Samay Print Solutions, which is based in the Rabale area of Navi Mumbai, manufactures rigid boxes for packaging applications in the cosmetics, jewelry, and garments industry. It runs an offset printing line by Komori. It has various processing equipment such as cutting machine, gumming machine, lamination machine, foiling machine, offline UV machine, offline drip machine, die cutting machine.
Edifice Technologies supplied canon imagePress C910
It has recently commissioned a brand-new Canon imagePress C910 digital production press for short-run jobs and sample making. Edifice Technologies has supplied the press, which is the distributor for Canon production printers for the Mumbai region.
“We have bought the Canon imagePress C910 press primarily for jobs with small quantities and to print samples. The press was commissioned around the end of February,” says Ram Dubariya, proprietor of Samay Print Solutions.
The imagePress C910 has a speed of 90 pages per minute and handles media up to 350 gsm. The press has a 2400 dpi resolution. It offers a digital front choice Canon’s Prismasync Print Server Version 7 and the EFI Fiery-powered imagePRESS servers.
Samay Print Solutions was involved in the commercial printing business from 2013-2015 but ventured into packaging in 2016. The company was operating from Shah and Nahar Industrial Estate in Mumbai’s Lower Parel area. It shifted from Lower Parel to Navi Mumbai in June of last year. The Navi Mumbai plant is spread over 20,000 square feet and consolidates all operations under one roof. At Lower Parel, Samay Print Solutions was operating from various units. The company manufactures about 10-12,000 boxes per day.
More expansion planned
According to Dubariya, the company plans to set up another plant in Rasayani, which is about an hour’s drive from Rabale. Once the new unit is ready, the Rabale plant will have the printing and processing departments, while the Rasayani plant will have the final box-making department.
“We expect to start the new plant in another six to eight months. The reason we are expanding is that we are having space constraints as we cannot add more machinery at Rabale,” Dubariya says.
Samay Print Solutions is bringing in a full-fledged box-making system from Germany’s Kolbus. “The commission of the Kolbus system has been delayed due to the pandemic. If things had been normal, the system would have already been here, and commissioning would happen on April 1. Now we expect that to happen in another six months. The state of the art system will help us enhance productivity,” Dubariya says.
2021-2022 to see a sharp recovery
Like many other companies, Samay Print Solutions was severely impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic and remained shut from April to September. However, the company recovered sharply in the second half of the 2020-2021 financial year. Dubariya says the bounce-back that has taken place in the last six months will continue in the next financial year as well.
“If 2020-2021 would have been a normal year, we would have doubled our revenue from INR 15 crore in 2019-2020. However, we are still okay as our 2020-2021 revenue has reached the previous year’s level. We see the recovery to continue in 2021-2022 and hope to now double our revenue,” he concludes.
