Tag: flexo

Rossini, one of the global leaders in rubber rollers, mandrels and sleeve technology for gravure and flexo for narrow and wide web is already an established entity in India. And it is amongst the few international companies which has taken the bold step of setting up a manufacturing plant in India. Rossini India has been doing quite well says Marco Caccia, managing director of Rossini India. Rossini’s Indian factory was inaugurated in September 2014. This is the first Rossini plant in Asia and it was driven by customer demands from this region says Ashvin Hebbar of Rossini India. Good quality rubber rollers in India were quite expensive and there was acute requirement in the market. After the plant was set up, the operations started around April 2015.

At drupa 2016, Italian firm Comiflex SRL and India’s largest global flexible packaging solution company Uflex shook hands to manufacture gear and gearless CI Flexo printing machines under a technology transfer agreement at the latter’s engineering plant in Noida, India. Speaking to Packaging South Asia, Uflex group president (corporate finance and accounts) RK Jain said, “Comiflex is an international company with expertise in manufacturing various kinds of flexo printing machines. With the transfer of the technical know-how from Comiflex, we will be producing gear and gearless CI flexo presses at our Engineering Plant in Noida. The printing machines will be for both Indian and overseas markets.”

Toyo Ink, Toyo Ink Arets and Toyo-Morton will be exhibiting together at drupa 2016 (Hall 4 Stand B39). The three firms will jointly showcase a wide range of printing and packaging solutions designed to help brand owners and package printers reduce wastage throughout the supply chain, lesson environmental risks, enhance food safety and achieve uniform packaging quality worldwide.

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.

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.

India’s leading winning-edge solutions provider for the printing and packaging industry, Monotech Systems, has sold the first Focus Proflex E press to Mumbai-based Glamod Techno Labels. The deal was finalized at the ongoing drupa in Dusseldorf, Germany.

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.