Picture Gallery: Daman and Silvassa in the fast lane

Picture Gallery: Daman and Silvassa in the fast lane

Orient Press spread over 13 acre in Silvassa has a carton, gravure, book and security printing division. The carton division houses two Manroland sheetfed presses, three die-cutters and three folder-gluers

Subrata Chakraborty, factory manager at Orient Press is of the opinion that food manufacturing companies are demanding UV treatment for their packaging as it increases the eye-balls of the buyer

The quality control department of Orient Press is equipped to carry out research and development and critical tests

Print sample from each and every batch is stored for future reference. These stored samples can also be used as reference if any complaints arise

The quality parameters, day to day schedule and production details are highlighted and are carried out

Orient Press has also build quarters for its staff. It can house 24 families who work at its Silvassa plant

The open land in Orient Press premises is converted into play ground. This has been done in order to help the staff to enjoy the sport and also to prevent them from wasting their time and money on alcohol consumption in their free time

Team Synergy Packaging also know as SynPac along with the Nilpeter FB-3300 which was ordered and installed in 2008. SynPac’s new press is also a landmark for Nilpeter. It is the first FB-line Servo press to be manufactured by Nilpeter India in Chennai

Nilpeter FB-3300, the 13 inch eight-colour narrow web flexo press is equipped with hot air dryers and interdeck UV curing units. Other equipment includes a movable cold foil unit for fitting between any two print stations, and a drop-in rotary screen cassette from Stork Prints

Param Packaging, a 35,000sq/ft unit in Silvassa houses QC lab, ink kitchen and a solid printing department. It has two Heidelberg CD102 six-colour, one for UV printing and one for conventional printing. The post-press consists of two die-cutting, cutting, lamination and one manual punching machine

Ripan Bhalla, quality assurance manager at Param Packaging, ensures that the jobs which are printed are as per the customers requirement and that each job leaves the premises with quality assurance certificate issued by the company

Ajeet Singh Rajpurohit, plant in-charge, Param Packaging oversees new development for print jobs

Saptagiri Packaging's two acre plant has a raft of Heidelberg presses, three Bobst die-cutters, automatic laminator which laminates colour printed top liner and corrugated board. The company converts 350 tone board every month

The newly installed inner liner pasting machine produces 10,000 liner cartons per day

The finishing department at Saptagiri Packaging is a good instance of women power. More than 100 women, who work on contract. The firm employs women as it feels the levels of concentration is high plus they are efficient

Automatic laminator from China, laminates colour-printed top liner and corrugated board. It features automatic feeding of top sheets and bottom sheets and thereby reduces manpower requirements

A vintage Bobst die-cutting machine runs alongside the Speria die-cutting machine. It can die-cut at the speed of 3,000 sheets per hour

An Indian offline UV curing system cures UV print on substrates like metalised polyester, PP and lenticular

Heidelberg CD 102 with interdeck UV caters to UV jobs. The machine runs 24x7 as a higher number of print buyers are demanding UV treated printed products

D'simran Cartons' 6,000sq/ft plant houses sheetfed presses (PrintMagic) from Manugraph

Shrirang Sahasrabudhe a print professional, who was one of the jury members during PrintWeek India Awards 2010 has left Ergo India to start Zero Grafix, a start up pre-press bureau. The firm has invested in Fujifilm Luxel 8800 CTP platesetter to cater to the printing industry in in Vapi, Daman and Silvassa.

Parksons Graphics' dedicated plant for playing cards. The company has invested in an automatic playing card punching machine to speed up the post-press activity as it is witnessing growing demand

One among the many Manroland 700 eight-colour with coater interdeck UV press at TCPL.

The dust-free finishing department of TCPL. The finishing department consists of multiple Bobst folder-gluers

The Cerutti RDC 10 gravure press which cater to cigarette carton printing

Parksons Packaging, helmed by Ramesh Kejriwal, is multi-located. It has three manufacturing hubs in Daman, Chakan and Pantnagar. The Parksons plant in Daman was the first of the three units

Located in Baddi, Daman and Sharjah, Ajanta Packaging helmed by Chandan Khanna, employs 150 employees. Till date they have invested in ten label presses. The production facility at Daman boasts of three waterless offset presses and one Nilpeter narrow web flexo press. Chandan Khanna is probably the only label convertor in India to use waterless technology for label printing

The ITI PPP (Public Private Partnership) unit in Dharampur (40kms from Silvassa). This is where TCPL is playing a role. The company aims to improve skills and communication of young Adivasis in Gujarat through a print and packaging course