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Hyderabad-based Techno Graphic Services (TGS) is a leading distributor of finishing equipment in the country. It distributes several types of equipment manufactured in Taiwan such as Wen Chyuan lamination and UV coating machines. Recently, the distributor has grown its portfolio by signing up with four other Taiwanese postpress equipment manufacturers – SBL Group, Golden Tec Machinery, Datien Industrial Company and Fulontek Enterprises.

The Indian printers are ebullient right now although they do keep crying about poor printing rates and thinner margins. Rightly or wrongly they are first of all (like many business constituencies) adamant in their support of the prime minister notwithstanding the lack of reforms so far. And they remain optimistic that acche din (good times) for the economy will come in spite of steep fall in exports over the past two years and the continued revelations of non-performing assets by the banks.

Last year’s decision to change the drupa cycle from four to three years may be considered a sign of optimism, but it may just as well be one of necessity. Both four- and three-year cycles have drupa and interpack coincide at some point, so whether this requires shuffling with dates or not, purely depends on cost-benefit assessments undertaken by Messe Düsseldorf and its exhibiting partners.

At the pre-drupa media conference, EFI CEO Guy Gecht announced an acquisition of UK-based Rialco LLC, which is one of Europe’s leading suppliers of dye powders and color products for the digital printing and industrial manufacturing industries. Rialco will operate as part of EFI’s industrial inkjet business under the management of Stephen Emery, vice president of the Ink Business and Jetrion at EFI. EFI aims to reach a billion US$ in revenue this year, Gecht announced.

Polar and its sales partner Heidelberger Druckmaschinen will showcase the cutting machine Polar D 115 and Polar Digicut PRO at Hall 1 Stand C03 at drupa 2016. The company will present a wide array of solutions for commercial printers, finishing businesses and digital printers, from solo cutting machines and CuttingSystem 200 through to the automated CuttingSystem PACE. Label printers who attach great importance to first-class cutting precision hand-in-hand with maximum productivity will be especially interested in LabelSystem DC-11 plus. An enhanced version of the well-established P-Net Compucut for generating cutting programmes off the machine will be presented.

At drupa 2016, Hyderabad-based Techno Graphic Services India will mark its presence with a complete overhaul of its brand image from being a used equipment supplier to brand new equipment supplier. The company in fact has already signed deals with five Taiwanese postpress equipment manufacturers – Wen Chyuan, SBL Group, Golden Tec Machinery, Datien Industrial Company and Fulontek Enterprises Company – to represent them in India.

Steinemann is expanding its portfolio of UV varnishing machines in time for drupa 2016. The company’s products now also include machines designed to cover a wide range of different demands on full-flood UV varnishing and spot varnishing in both commercial and packaging printing. The company introduced the dmax 106 digital UV varnishing machine in 2014. The dmax 106 is designed for B1 formats and offers divar inkjet technology.

Gallus is organizing a customer-partner event on 5 March 2016 at The Hotel Westin Garden City, Mumbai. Gallus India has sold its 100th press in the Indian market since the company started its business in India in 2001 – 15 years ago. “This is a very significant moment for us at Gallus and we are quite excited about this important milestone,” says Samir Patkar, managing director of Gallus India.

Heidelberg 19 December 2016. For many years, the drupa stage was dominated by Heidelberg. Then the world changed and the company lost its place at the centre of the print universe. It has been shaken and stirred over the past three years by CEO Gerold Linzbach, who was brought in to essentially restructure and bring the company back to health. Linzbach’s ideas which he says are based on close listening to Heidelberg employees and customers, seem to be working – although in fairness, some of the stern measures to slim down the company were initiated even before he took over. Now on the eve of drupa 2016 in May, Heidelberg has conjured up a rocking strategy and is ready to once again leverage the industry’s main event for its journey of regeneration and transformation.

We recently received a 43-page document outlining environmental legislation that applies to printing companies. It was for one single country with around 7,000 printing companies. Reading through this lengthy document it becomes clear that legislators are working hard to protect us all from pollution and related nastiness. The law is working hard to keep the world a safe and pleasant place, a place with a future. But the law also seems to be working hard to slow business down and make it less productive, by clogging up the wheels of commerce with red tape. It distracts us from paying attention to our customers and from the daily grind of generating revenue, of producing goods and providing services.