More deals expected to be announced during the expo
Bobst India’s stand at the 15 th Printpack India has been witnessing a steady stream of visitors. In the first two days, the company has announced four deals. It has sold a Novacut 106 E die cutter to Jaipur-based Miracle Prints. Bobst India has also sold three Novafold 110 A2 folder gluers, one each to Hyderabad-based Hyper Pack, Ludhiana-based Bharat Box, and Sivakasi-based Focus Print.
“The start to the 15 th Printpack has been exciting for us. We have closed multiple deals in the first two days and there are many hot leads which should translate into deals in the next couple of days. At this expo our attempt is to show our technologies to entrepreneurs wanting to venture into packaging,” said Venugopal Menon of Bobst India.
Bobst India is demonstrating its latest Novacut 106E 3.0 die cutter. The third generation Novacut was launched in 2020. On the folder gluer front, they are showing the Expertfold, which is equipped with the newly launched second-generation Accucheck inline inspection system. Menon said that Bobst is showing an inline inspection system on a f older gluer for the first time in India.
“The second generation of Accucheck offers a much larger scope of inspection. Earlier we were limited to food and pharma. Now it can process cosmetic cartons, met
alized board, foil stamped boxes, and much more,” Menon said.
Talking about the third generation of Novacut, Menon said that Bobst has brought a lot of new features to the machine in terms of automation and feeder, among others. “All these new features will help customers run the machine with minimal stoppages and much faster make-ready time. We have sold more than 40 units of Novacut generation three. The unit on display on our booth is going to Miracle Print,” he said.
The Covid-19 pandemic led to the country-wide lockdown on 25 March 2020. It will be two years tomorrow as I write this. What have we learned in this time? Maybe the meaning of resilience since small companies like us have had to rely on our resources and the forbearance of our employees as we have struggled to produce our trade platforms.
The print and packaging industries have been fortunate, although the commercial printing industry is still to recover. We have learned more about the digital transformation that affects commercial printing and packaging. Ultimately digital will help print grow in a country where we are still far behind in our paper and print consumption and where digital is a leapfrog technology that will only increase the demand for print in the foreseeable future.
Web analytics show that we now have readership in North America and Europe amongst the 90 countries where our five platforms reach. Our traffic which more than doubled in 2020, has at times gone up by another 50% in 2021. And advertising which had fallen to pieces in 2020 and 2021, has started its return since January 2022.
As the economy approaches real growth with unevenness and shortages a given, we are looking forward to the PrintPack India exhibition in Greater Noida. We are again appointed to produce the Show Daily on all five days of the show from 26 to 30 May 2022.
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