian customers for gravure and flexo presses and converting equipment including laminators are increasingly looking at more sophisticated machines, such as the new Uflex co-extrusion twin laminator also shown in Gandhinagar, and at higher quality, faster speeds and quicker job changes—all of which point to greater automation and ease of changeovers as well as the use of better film substrates and inks so that the entire system is productive as well as compliant with increased regulations for safety, health and the environment.

Jayesh Pathare, application head-Flexible Packaging of Exzone Solutions with the Honeywell solvent measuring system attached to the hot air evacuation system of the Perfect Printgraph ELS stack flexo press in Hall 7 at Plastindia 2018

Several Indian manufacturers are coming to market with locally manufactured wide web CI flexo presses at a variety of cost, quality and automation levels. With the coming of digitally engraved flexo sleeves, one can look forward to a wider expansion and acceptance of CI flexo printing in India for flexible packaging.

Apart from Manugraph, who has already installed one CI flexo press that it imported, Uflex has begun to conduct live trials of its highly automated Uflexo CI flexo press. Other Indian manufacturers such

Technical and marketing collaborations

A new feature of the Indian manufacturers is collaboration with each other and often with leading international consultants and technology partners. We met some of the players in the Multigraph Machinery group, including its president Hiten Mehta, who is also the owner of Perfect Printgraph, and Kaku Kohli of Kohli Industries, who manufactures both gravure presses and laminators, and later with the top management of Manugraph. This is a joint marketing project in which Multigraph group offers a range of Indian manufactured equipment to domestic and global customers. From narrow web label flexo presses to wide web gravure and flexo presses and laminators, there is a common sales organization for most markets.

At the joint Multigraph stand, Perfect Printgraph showed an electronic line shaft (ELS) stack flexo press with high quality registration while Kohli Industries showed its solvent-free Gaia laminator

Uflex stand at Plastindia 2018

L-R: Pradeep Shah, managing director, Manugraph, Luigi Carraro, president, C&C Flexo Srl and Sanjay Shah, Vice - Chairman & Managing Director, Manugraph at Plastindia 2018.

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Mumbai-based SP Ultraflex’s participation at the 2018 edition of Plastindia was the

third time the company was exhibiting at India’s flagship show for plastics and packaging. At Plastindia 2018, the company gave a live demonstration of its most basic slitter rewinder PRIMASLIT FL and the latest version of ROBOSLIT—the ROBOSLIT plus. With the introduction of ROBOSLIT plus, the series now has four variants: ROBOSLIT plus, ROBOSLIT RL (Rear Loading), ROBOSLIT OHP (Overhead Path) and ROBOSLIT FSU (Free Standing Unwind).

During the show, the focus for SP Ultraflex was also to show visitors the evolution of ROBOSLIT Dual Turret Slitter Rewinder since it was first launched in 2012. The showstopper at the SP Ultraflex stand was the ROBOSLIT plus, which ran at its maximum speed of 1000 meters per minute.

“Ours was one of the few stands at Plastindia where the machine ran at its maximum speed. In fact, to the best of my knowledge, never has a slitter rewinder been run at 1000 meters per minute at any expo at the international level as well,” says Biku Kohli, managing director, SP Ultraflex.

Kohli stresses that to make the ROBOSLIT plus run at its full speed of

SP Ultraflex team at Plastindia 2018. Photo PSA

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SP Ultraflex debuts ROBOSLIT Plus dual turret slitter rewinder with 1000 m/min speed

customers opting for this machine instead of a European brand,” he says.

Kohli shares that six ROBOSLIT slitter rewinders are under manufacture and will be supplied to customers by the middle of this year.

Not only did SP Ultraflex have a healthy footfall at its Plastindia stand, the company was also awarded exhibitor’s award for the best stand.

Exhibiting the ROBOSLIT Plus overseas

With the launch of the fully loaded ROBOSLIT plus, SP Ultraflex now rubs shoulders with leading European brands, prompting them to turn their vision to international events as well.

“We are very keen to show this machine at a premium international event soon. We have not taken a final decision, but it will be either interpack or K or even drupa,” he informs. z

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1000 meters per minute for more time and get maximum mileage out of the high speed, the automation division of the company has successfully managed to shorten both the ramp up and ramp down times to 45 seconds. Needless to say, such fast acceleration and de-acceleration requires an extremely precise and responsive tension control system at both unwind and rewind ends, apart from a very sturdy and mechanically sound machine, in order to retain the stability and alignment of the substrate and avoid vibrations usually associated with such high speeds.

Talking about the response received at Plastindia, Kohli says that the company was able to book four orders for its PRIMASLIT FL at the expo. The company also got some serious inquiries for the ROBOSLIT plus, and is bullish about some of them converting soon.

“Quite a few inquiries were received for the ROBOSLIT plus and we expect this machine to join the mainstream sooner than foreseen. We are targeting our current customers as well as new customers for the ROBOSLIT plus. Given the premium nature of this model, we can see a lot of discerning

“Ours was one of the few stands at Plastindia where the machine ran at its maximum speed. In fact, to the best of my knowledge, never has a slitter rewinder been run at 1000 meters per minute at any expo at the international level as well.” – Biku Kohli

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E stablished in the year 1963, Sheth Printograph initially traded in letterpress printing

equipment. Subsequently, the company manufactured and exported

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Neeraj Sheth and Sonal Sheth, directors of Sheth Printograph

The fi rst country to which Sheth’s

machines were exported was Bangladesh – initially at a rate of a

machine each week. Slowly, exports

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East Asia. China was not an open economy in the ‘70s and ‘80s and Sheth Printograph got a chance to explore the Chinese market. When

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Middle East, covering Saudi Arabia,

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in Africa and adjoining countries, Sheth Printograph decided to explore

the African market as well. In Africa,

the company executes turnkey projects

for its clients, right from sourcing raw

materials to supplying machinery, manpower, installation and training.

“Over the years, the Chinese have

managed to penetrate the market

worldwide. Initially, we were offering

machines at affordable prices to a range of customers throughout the world. We had an upper hand because the only countries offering

good quality machines back in those

days were of European origin and their machines were costly. We got an

opportunity to target a set of clients

and offer machines according to their requirements at comparatively

affordable rates,” says Sheth.“In India, the market is evolving.

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packaging, someone operating in the

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digital printing as well for commercial

purposes or small runs. For instance,

there is a customer who is in book printing and who has been a hardcore

commercial offset printer but now, since the volume of books has reduced,

he has ventured into digital. Just like

that, metpet lamination came into the picture so there was a demand for a hot knife cutting system and we offered it. All in all, I think it is important to keep evolving with the

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Brilliant Polymers has commissioned a new 32 ton reactor at its manufacturing

site in Ambernath, Maharashtra. The company is one of the India’s leading suppliers and exporters of laminating adhesives for flexible packaging and currently produces over 14,000 tons of adhesive per annum at its state of the

art manufacturing facility. The new reactor coupled with other

infrastructure and optimization projects will increase capacity to 20,000 tons per year. “We intend to increase our market share in India and in exports markets; our investments in capacity underline our commitment to the flexible packaging industry.

Inside Brilliant Polymers’ manufacturing site in Ambernath, Maharashtra

On 16 February 2018, Komori announced direct participation in sales and servicing of its

offset presses in India by acquiring a majority stake in offset sales operations of its distributor in the country, Insight Communications. The agreement’s implementation will take full effect and ‘get into full speed by 1 April 2018,’ according to a joint statement by the two organizations.

Komori is, of course, a leading manufacturer and supplier of sheet-fed offset, web offset, high-end packaging and security printing presses. Its overseas sales in the fiscal year ended 31 March 2017 accounted for 60.3% of consolidated net sales. Out of all its overseas markets, Komori gives a lot of attention to China, India and ASEAN countries due their robust economies. According to the statement, print demand is expected to grow rapidly in these regions due to booming population growth and burgeoning personal consumption. Keeping these factors in mind, Komori has positioned these countries as priority countries in its growth plans.

Since 2007, Insight has been an aggressive distributor of Komori products and has achieved significant success in terms of the number of presses installed and a leading position in the Indian market in the last three years. With strong relationships in the print industry built by representation of multiple products from global leaders, its marketing and sales has shown a great capacity for reaching across big print clusters and smaller cities and towns. In just ten years it has literally created a new market segment of printers who aspired to purchasing new presses but were hitherto unable to and established a strong footprint of 260 offset press installations. At the same time, it has developed an engineering and support service network.

The joint statement speaks of India’s impressive demographics—a population of 1.3 billion, half of whom are 24 years of age or younger. “The country clearly holds abundant potential for economic growth. Likewise, the market for offset

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Komori acquires majority stake in Insight’s offset press sales operation

Yosuke Hayakawa of Komori and Ajay Aggarwal of Insight sign off on Komori’s acquisition of a majority stake in the offset press sales operations of the Insight group at Delhi on 16 February 2018

Despite strong headwinds on raw materials, with unprecedented price levels on key materials like TDI and MDI, we continue to grow and strengthen our presence in the market. With the new capacity coming online in February 2018 and with our strong promise of Technology, Quality and Service with every supply, we are confident of moving into a leading position in India” says Gaurav Talwar, managing director, Brilliant Polymers Pvt. Ltd.

With its innovative range of products, Brilliant has seen robust growth rates over the last five years. The company offers a complete range of solutions for the flexible packaging industry from standard performance to high performance applications. Its products are designed to provide unique properties and afford excellent levels of performance in terms of heat and chemical resistance, optical properties coupled with high initial tack and fast cure rates. z

Nirav Patel, director, Arvind Rub Web Controls at Plastindia 2018

Ahmedabad-based Arvind Rub Web Controls is a leading manufacturer and exporter

of web control solutions primarily for the print and packaging industry in addition to the textile and paper industries. It manufactures industrial rubber rollers, quick change sleeves, rotogravure printing rollers,

flexographic printing rollers, wrinkle removers, core holding devices, ink circulating pumps and safety chuck and corona treatment tube.

The packaging industry is Arvind’s biggest revenue generator inlcuding customers from major Indian and global OEMs. In addition to displaying its established web control solutions at

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Arvind shows sleeves for direct engraving of seamless CI flexo plates

Plastindia, Arvind officially launched it new rubber roller grinding machine. “This new offering has already been installed at several locations. A few of these machines were installed about two months before the official launch here at Plastindia,” says Nirav Patel, director, Arvind Rub Web Controls.

Arvind Rub Web Controls has also launched fully ‘Made in India’ joint-less engraved rubber sleeves for CI flexo, which have been extensively tried at a few customer locations. “We are going to aggressively promote this product in the Indian market. Currently, most of the joint-less engraved rubber sleeves for CI flexo are imported so these made in India joint-less engraved rubber sleeves will be of great benefit to Indian customers,” Patel shares. Ahmedabad is to soon have a direct laser engraver for producing sleeve plates for the flexo market. z

– Shardul Sharma

printing presses is expected to grow at a much higher rate, exceeding the country’s GDP growth rate,” it says.

“To seize these opportunities, Komori decided to acquire majority stake in Insight Communications and Print Solution India Pvt. Ltd. and make it a subsidiary. The aim is to penetrate the Indian market even deeper. Not only does this move aim to boost sales of Komori offset printing presses, the acquisition of these shares is expected to help Komori and Insight engage in closer collaboration.”

Satoshi Mochida, president and chief operating officer, Komori Japan says, “We believe that these initiatives will help local printing companies better utilize high-value-added printing solutions and enhance the efficiency of their operations, thereby contributing to the development of India’s printing industry.” According to Sangam Khanna of Insight Communications, “It will result in Komori getting closer to the Indian customers and provide much better service, enhance product reliability and provide information and communications technology (ICT) solutions aimed at improving productivity. Future plans include creating various products tailored to meet local Indian requirements.”

Ajay Aggarwal of Insight says, “The new organization plans to adopt the best of both the local and global as the current team will continue to handle operations in India with enhanced support, investments and growth engines coming from Komori’s global presence.” Speaking with us on the phone, Aggarwal adds, “Komori will be operating out of our [Insight’s] new premises in Delhi/NCR and the two companies will continue to work closely on sales and servicing. Also, we will handle the western and southern India markets while Komori will more directly look after the northern and eastern India territories.”

Hirofumi Hoshino will be taking over as the managing director of the new venture. He joined Komori in 1977, after getting his degree in mechanical engineering, and was involved in press design and production. A core member of Komori’s Global Sales and Service Group and an associate board director, he has spent time working for Komori America as well as Komori Europe. Sangam Khanna will head the sales and marketing function in the restructured Komori majority owned sales and servicing organization. z

– Naresh Khanna

“The new organization plans to adopt the best of both the local and global as the current team will continue to handle operations in India with enhanced support, investments and growth engines coming from Komori’s global presence.”

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In a world record breaking feat, the printing and packaging division of Nanjangud-based South

India Paper Mills produced 106,113 corrugated boxes in eight hours on 19 September 2017 on its Bobst FFG 8.20 Discovery flexo folder gluer. The achievement is even more remarkable because five separate jobs had to be set up and changed within the eight hours.

“The average of 13,264 boxes per hour includes the set-up and cleaning time during the shift,” says Pratik Patel, manager – marketing and product development at SIPM Printing & Packaging Division. The record-breaking shift involved a fortuitous combination of jobs and customer requirements. Patel explains, “There were in total five job changes performed in this particular shift. One of the jobs was 2-color and the rest were single-color jobs. In particular, one was a beer carton, which is a very lightweight board construction, ie 100 gsm and three layers with B-flute. This kind of job adds more value to us as well as our customers if processed at the fastest speeds with maximum accuracy, so that it runs flawlessly in the fast case erecting and filling lines at the customer’s end.”

SIPM’s printing and packaging division was founded in 2007-08 to specialise in corrugated box making. Situated near the paper mill site on a 48.5 hectare plot, the main production

takes place in a single-storey 16,000 square meter factory. It supplies to multi-national consumer product companies including GSK, RB, Britannia, ITC, UB, USL, RSIL, Adani Wilmer, Nestle, American Power Conversion, Unilever and Coca Cola.

“We have a much diversified portfolio, with our carton boxes are supplied to various industry segments such as food, beverages, alcohol and spirits, edible oils, copier paper, fresh agricultural produce, white goods, automobiles, footwear, textiles and many others,” says Patel. Most deliveries are within a 250 to 300 km radius, though some special orders may travel up to 1,000 km away within India.

The division employs 97 people in production, maintenance, sales and administration. It has certification for ISO 9001:2008, FSC and an SGS Social Compliance Audit. It operates a state-of-the-art 1.8 meter-wide 5-ply automatic corrugating machine from Agnati and also has a range of converting machines from several manufacturers, handling flexo and litho printing, diecutting, printer-slotting, flexo folder-gluing and litho-laminating.

The Bobst FFG 8.20 Discovery flexo folder gluer was installed earlier in 2017 and is the company’s first Bobst machine. Supplied by Bobst India, it takes sheets up to 2,180 mm wide and has four flexo printing units. Running

South India Paper Mills team with the Bobst FFG 8.20 Discovery flexo folder gluer

at full speed it can produce up to 300 boxes a minute (18,000 an hour) on coated and uncoated duplex board with white or kraft liners of all types. It is run inline with a Mosca strapper/palletizer.

“We have a range of single-color, two, three and a few 4-color jobs,” explains Patel. “The Bobst machine is intended to be effectively used in changing many single or 2-color orders, to cater for a wide range of segments with a just-in-time supply concept. This ensures the best use of available resources to retain a competitive edge in the market.”

The operating crew on for the record-breaking production shift were BM Jagadish and HK Santosh. “To hold a record for producing good quality boxes can never be an accident,” says Patel. “Neither can it be an effort only of the operating crew. The first thing that comes to all of our minds while running the machine at the fastest speeds is a feeling that we are walking on the path and vision given by our managing director, Manish Patel. We the managers have an opportunity to show our skills and planning abilities under the constant guidance of our top management. But surely for that day all credit goes to the supervisory team and the operators Jagadish and Santosh!” z

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South India Paper Mills’ world record using FFG 8.20 Discovery

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The year 2017 was a record year for the import of pulp used for papermaking in Asia.

China has led this growth over the past ten years and if its consumption growth for lumber and pulp were to continue, it would consume the entire world’s forest products in a few years, according to industry commentators. Although Chinese president Xi Jinping has tempered the unlimited growth of the country’s construction industry, its paper industry continues to demand pulp as do Japan and India.

Pulp prices have hardened recently with major pulp producers shutting down for annual maintenance simultaneously with China banning the import of and use of ‘mixed paper’ or paper waste. Hardwood pulp prices have hardened and hit a 7-year high in the US$ 770 per ton range while softwood pulp is in the US$ 660 per ton range. This represents an increase of more than US$ 240 a ton in the last six months.

India, which suffers from a huge fiber shortage, still produces some pulp from bamboo, eucalyptus and other types of trees, which is suitable when used together with waste paper for manufacturing writing and graphic papers. With the import customs duty at nil since May 2012, the industry currently imports about 1.25 million

asIan dEmand Is raIsIng global pulp prIcEs

Paper prices are likely to move up in India

tons of pulp for paper making. This is in addition to considerable

(more than 3 million tons) newsprint, paper and paper board used for high quality packaging imported at various customs rates. Leading industry associations such as Assocham have argued for the imposition of a 10% customs duty on pulp which would, according to it, encourage the forestry farming industry in the country as well as the paper industry. Assocham estimates the shortfall of domestic pulp could be met with harvesting approximately 160 million trees annually.

Undoubtedly, the currently high price of pulp imports will impact the manufacture of the buoyant writing, printing paper and paperboards. It will especially put further price pressure on the carton market, which uses imported pulp to produce high quality paperboards that are made from imported virgin pulp. Together with increases in fuel costs and chemicals, printers, publishers, print buyers and packaging converters should be prepared for another round of paper price increases in next few months. z

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India, which suffers from a huge fiber shortage, still produces some pulp from bamboo, eucalyptus and other types of trees, which is suitable when used together with waste paper for manufacturing writing and graphic papers. With the import customs duty at nil since May 2012, the industry currently imports about 1.25 million tons of pulp for paper making.

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