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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.

Established in 1996, Rukson Packaging is a commercial cum packaging converter based in Navi Mumbai. Speaking to Packaging South Asia, Kishin Panjabi, owner of Rukson Packaging said, “We started with a small plant of around 1,000 square feet in Mulund and continued to provide services to the commercial and packaging segment until 2007. With the goal to focus on the MetPet carton segment, we shifted the plant to Navi Mumbai at a bigger space of around 30,000 square feet. The plant is equipped with state-of-the-art technology. In 2014, we had issues with the labour union. It slowed production and created problems for smooth operations. We lost numerous print contracts and our sales targets also suffered. In August 2015 we installed a 6-color Komori press with UV and varnish coater in a bid to add UV printing capabilities to the packaging arsenal.”

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.