S. Dayaker Reddy, president, IPAMA has been unanimously elected as president of Asia Print Association in a meeting held on 1 November 2017 at Jakarta, Indonesia. This is another milestone in the history of IPAMA at an international level.
Reddy has been joint secretary (south) of IPAMA from 2012 till his elevation as president of IPAMA in August 2017. During his tenure in IPAMA in different capacities, he made outstanding contribution for the promotion of the Indian Graphic Arts industry. He is a member of the Governing Council of All India Federation of Master Printers (AIFMP), co-coordinator in Telangana Offset Printers Association, mentor for Bharatiya Yuva Shakti Trust, Hyderabad, expert committee member for Community Colleges (Government of Telangana), and syllabus committee member for Government Institute of Printing Technology (GIPT). He is also associated with a number of other institutions in different capacities.
A qualified engineer, Reddy is a highly experienced printing, manufacturing and marketing professional. He is the managing partner of Sai Enterprises, managing director of Omsri Salvani Secure Print, chief executive officer of Gutenberg Machinery Manufacturers, and managing director of Sri Dasa Printpack.
The Covid-19 pandemic led to the country-wide lockdown on 25 March 2020. It will be two years tomorrow as I write this. What have we learned in this time? Maybe the meaning of resilience since small companies like us have had to rely on our resources and the forbearance of our employees as we have struggled to produce our trade platforms.
The print and packaging industries have been fortunate, although the commercial printing industry is still to recover. We have learned more about the digital transformation that affects commercial printing and packaging. Ultimately digital will help print grow in a country where we are still far behind in our paper and print consumption and where digital is a leapfrog technology that will only increase the demand for print in the foreseeable future.
Web analytics show that we now have readership in North America and Europe amongst the 90 countries where our five platforms reach. Our traffic which more than doubled in 2020, has at times gone up by another 50% in 2021. And advertising which had fallen to pieces in 2020 and 2021, has started its return since January 2022.
As the economy approaches real growth with unevenness and shortages a given, we are looking forward to the PrintPack India exhibition in Greater Noida. We are again appointed to produce the Show Daily on all five days of the show from 26 to 30 May 2022.
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