‘Matho’ — Waste management system at Renault Paper

Recognizing the need to manage self-adhesive label waste more effectively

301
Matho
Waste management system from 'Matho' Germany installed at Renault.

Recognizing the imperative need to manage self-adhesive label waste more effectively, Palghar based Renault Paper Products, led by Mahendra Shah, has installed a waste management system supplied by Matho Konstruktion and Maschinenbau GmbH, Germany. Renault, established in 1999 and operating out of 22000 square feet shopfloor with nine label presses, have steadily expanded by adding label embellishing capabilities to become a specialized supplier to the liquor industry besides having a host of customers from the leading FMCG brand owners. They have a range of high-end flexo and hybrid presses. They are the first to have a combination label press that can produce labels with diverse technologies like offset, flexo, screen printing in a single pass along with capabilities to foil and emboss. On installation of Matho, Mahendra comments, “In today’s time, a clean shop floor makes the workplace more productive, and space-saving does provide additional area for expansion”.

Leading label producing companies understand and try to implement a cleaner and green workplace. Environmentally and socially responsible manufacturers of self-adhesive label material or converters of labels do not wish to dump their production waste as garbage in open or covered spaces. Label waste matrix stripped off after die-cutting has tacky adhesive and is voluminous. It attracts dust and bacteria, so it is a health hazard and also occupies expensive space that can be used for productive purposes. German manufacturers Matho offers waste management systems to extract the trims and matrix by suction from the slitting machine or die-cutting station to transport the leading equipment to shred the self-adhesive waste without letting it stick to the sides and clogging the pipes and further blow it on to either collection bags in highly reduced space or compact it for easy disposal.Matho

Matho Konstruktion and Maschinenbau GmbH is a leading manufacturer of granulators and waste extraction systems for packaging, converting, and labels. Headquartered in Ellwangen, Germany, and with more than 25 years of experience, the company focuses on the entire waste handling process. Their focus includes project planning, manufacturing, installation and commissioning of waste extraction systems.

Matho’s exclusive agents have handled the sale of these Matho systems in India Weldon Celloplast, New Delhi, established in 1982, who are providers of total label manufacturing solutions with exclusive representation of leading international equipment brands as principals. Commenting on this sale, Kanwardeep Sahni, managing director of Weldon says, “Renault has been a very loyal customer yet demanding the best. They are opting for Matho. Mahendrabhai is a simple person committed to creativity and innovation. Shows his penchant for creating the right environment at the workplace”.

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.

– Naresh Khanna

Subscribe Now

LEAVE A REPLY

Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here