In a conversation with PrintWeek India, Deglurkar said, “India is an important market for Bobst as well as our end customers like FMCG and Pharma companies. My key responsibility is to grow business in India.

This is a newly created position from responsibility point of view.”Deglurkar has a 23 years of extensive and diverse experience of having worked with companies like 3M, Kimberley Clark, Asia Pulp and Paper, to name a few.

Bobst has set-up a demo centre at the Pune facility so as to demonstrate the working of machines to the customers. The Pune plant manufactures Expertfold, the folder-gluer machine. According to Deglurkar the company has planned to source the critical parts from Switzerland and the sheet metal required for structure and other non-critical parts will be sourced locally.

Deglurkar said, “We have recently installed a state-of-the-art laser-cutting machine which can cut stainless steel plate of six millimetres in about eight minutes. This has up-scaled our production capability.”

“We are working on cost reduction by adopting the best practices like kanban, lean etc. I want every packager to have a Bobst machine or at least dream of having a Bobst machine,” added Deglurkar.