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Since last one year, Kolkata-based Nextgen Printers has been making significant investments in capacity building and modernization of its Howrah plant. Nextgen Printers, which started its first plant in Sikkim in 2010, installed a 7-color KBA Rapida full UV plus coater press at its Howrah plant in October 2015. This was followed by further investments in making the plant a highly comprehensive packaging solution provider in Eastern India. The company also bought a Bobst Novacut 106 ER; a Bobst Expertfold 110 folder-gluer, which can handle both duplex and 3-ply carton for making straight line, crash lock bottom, 4- and 6-corner boxes; and a Bobst Foil Stamper Visionfoil 104 during the same span of time last year. Another Bobst diecutter is scheduled to be installed in December 2016. The company also invested in a rotary window patching and lining machine from Heiber Schroder, which was installed in March this year. “These machinery are the first-of-their-kind in Eastern and North-Eastern India,” says Mahesh Khandelwal, director at Nextgen Printers. “My aim is to provide high-quality packaging solutions to our customers so they don’t have to go places to get their work done.”

The BOBST stand at K 2016 (#A39, Hall 4) will be dedicated to providing inspiration to plastic film converters on how to achieve excellence in process performance and substrate functionality. The benefits of doing so include better product quality, new substrate functions to offer clients, and improvements in the economics of plastic substrate production. BOBST Solution Masters will be live on the stand to advise visitors about their options. The show will also see details presented of the new K5 Expert metalizer.

Bobst Manchester has planned an Open House at their Competence Centre in Heywood, England on 18 October 2016. The event will see the unveiling of the Bobst K5 Expert vacuum metallizer. The K5 Expert is the next generation of the popular K5000 platform and can run at speeds up to 1,200 m per minute.

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.

With an annual average growth rate of over 30%, Vasai-based Duralabel Graphics has had a great run in the past few years. The 8-color Mark Andy 2200 press that the company was employing since 2011 was not sufficient to meet the increasing workload. It was time to enhance the print capacity. In early 2016, Ravi Patnaik, owner of Duralabel decided to invest in a Bobst M4 8-color flexo press. The press was supplied by Reifenhauser India and was installed in April.

Bobst will present an advanced range of technology and process solutions in printing and converting for the global label industry at Labelexpo Americas in Rosemont, ILL, USA, from 13 to 15 September 2016. Star of the show on Bobst’s stand will be the digital flexo process which will be demonstrated on the Bobst M6 mid-web inline UV flexo press. The advantages of digital flexo, which is part of Bobst Digital Automation programme, are unique in making the press operation fast, flexible and reliable, allied with a consistently superior quality of the output and the lowest total cost of ownership.