Titled as "Print Innovation", Label Manufacturers Association of India's (LMAI) second conference will be held in Goa on 26 and 27 July, 2013 at the Grand Hyatt hotel.
Vivek Kapoor, managing director of Creative Labels and present president of LMAI, who has been appointed as the president for pan India will deliver the keynote at the event along with Anil Sharma of Avery Dennison and Lisa Milburn of Tarsus.
The conference is slated to begin at 4pm in the evening of 26 July 2013, with a welcome speech from Vivek Kapoor. The opening presentations will be delivered by Lindsay Rice of Dupont and Peter Henderson of Esko. Christina Nilsson of Trelleborg, Sweden; will speak on the sleeve technology for flexographic printing followed by a presentation by anIndian labelstock manufacturer Ajay Mehta of SMI. The last speaker for the evening will be Kishore Sarkar of Daetwyler Swiss Tec talking on doctor blades. Ranesh Bajaj of Creed Engineers will initiate the opening on the second day followed by presentation from Carmen Chua of Avery Dennison.
Kapoor said, “Held every alternate year, the 150 plus-member association organises the conference to bring together the biggest names in the label industry to discuss the future of the label industry in India.”
"This year the conference will also witness the sponsors who pitched in to support the last event. The association has brought on board manufacturers namely Avery Dennision,
Dupont, Esko, Flint Group, Refeinhauser, among others, who will present to the audience their latest technology and solutions for the label industry. The presentations at the conference will tap aspects across the latest trends, the best practises and standardisation, and the challenges of the industry. The second day of the conference will see digital players like HP, Epson, Xeikon, SPG, Stovek, demonstrating to the members why they want label converters to buy their equipment," added Kapoor.
The conference will provide the delegates with an opportunity for discussions with all the speakers and participants.
“After the last conference most of the sponsors called back to express their satisfaction that the audience was totally committed and sat attentively to presentations being made, till the very end. The event is receiving an overwhelming response and most of the rooms have been taken at the hotel and we had to request for more rooms. We are requesting the label printers at large to hurry up with their decisions to be in Goa as later it will not be possible to accommodate them," concluded Kapoor.
Label Manufacturers Association of India (LMAI) was formed in 2002. It was few label printers who came together and formed the association. Amit Sheth of Mumbai-based Label Planet, the Indian representative of Orthotec label printing presses was instrumental in forming the association to give an identity to the Indian label printing a unique identity of its own.
The first edition of the LMAI conference was held two years ago in Goa and was titled Innovations Unlimited. The conference witnessed Indian label fraternity which included suppliers and the label printers and was attended by CEO’s from 240 label printing firms in India.