Sanat
Shah holds up the Lifetime Achievment Trophy
The
chief Guest- Manoj Mehta, President, AIFMP lights the traditional lamp
Printers` Day Celebrated With Gusto
Opportunities in label printing
highlighted
The fifth
annual celebration of Printers' Day by the Mumbai Mudrak Sangh on the 17 February
2007 at The Leela was like its predecessor events, an unqualified success.
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Sanat
Shah holds up the Lifetime Achievment Trophy |
The
chief Guest- Manoj Mehta, President, AIFMP lights the traditional lamp |
Apart from a half-day conference on the “Emerging Opportunities for Commercial
Printers in Inline Narrow Web Technologies” the event also featured a full-day
table-top exhibition showcasing twenty leading suppliers of materials, machines,
services and solutions for the label industry. An evening programme was also
organised to facilitate Sanat Shah of Manugraph Industries for a life time pursuing
excellence. Manoj Mehta, President, All India Federation of Master Printers
was the Chief Guest. Other dignitaries included Mohit Jain, Director, Business
& Commercial, Bennet Colemen and Arun Mehta, Past President, AIFMP.
Driven by a buoyant economy touching a growth rate of almost 10 per cent per
annum, increasing consumerism, a boom in organised retail and a thriving FMCG
market, the Indian label industry is seeing unprecedented activity. It is expected
to hit the USD 1 billion mark in revenues during 2007 and will grow at over
20 per cent per annum till at least 2010; by then, it will be producing 6.5
per cent of the world's output of labels. The industry is extremely dynamic
and is equipping itself not only to double output by the end of this decade
but also to bring in cutting edge technologies to move into value-added labeling
systems.
“There is a lot of room for new entrants and commercial printers anyway have
an advantage in the way that they already possess great skills in printing and
handling almost all the label substrates involved. Technology-wise, all they
need to do is to integrate narrow web inline conversion processes with existing
operations,” said Anil Arora on behalf of India Label Show, one of the sponsors.
“The major objectives of the Seminar is to lay out opportunities and potential
applications that are developing in the Label market and what technology options
are available using various narrow web inline conversion processes,” said Anand
Limaye, President of Mumbai Mudrak Sangh. MMS has focused on one such contemporary
subject in each of the previous annual events.
This year's event was supported by Kodak, Micro Inks, the Huber Group and Chemo
and sponsored by Flexo Image Graphics, HP Packard and India Label Show 2008.
The event was co-organised by Print-Packaging.com.
The Seminar started off with an audio-visual presentation by Kodak's Regional
Manager Dnyanesh Bidkar on the range of solutions offered by their Graphic Products
Division for the Packaging and Label industries.
This was followed by a paper entitled “From Commercial Printing To Label Printing”
presented by Ms. Amila Singhvi, Managing Director of International Print-O-Pac
Ltd. (IPP). IPP started off as commercial printers and were one of the first
people in that segment to diversify into label production. She talked about
the process options available and how IPP's transition into the Packaging and
Label markets had been a rewarding experience.
P. Dasgupta, General Manager Packaging Development of Hindustan Lever then presented
the end-users' perspective and elaborated on the emerging trends in labeling
applications. In his paper, entitled “Opportunities in Labels for Commercial
Printers An End-user Perspective”, he highlighted the willingness of industry
to look for better and higher value systems if they could provide superior aesthetics
and functional properties.
He was followed by Manish Kapoor, Sales Manager of Flexo Image Graphics (who
represent Mark Andy the world's leading supplier of label printing/decoration
presses as well as other leading lights like Trucolour, Comco and Rotoflex)
who presented his paper “Opprtunities For Commercial Printers In Inline Narrow
Web Conversion Of Labels”. He pointed out that several technology options are
available and a label manufacturer needs to first work out what capabilities
are necessary. The one big plus factor is that different print and decoration
can be combined into a single inline operation by way of a Combination Press,
details of which can be put together by suppliers like Mark Andy.
K. Nagesh, Country Manager India and SriLanka for HP Indigo then talked about
“Opportunities in Digital Printing of Labels for Commercial Printings”. He said
digital printing is now the only process option available for high quality reproduction
when labels are required in small quantities. It presents a highly suitable
option for “on demand” printing without the usual unproductive lead-times needed
for pre-press plate production and downtime for press set-up. He also said that
digital printing was picking up in the developed world and that HP Indigo is
currently the world's largest supplier of digital presses and the fourth overall
when all kinds of label presses are considered.
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Panel
Discussion on “Opportunities In Labels For Commercial Printers”
-H S Sahni, Nagesh Karuturi, Manish Kapoor, P. Dasgupta, Amila Singhvi
and Arun Rawat |
He was followed
by Harveer Singh Sahni, Managing Director of Weldon Celloplast and one of India's
leading label-stock manufacturers who presented an “Overview of the Label Industry
in India”. He elaborated on the industry trends and said there would be an increasing
shift from conventional wet glue-applied labels to self-adhesive and other value-added
systems like shrink labels, smart labels and security labels.
The finale was a panel
discussion moderated by S. Chidambar, a leading industry consultant and specialist
on Packaging, Printing and Plastics. The panel comprised of all the previous
speakers and Mr. Arun Rawat, a well-known Mumbai manufacturer of labels who
had also made a very successful foray from commercial printing to label production.
Chidambar pointed out the significant opportunities that are going to emerge
in Packaging, especially the Label segment, and how commercial printers, with
their acknowledged skills in printing/decoration and handling of various substrates,
could leverage these strengths by capitalising on the potential areas of growth
through the integration of suitable technologies into their existing operations.
The panel discussion generated lively interaction with the audience on subjects
ranging from comparison and rating of print processes from a quality point of
view to production costs and end-user preferences.
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Visitors
throng the table top exhibition . |
“This has been a great conference. Not only the content was of great quality,
the speakers were well chosen and the organization was thoroughly professional,”
said Sanjay Gaitonde of Procam Graphics.
The table-top exhibition that featured several Indian and international industry
leaders like Weldon Celloplast, Label Planet, Autoprint, Flexo Image Graphics,
Genius, Kurz, Keen Machinery, S. Kumar industries, Creed Engineers, HP etc.
was well attended. “This is a great opportunity to develop contacts with commercial
printers who can become our customers some day,” said Amit Sheth of Label Planet,
the leading supplier of Label Presses to the label printers.
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The
dignitaries on the dias for the facilitiation function: Uday Dhote, Anand
Limaye, Sanat Shah, Manoj Mehta, Mohit Jain, Arun Mehta and Tushar Dhote |
`This is the official start of our visitor campaign,` said Arora on behalf of
India Label Show 2008. He also disclosed plans to hold seminars with the same
theme in other Inidan cities in collaboration with regional printers' associations.
MMS announced the next edition of the Printers' day that will be celebrated
on 23 February at the same venue in 2008.
For more details please contact :
Anil Arora
Label Expositions Pvt. Ltd.
F 101, Tower No. 7, First Floor, International Infotech Park,
Vashi Railway Station, Vashi, Navi Mumbai 400 705.
Tel: 91-22-27812093, 27812619, 27812657
Fax: 91-22-27812578
Date :- 01/03/2007
Source :- Our Correspondent
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