When we first visited Kumar Labels in its rented premises in Greater Noida several years ago, it was reasonably new in the label converting industry. Even then, focussed on the alcobev segment, the company managed to be in the news partly because its owner, Anuj Bhargava, is an engineer who likes to tinker with machines to fine-tune them and to build them as well. One of Bhargava’s first innovations was a short-run converting machine that he showed at one of the Printpack exhibitions in Greater Noida. This machine has been selling over the years without an extensive marketing program or push – merely because it serves as a simple solution to the need for a short-run, easy to set up label converting. Kumar Labels has now moved to its own site, which is further away but still in Greater Noida. Over the years, it kept evolving – first to a Multitec narrow web flexo press and then to a new Heidelberg Gallus EM280 label press with rotary screen to which an automatic infeed splicer was…

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Naresh Khanna
Editor of Indian Printer and Publisher since 1979 and Packaging South Asia since 2007. Trained as an offset printer and IBM 360 computer programmer. Active in the movement to implement Indian scripts for computer-aided typesetting. Worked as a consultant and trainer to the Indian print and newspaper industry. Visiting faculty of IDC at IIT Powai in the 1990s. Also founder of IPP Services, Training and Research and has worked as its principal industry researcher since 1999. Author of book: Miracle of Indian Democracy. Elected vice-president of the International Packaging Press Organization in May 2023. One of the judges for Packaging Sustainability Awards 2024 and 2025.