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Mumbai-based cartons solutions provider Okay Papers Products has been meeting the demands of a  variety of industries—healthcare, pharmaceuticals, agro-chemicals and FMCG. It operates from its Vasai plant, which has state-of-the-art infrastructure. To complement its press department, which is equipped with offset presses from Heidelberg, it has been investing in Bobst technologies in the recent past. In 2013, the company bought Ambition 76 A1 folder-gluer and last year it invested in Novacut 106 diecutter. In the postpress department, apart from the Novacut, it has also two retrofitted Heidelberg cylinder diecutters and two Platen die punching machines.

NPES, The Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing and Converting Technologies, with the support of Krista Media, will host the NPES PrintPack Outlook Conference 2016 on 6 October in conjunction with the AllPack and All Print Indonesia exhibitions at JIExpo, in Jakarta, Indonesia. An organized trade mission for NPES members in conjunction with the conference will provide additional business export opportunities through introductions to customers at networking events, during plant visits, via company trade show presence, and provide a deeper understanding of this key market’s significant potential.

The drupa 2016 exhibition was a success for Bobst, launching six new products. Bobst Group recorded a good first half-year 2016. Sales amounted to CHF 600.4 million for the first six months of 2016, compared to CHF 524.7 million in the previous year. The operating result (EBIT) increased by CHF 3.3 million to CHF 18.0 million. The net result reached CHF 9.7 million from CHF 14.8 million in the previous year, when the Group had a one-time CHF 8.1 million positive tax effect which did not occur in 2016. Bookings are stable and the backlog is slightly higher than in the previous year.

Some people say that drupa 2016 would mark the end of the big numbers, but deducing trends from statistics can be treacherous. For the past five drupas, the total number of exhibitors has remained relatively stable, oscillating between, grosso modo, 1,850 and 1,950, albeit on less and less exhibition space, wheres visitor delegations have been shrinking continuously during this period. With a total of 1,837 exhibitors and 260,000 visitors, drupa 2016 has been attended by 54,000 less visitors than drupa 2012, but in 2012 the decline was more than 75,000 as compared to 2008, after a period of relative stability and drupa 2000’s peak performance. Most of the decline is attributed to participants from Germany and its direct neighbours, as a result of industry consolidation, but also showing that companies are becoming more selective and are sending less staff to visit the show. A trend which, if we are to believe the drupa organizers, is keeping up or even increasing the percentage of decision-makers and thus overall participation quality.

“Value-addition, innovation and quality are the three pillars on which our company stands. We always try to add a little bit of innovation to our products. Recently we have developed products with natural feel effect, special textured effect, fresnel lens, holographic effects and others which we are showcasing at our stand. We can see a great amount of interest and appreciation for these products among the visitors to our stand at PackPlus,” says Kuldip Goel, managing director of Any Graphics. At PackPlus 2016, Any Graphics was displaying its range of products with innovative features and effects.

Valco Melton’s focus is still very much on packaging at the moment says Ravi Kiran, director of Valco Melton India. In PackPlus 2016, Valco Melton, one of the world’s leading suppliers of adhesive dispensing equipment and quality inspection systems is offering its technical expertise, along with its solutions.

Actually there is no centre-stage at drupa for packaging. The 17 halls are spread out and although the organizers presented packaging award exhibitions and high level discussions on the concepts and future considerations for the packaging industry, the subject is too large to be contained just in the centre of the stage. Packaging has always been an integral part of drupa – especially since it has been the key platform for multicolor offset presses and monocarton converting. drupa has also had exhibitors such as W&H and Comexi, Uteco and Bobst and many others including the electronic gravure and flexo prepress suppliers for the longest time.

Laurel Brunner writes, “Drupa 2016’s attendance and sales numbers show that print is in rude health.” (Just so this British idiom is not misunderstood – if someone’s in rude health, they are very healthy and look it.) Brunner writes this in the context of sustainability but I am quoting her so that our readers can benefit from the considered opinion of a savvy industry expert.