Nextgen targets the market with its new KBA
Mahesh Khandelwal, director, Nextgen Printers, explains why. “We are setting up a new packaging unit and wanted a robust and proven press. KBA and another German manufacturer were on our shortlist. After visiting both the companies in Germany, and studying the technologies, we felt that KBA offers better value for money in the long run,” said Khandelwal.
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The machine is a 7 colour plus coater UV Press. “We plan to print metpet, UV drip effects, textures and conventional jobs on various substrates on this machine,” he added.
With this new machine Nextgen, a packaging printing company, is looking to cater to the requirements of its clients all over the Eastern India as well as overseas. “The new investment will multiply our production capacity manifold. It will also give us the market edge much required in today’s competitive scenario,” Khandelwal added.
Mahesh Khandelwal, director, heads the technical department of the Kolkata-based company established in 2009, while Rakesh Khandelwal, director, sales, looks after the sales and Bijay Agarwal, director, finance, takes the lead in managing commercial and legal affairs of the organisation.
With the purchase of the KBA Rapida 105, a 7-colour coater press, which is scheduled to be shipped later this year, Nextgen becomes the first company in Eastern India to install a 7-colour coater UV/conv printing press. The press is equipped with UV inter-deck, as well as end of the press dryers. This will be a raised press with full flexibility of dryers that will allow Nextgen to handle the most complicated jobs in the market. The machine has foil package to handle foils and plastics, automatic camera register, and sensors in the UV module besides non-stop system.
About their plans on investment recovery, Khandelwal says, “We hope to have a targeted sale of about Rs 100 crores in the days to come, and hope to come around in a span of two years. We plan to further strengthen our marketing team to effectively reach out to new clients with innovative packaging concepts.”
Right now, Nextgen has two printing units at Sikkim and Kolkata, while a new unit is coming in Howrah. “We have a 40,000 sq/ft existing area and our new unit will have a 90,000 sq/ft area,” he said, adding that the unit in Sikkim is ISO 9001:2008 certified.
Nextgen is equipped with an array of machines, including single and four-colour Mitsubishi offset printing press, die cutting and pasting machine from Bobst, other manual equipment for finishing the products, offline UV coating facility, fully-equipped pre-press house and full line of quality checking equipment. The packaging printing company specialises in all forms of packaging and converts around 10 tonnes of paper and paper board. The number is expected to rise to 35 tonnes per day.
The company has also invested in Bobst's Expertfold 110A2 folder-gluer with a capability to handle both duplex and 3-ply carton for making straight line, crash lock bottom, 4-corner and 6-corner boxes.