Rossini to supply Made-in-India rollers; inaugurates Pune plant

The 8000 sq/m plant was inaugurated by Italy’s Ambassador to India, Daniele Mancini. The event was marked with the presence of Felice Rossini, president of Rossini Group, accompanied by the next two generations of the Rossini family.

Ashvin Hebbar, director of Scanvik Packaging, which represents Rossini in India since the past 15 years, plus sales director of RIPR, introduced Rossini’s first and the only plant in Asia with an AV presentation.

Hebbar said, “We propose to start with manufacturing rubber rollers at this facility in the initial stages and later expand the manufacturing portfolio to sleeves and mandrels.”

Hebbar introduced general manager RIPR, Marco Caccia, who has shifted to Pune since April 2014 to oversee the operations of the plant. Speaking to PrintWeek India, Caccia said, “The entire factory is designed keeping in mind future expansion plans. We are well equipped to double the capacity as and when the demand increases.”


The plant will produce 1000 rubber rollers per month in the initial stages. In order to maintain the consistency in quality, the raw rubber compounds will be imported from Rossini’s Italy plant, while the steel will be imported as well as procured locally. The plant is equipped with surface grinding machine designed in-house by Rossini.

Caccia stressed on the point that Rossini’s plant in India is to cater to the domestic market in India and have no plans to export from the country. "The existing and the potential demand in India is huge. We see great opportunity here and are geared to expand our presence in the country across our portfolio."

The plant, which was supposed to go in to operation in September, will commence production from December 2014 adhering to the delay in machine installation caused by monsoon.

The event was attended by top names of the flexible packaging industry including Rakesh Shah of W&H and Upendra Deglurkar of Bobst India.