Capital Graphics is an Indian distributor of highly specialized equipment and consumables that are used by leading digital and flexo printers, diemakers and packaging converters and supplied by its principals such as Cito, Cutlite, Ecosystems, Hunkeler and Tresu. Among its principals are the Switzerland-based Hunkeler which provides the unwinds and rewinds forthe majority of webfed digital presses around the world as well as modules that intelligently process the machine readable marks on digitally printed documents and webs for perforation, folding, authenticating, slitting and sheeting aswell as collating and binding. Hunkeler equipment is already installed on the several webfed digital presses in the country that are being used to print books, transactional and mail order documents. Patrick Lehman based in Hunkeler’s Hong Kong office and who is quite familiar to digital printers across India and Asia was at the Capital Graphics stand at Pamex. Roberto Croci of Cito was at the show as well.
Also present at the show was Liliana Carzaniga of Ecosystem, the Italy-based supplier of a variety of coating and laminating systems for high quality consumer and luxury packaging. Ecosystem sets the high speed benchmarks for the packaging industry with machines that amongst other functions, provides the efficient lamination of metallized polyester on board with the optimum use of consumables and minimum defects and artefacts. ITC’s packaging division near Chennai has already installed an Ecosystem laminator running at 125 metres a minute.
Packaging South Asia is the cooperating media partner for drupa 2016 which is scheduled to be held from 31 May to 10 June at Dusseldorf, Germany
