Sona Papers to exhibit recycled paper at Printpack 2019
The Printpack India exhibition is recognized as the country’s leading and one of the largest trade shows in the printing and packaging fraternity. It acts as a platform where the customers, printers, converters and other packaging industry professionals gather to showcase, source and acknowledge the recent developments in the printing and packaging arena. As a leading fine paper merchant of the country, Sona Papers sees a great opportunity through this participation, to be recognized as a trusted and reliable stakeholder in commercial printing and packaging arena.
The company will exhibit its range of specialty grade fine papers, 100% recycled papers and specialty boards at the show. It has been participating in Printpack India exhibition since the last 10 years. “Printpack India does provide us a good platform to interact with potential printers, print specifiers and converters. The company is also expecting higher visibility of its product portfolio among the printing and packaging fraternity,” a spokesperson from the company says. At the event, the company plans to target the printers, print specifiers, converters, packaging industry professionals, digital printers, graphic designers and corporates.
2023 promises an interesting ride for print in India
Indian Printer and Publisher founded in 1979 is the oldest B2B trade publication in the multi-platform and
multi-channel IPPGroup. While the print and packaging industries have been resilient in the past 33 months since the pandemic lockdown of 25 March 2020, the commercial printing and newspaper industries have yet to recover their pre-Covid trajectory.
The fragmented commercial printing industry faces substantial challenges as does the newspaper industry.
While digital short-run printing and the signage industry seem to be recovering a bit faster, ultimately
their growth will also be moderated by the progress of the overall economy. On the other hand book
printing exports are doing well but they too face several supply-chain and logistics challenges.
The price of publication papers including newsprint has been high in the past year while availability is diminished by several mills shutting down their publication paper and newsprint machines in the past four years. Indian paper mills are also exporting many types of paper and have raised prices for Indian printers. To some extent, this has helped in the recovery of the digital printing industry with its on-demand short-run and low-wastage paradigm.
Ultimately digital print and other digital channels 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. For instance, there is no alternative to a rise in textbook consumption but this segment will only reach normality in the next financial year beginning on 1 April 2023.
Thus while the new normal is a moving target and many commercial printers look to diversification, we believe that our target audiences may shift and change. Like them, we will also have to adapt with agility to keep up with their business and technical information needs.
Our 2023 media kit is ready, and it is the right time to take stock and reconnect with your potential markets and customers. Print is the glue for the growth of liberal education, new industry, and an emerging economy. We seek your participation in what promises to be an interesting ride.
