Memory Repro feels PrintPack will usher the trend of automation

At PrintPack this year, the company will display automated and manual case makers, casing-in machines, baking oven for CTP plates with on-line washing and gumming and conveyors, paper knurling machine, video punch and bender, colour registration system for 4-Hi webs, gluing and pasting, plate cleaning machine, thermal lamination with auto cut, bundling and strapping and Sava blankets with barring.

The company is also planning to display a flexo plate mounter, however, hasn’t confirmed as yet. Bal Krishan Khindaria, managing director of Memory Repro Systems and one of the founding members of IPAMA, feels that customer today, needs fast turnaround time. Therefore, automation will be in great demand in the near future.

He also added that with the recent shift towards hybrid printing techniques such as Nano printing technology, it is high time that the industry thinks about investing in digital printing as well as adding packaging printing as one of the pillars company portfolio. 

PrintPack India 2013 is perhaps the first major exhibition in Asia after Drupa 2012. Asked how this would impact the print and allied machine manufacturers, he said, “Owing to the vastness of the Indian market, several printers who are based in the nook and corner of the country remain out of manufacturer’s radar. PrintPack serves as a medium for printers to reach us more easily and conveniently. The enquiries that are generated during the show are collected and processed for the next level of the business relations. That is the dividend which each exhibitor enjoys after participating in exhibitions.” 

Talking about the shift in the venue this year, Khindaria said, “Although it is far off from Delhi’s Pragati Maidan but exhibitors and visitors will be satisfied with the kind of facilities available at the Greater Noida Exposition Centre. Only serious prospective buyers will make it a point to see the exhibits and not the general unconcerned crowd.”