Picture Gallery: Mood upbeat on the eve of Labelexpo India 2016

The four-day Labelexpo India 2016 starting tomorrow at the India Expo Centre, Greater Noida, is expected to accelerate the pace of the label market growth

Monotech (A-5) has a six-colour all-UV servo model Focus Proflex Se, which was launched at Labelexpo Europe in 2015. The new ‘Se’ open architecture print platform allows faster changeover and set up of jobs with easy access for the operator to monitor all key elements such as ink levels, impression pressures, register and drying systems

Tomorrow, Hyden (B-7) will unveil the made-in-India ServoTech B400HS, a bi-directional slitting inspection machine. The machine is equipped with an AVT Helios series inspection camera

Nilpeter (F-15) bestseller in India will take centre stage at the company’s stand. The FB-3300S can produce pressure-sensitive labels with cold foil as well as metallic gold ink printed in gravure. There are more than 30 Nilpeter FB-3300 presses currently running in the Indian subcontinent

Martin Automatic (G-7) will showcase its MBS automatic butt splicing unwinder, first introduced in 1985 with its patented linear sheer splice unit and integrated roll-loading system, has transformed over 900 label presses into non-stop profit making centres around the world

(l-r) Steen Rasmussen of Tresu, Kunal Gandhi and Arun Gandhi of Capital Graphic Supplies (H-1) are gearing up to showcase Tresu Flexiprint supply systems and chambered doctor blades

If specialised label finishing interests you, Pantec’s(H-37) Rhino is a must-see

The PrintWeek India Pre-Press Company of the Year 2016, Noida-based Creative Graphics (C-37) will showcase its platemaking prowess at the show

Reifenhauser(G-18) is targeting pharma segment with this Graphotronic Pharma2, a high speed re-inspection machine

This Chinese company is hoping to make a mark in India with its finishing and converting application. Brotech (M-37) has also joined HP Indigo’s partner programme for finishing solutions

Iqbal Bhagat (l) of Diehard Dies (L-10) informs, the company has now built capacity three times than what it was after setting up a new plant in Guntur. It now produces 200 dies per day

Royal Coat’s (K-25) Sunil Talpade says, LED technology currently makes up the greatest proportion of adhesive curing and inkjet printing, but it is also increasingly requested in label printing. Representing IST Metz, Royal Coat is displaying a range of new IST Metz MBS system in whose housing either a UV lamp or LED technology can be used

While HP Dscoop Asia in Singapore is hosting 200 brands and agencies from all over Asia Pacific, at Labelexpo it has brought its Indigo WS 6800. We hear the machine at the show is headed to Mumbai. In another news, an Indigo 6000 series is under installation at Noida-based Hora Art

Jatinder Julka of Alliance Printech (B-13) is all set to go wide with a brand new series of Neoflex label press

Chennai-based M-Tech(N-19), which partners Brazil-based Etirama for its flexo presses, has installed five Etirama presses in India, informs N Abu

The father-son duo of Weldon Celloplast (C-30), Harveer and Pawandeep Sahni, against the new Omet iFlex, to be shown for the very first time in India

Toyo Ink Group’s (J-7) stand is unique. Its back-lit design concept has been designed by Team Toyo in-house. At the stand it will showcase the Steraflex range of flexo inks

Stovec (SPG Print) (H-7) retrofittable RSI (rotary screen integration) promises to make rotary screen and UV inkjet processes efficient and productive

Represented in India by Srinivas Papers, Polyart (E-20) will showcase a range of PE-based IML substrates

Flexo plate-maker Ankit Darji of Ankit Graphics (K-32), a first-timer at Labelexpo hopes to expand its network pan-India. Based in Ahmedabad, the firm has deployed Screen technology for flexo platemaking

Xeikon (G-15) will demonstrate the 3030 Plus full optimisation with actual label size with its variable width of 8- to 13-inches and unlimited label length due to the unique full rotary technology

‘Packaging simplified’ is the theme at Esko’s stand(A-21), which is shared with DuPont

Moksha Engineering Works (M-10), a greenhorn in the flexo press manufacturing, will flex muscles against both international and Indian players with their fist multi-function modular flexo machine

Tomorrow morning, Konica Minolta (F-21) will give its digital label press C71cf an India debut. In the picture is Vijay Kamat of Konica Minolta

Kodak (L-1) has a mantra of ‘Do more with less’. So it says, it does not have a single product on the stand, but a host of solutions in flexography, offset and inkjet. With 22 installations, the Flexcel NX is by far the most popular piece of Kodak equipment in flexography

PGI Technologies (G-25), formerly Precise Graphics, will launch a three-colour flexo press with a web-width of 330. It will also launch Precicut 330 (in the picture) with turret rewinder, a rotary die-cutting machine with a web width of 330mm

Amit Ahuja of Multitec (L-13 and L-15) is excited about the launch of two new servo-driven presses from: VSI Servo S2 and Ecosmart Servo

At the previous edition, Ahmedabad-based RK Label Machinery (A-15 and F-28) was among the busiest stands selling all the equipment showcased on stand. Will this show be an encore?

Massimo Lombardi, international sales manager, Lombardi (K-5 and K-8) with the Synchroline 430. The Indian representative Vinsak confirms two installations and three more to come

Ahmedabad-based S Kumar will launch Zonten’s ZMQ-320 rotary die-cutting machine with inline slitter. Zonten's intermittent offset presses are managed by Mumbai-based Multigraph