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With its manufacturing base in Dadra and Nagar Haveli, about 200 km from Mumbai, Saptagiri Packaging is aggressively chasing growth and has invested in state-of-the-art equipment for its printing as

Heidelberg will aim for €3 billion (INR 21,600 crore) in sales by 2022, an increase of €500 million (INR 3,600 crore) over its current sales figures.

While 7, 8 and even 10-color gravure and flexo presses have been used in India for flexible packaging and labels, more than 6-color plus coater presses have only just started being used for carton printing. Until a couple of years ago, a 6-color plus coater was the standard monocarton press. The higher configuration presses including interdeck and end-of-press UV were imported for printing on metalized polyester laminated to paperboard and also sometimes for printing on transparent or translucent plastic substrates.

The packaging service provider colordruck Baiersbronn, which operates throughout Europe, has been confirmed as pilot user of the Primefire 106, the first industrial digital printing system in B1 format from Heidelberg. After intensive tests of a wide variety of technological and business concepts, Primefire 106 is set to expand the new Packaging Digital division at colordruck Baiersbronn and will therefore be able to offer its customers from all over Europe unlimited opportunities for mass customization by personalization and individualization of packaging.

In the face of progressive globalization, brands with an international sales and production infrastructure also have a growing need for additional packaging variants, a more individual sales approach, and a shorter time-to-market. This increases complexity and the risk of defects in packaging production. On the other hand, the digitization of all key process steps in production offers a way of greatly reducing this risk of defects, or even eliminating it altogether. Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) and its Swiss subsidiary Gallus will therefore be presenting a range of solutions and measures aimed at automating quality assurance and control, all integrated in the entire workflow and the participating machines in an intelligently networked production environment, under the motto Smart Print Shop – Zero Defect Packaging at the upcoming interpack, scheduled from 4 to 10 May in Düsseldorf. These solutions and measures are designed to boost the international competitiveness of packaging producers by enabling reliable, productive and economical production, especially of defect-free, high-quality folding cartons and labels in offset, digital and flexo printing.

At the Falcon Vacuum Pumps stand at PrintPack 2017, Amarpreet Singh, director of the company, was busy speaking to interested customers of dry vacuum pumps and dry vacuum pressure pumps, of which his company is a leading manufacturer in India. At the stand, Singh explained that his company essentially supplies to what he calls the ‘replacement market,’ which means replacements for vacuum pumps of printing presses. He shared that the pump that Falcon manufactures for Heidelberg CD 102 is manufactured only by four companies in India today.

The supervisory board of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) is reorganizing the company’s management board with the appointment of Rainer Hundsdörfer as the new CEO and Ulrich Hermann as a regular member. International industry expert Hundsdörfer will replace Gerold Linzbach on 14 November, who is leaving the company on his own accord, as already announced.

Heidelberg wants to use drupa 2016 to project itself as the driving force behind the industry’s digitization of the entire supply and print production chain. This entails using its Prinect software, eCommerce and the cloud for everything from creating the fully integrated and automation friendly pressroom; to maintenance and performance monitoring including performance and productivity enhancing consulting; to pressroom consumables.