Indore print industry is dreaming big

The All India Federation of Master Printers Association (AIFMP) hosted its 225th Governing Council (GC) meet with the help of the Indore Master Printers Association alongside the IMPA's Print and Pack 2015 show

Around 200 printers from all over India attended the GC meet

The GC meet had technical talks from Faheem Agboatwala, president of BMPA and Mehul Desai, director of Mail Order Solutions. Agboatwala educated the audience on grain direction and Desai spoke about the pre-requisites for export promotions

Atharva is among the four packaging companies in Indore which houses an in-house CTP. The Fujifilm FFEI Alinte violet CTP system at Atharva processes 1200 TechNova plates in a month

90-95% of print-packaging companies in Indore use UV coaters from Autoprint. Atharva is amongst them

Swadesh Sharma says the packaging printers in Indore cater to three segments. These are: pharma, garment and incense sticks. Atharva has a mix of all clients

Raft of manual punching and hot-foil stamping machines. Atharva uses manual punching machines for mock-ups and run lengths less than 4000 sheets

Atharva houses two offset presses as of date, one from Ryobi, four-colour 23x31 inches and another five-colour Planeta, 28x40 inches

100 tonnes of paper board is converted in a month at the Atharva plant

Other carton pasting equipment include, the Bobst Ambition folder-gluer, automatic die-punching machines from Bobst and a liner pasting machine from Rollatainers

The corrugation conversion at Atharva is around 500 sq/metres in a month

Flexo printing machine for printing on corrugated sheets. Atharva produces brown as well as printed corrugated boxes

A two-ply semi-automatic corrugation line

A manual die-cutter for corrugated sheets

Pasting machine for three-ply corrugated sheets. This is where the two-ply sheets/liners gets converted into a three-ply corrugated sheet

Started 65 years ago, Shree Nijanand Graphics has upgraded from a letterpress commercial player till 1995 and producing liquor cartons till 2000. In 2015 it is a 100% packaging printing with a focus on pharma packaging and FMCG

Nijanand has 11 manual punching machines and three hot-foil stamping machines to take care of short-run sheet quantities upto 4000 sheets

Nijanand houses six used four-colour machines, two single-colour Solna presses and one single-colour Heidelberg press

Nijanand has a taste for Made in India machines and this is the reason it has invested in four Made in Indore folder-gluers from Fareed Engineering Works

Three automatic punching machines from Excel Machinery

IMPA's Print and Pack show in Indore had 25 exhibitors. Pratham Technologies from Pune exhibited its 6+6 Fold Vision inspection machine. Pratham has 25 installs of this kit in Indore

Bobst has 28 installs of new and used die-cutters and folder-gluers. New would be 30% of the total share. According Sachin Patil, regional sales manager-west and central India, "Indore converts 30,000 tonnes of board in a year."

Welbound exhibited its PUR ebind 350 of which it is yet to get an installation. Welbound has more than 25 perfect binding machines in Indore, 12 plus six-clamp machines and 13 multi-clamp machines

TechNova showcased the Konica Minolta C1100 bizhub press. According to Puranjit Sarangi, national sales manager, TechNova Imaging Systems, Indore has 30 digital printers printing three lakh A3 sheets/month

Malhotra Graphics showcased its digital post-press solutions which includes digital creasing machine, digital wiro binding machines etc. According to Raghvendra Singh, branch manager-sales and marketing, Indore has seven violet CTP systems

Rajendra Jain, director at Vijayshri Paper Products says, "Because of the announcement of Special Economic Zone (SEZ), there has been a good buzz in Indore for printing and packaging business. This is because multi-national pharma companies have planned to establish a base in Indore."

Vijayshri has two automatic die-cutters. The one in the picture is from Yoco, a brand new die-cutter, one if its recent investments

To supplement the automatic die-cutting, Vijayshri has six manual folding machines which is used for sheet runs of less than 3000

Ayush Jain, director at Vijayshri says Indore is a city where in vendor- printer relation has to be upgraded. Jain feels Indore is a low priority zone for manufacturers and suppliers

Liner-carton pasting machine from Kohmann. This is a Vijayshri specialisation

A pasted liner carton. According to Ayush Jain, there are approximately 25 players in India who produce line-cartons

Vijayshri houses one six-colour 40 inch Komori press with coater, one five-colour 40 inch Komori press, one five-colour 26-inch Komori press, one six-colour 28-inch Mitsubishi

A thermal CTP system from Screen. Perhaps the first in Central India

40% area of the Vijayshri one lakh sq/ft plant is green

Vijayshri, an ISO 9001 company is housed in a 1,00,000 sq/ft area. It has three units, one for packaging printing, one for corrugation and one for notebook making

Orient Pack-N-Prints, a 100% pharma outsert and insert printing company recently invested in a Vijuk pharma leaflet folding machine with 36 folds. In 2015 it will install one more Vijuk with 40 folds. Apart from this the company has 12 Heidelberg printing machines, mix of single and multi-colour and Horizon folding machines

Rajesh Nema of Pragati Graphics runs three businesses in Indore. These are: packaging printing, label division and rotogravure. At the label division they have two Gidues and one more is expected soon. The packaging printing unit has KBA machines. Plus one more in the pipeline

Riddhi Siddhi in Indore is a printing plant which prints incense stick boxes. Ameya Goyal says, 99% of the business is producing boxes for incense sticks and the remaining percent would be for garment." Riddhi Siddhi produces 1.5 crores boxes in a month. They have a flexible packaging division which has three rotogravure machines and one extrusion lamination machine

Anand Srinivasan of PrintWeek India (the author and photographer of the picture gallery) at Welbound's stall with Shyamkant Jha of Print Pack and president of IMPA