Prasanna Venkatesh, general
manager of Zund India, at Printpack
India 2015. Photo PSA
At Printpack India 2015, Zund displayed its high-performance digital cutting table – S3 M800. The digital table features a vacuum plate which holds down the material and is steplessly adjustable across the width of the machine while an energy-efficient vacuum generator provides optimal hold-down. “This is a machine which predominantly goes in the packaging converting segment for sample making, short -run productions, rubber cutting and more. As we expect plenty of packaging converters at the show, we are displaying this machine here,” says Prasanna Venkatesh, general manager at Zund India.
“Since the launch of Zund India, we have not quite come out publicly, although you could read about us in various magazines. So we thought Printpack India 2015 would be a good platform for us to reach out to the Indian packaging segment and send across the message about what we do. However, with participations in more than 70 trade shows worldwide every year, Zund is very well represented globally. The cream of the packaging converters in India already know about us because they travel abroad. But we want the others also to know about Zund – that is our main objective of participating at this event,” says Venkatesh.
Zund S3 M800 features a vacuum plate which holds down the material and is steplessly adjustable across the width of the machine while an energy-efficient vacuum generator provides optimal hold-down
Speaking about the industry and the Printpack event, Venkatesh says, “The packaging industry is growing at a very rapid pace. We have received plenty of serious enquiries at our stand in the last three to four days. However, people are holding on to their investments, probably because of the Budget which is round the corner.”
“Though people appreciate our technology and want to buy our machines, the price is a factor. So we are trying to add value to customers’ business in various ways. We are trying to make people understand that this digital table has the capability of doing multiple things,” concludes Venkatesh.
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