Kongsberg will deliver demos on Kongsberg X Series at PrintPack India 2022 in Greater Noida
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Kongsberg Precision Cutting Systems (Kongsberg PCS) will showcase the power, performance and versatility of its digital finishing solutions when it displays its X22 cutting table and range of innovative tools at this month’s Printpack India.
Across the five days of the event, to be held at the India Expo Center & Mart in Greater Noida, from 26 to 30 May, the company will be delivering continuous demos of one of the most versatile digital finishing devices on the market, the modular Kongsberg X22.
Rafiq Shaikh, Kongsberg PCS sales leader, said, “With a complete range of tools on-hand, the Kongsberg PCS team will demonstrate to visitors how our digital solutions can tackle any job. They bring designs to life and improve productivity, efficiency and customer satisfaction for the corrugated, board and folding carton converters.”
“We’re incredibly excited to have a presence at PrintPack, one of the first events we’ve been able to attend in India since we launched as a standalone business just over a year ago,” said Rafiq. “Throughout the event, we’ll be demonstrating to our visitors how Kongsberg digital finishing solutions enable businesses to streamline workflows and automate production to boost efficiency, while the combination of power, precision and innovative tools empowers designers and operators with the creative freedom to generate the ideas that will drive the future of their business.”
Kongsberg X22 offers speed, power and flexibility
Rafiq said the Kongsberg X22 will be at the center of the Kongsberg PCS display, at Stand 22D in Hall 9D. “In today’s volatile market, where customer demands and technology capabilities change rapidly, it is important to invest in equipment that offers the flexibility to grow in line with business needs,” he said. “The X22 delivers this, not just through its wide range of applications but also because it is a cutting table that can evolve.”
“Packed with a wide range of specialty tools, the X22 offers speed, power and flexibility to handle various materials and can easily be upgraded as a business grows,” said Rafiq. “The team will also demonstrate a range of versatile and powerful tool heads, including the PowerHead tool, which excels on heavy-duty material such as honeycomb boards, triple wall and recycled board.”
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.
