Hyderabad gets a new die maker

Hyderabad’s Halftone, a pre-press service bureau turned digital printer, has now further diversified to set up the city’s first and perhaps the only laser die-making facility anticipating the gap in the industry.

25 May 2016 | By Rushikesh Aravkar

When this scribe visited the laser die specialist he was impressed by the nuanced work. This work is backed by a young team which has a remarkably clear-eyed vision of the future of print.
 
Halftone Die Makers started in 1999 as a pre-press service bureau. The company has two Basysprint CTCPs and a TechNova Viostar platesetter. Plus a Xerox 1000 machine. Though the company still caters to its primary business, the CTP services, in 2014 it expanded its offerings to the printing and packaging industry with laser die-making services. Its die offerings consist of flatbed dies to braille to hot-foiling dies and many more.
 
 
The company produces 50 dies per day and caters to printing and packaging converters in South India. The directors, Murali and Shreekanth Nandyala, are well aware of the potential in die-making considering the fact that there are less than ten quality die makers in the country. “German laser cutting machine, Korean balde bending machines, European steel and Russian plywood – the golden recipe of the high quality dies,” says Murali.
 
Along with top-end equipment, the diemaker also has a dedicated customer service team that sets it class apart. Having covered the South Indian market, the company now aims to spread its wings across India with one-day delivery.