The Inside Story of Yarbal - PrintWeek Award winner
The PrintWeek team visited Yarbal Print-Pack’s plant in Belagavi (Karnataka). The mission: to understand the secret recipe that enabled the company to win the PrintWeek Award for SME Company of the Year in 2023
26 Dec 2023 | By Abhay Avadhani
The company forayed into the packaging industry in 2003 with the installation of a two-colour Komori. Later Team Yarbal opted for an upgraded four-colour press
In 2008, national and regional brands started to care much-more about packaging. And so, Team Yarbal invested in a five-colour Mitsubishi press in 2010
Yarbal Print-Pack possesses three folder-gluers and two carton machines
Team Yarbal believes headline success with manufacturing of cartons doesn’t translate into real numbers unless the manufacturing process is strong
The Belagavi factory also consists of a blanking and three cutting machines, and a Maxima punching machine
Factoid that matters. Rise in icecream consumption drives business in Yarbal. This is across Karnataka, Maharashtra and Goa
Yarbal has an inhouse capacity of 100 tonnes per month. The company hopes to take advantage of the boom in packaging and plans to install another printing line and ink more deals
Packaging underpins Yarbal's rapidly transforming factory - and consumer lives. One of its USP is the leak-proof cartons, for the packaging of oily foods
The Team Yarbal is 100 strong - and are spread across six manufacturing units. The ops is helmed by Amey Patil, director of Yarbal Print-Pack who is busy masterminding the company's next move