Packaging South Asia

Today’s inkjet printers are brilliant pieces of technology. We all know about desktop and wide format inkjets for photo and poster printing. In the past decade big high-volume industrial-strength wide format printers have steadily encroached into the short-run large format print markets previously dominated by screen process and offset. The past year has seen the introduction of narrow-web format inkjets with UV inks, intended to handle the label and packaging work that’s currently mainly printed by flexography.

Real estate these days, as is evident from the din and blare of its advertising, is in great demand for a variety of reasons. Every piece of land or built-up surface that can be acquired is being “developed” and put to good use. In the same way, product brand-owners, in their attempts to own more and more of their potential customers’ mind-share, seek out and cover the maximum possible outdoor advertising real estate. This ownership manifests itself as brightly painted hoardings and wall paintings popping out of the landscape (sometimes amidst green farmlands) to scream their brand message constantly for the customers’ brief attention.

The winner is Arvind Sekhar of the multi-locational commercial and security printng and label and packaging group — Sai Security Printing and Packaging. Sai Security and Packaging have offices and plants in Bangalore, Delhi, and Faridabad. The group which runs sheetfed presses for book and board printing also runs mid-web presses for security and forms printing and Aquaflex 8 and12-unit narrow web label presses. The company is currently expanding and modernizing its plant Bangalore and building a brand new 100,000 square foot plant in Faridabad. Arvind Shekhar will be attending Interpack with software product manager Sweta Raghavan.