From left to right, Mr. Pandee Ishwaram, Mr. Sushant Chonkar and Mr. Jagannath Wagle (Photo: Vinsak)
Vinsak, the distributor of Lombardi presses, has announced the installation of a new Lombardi Synchroline 530 press at Sigma Middle East Labels Industries in the UAE.
The Lombardi Synchroline 530 mm wide 8 color Flexo press has options of a web cleaner, double-sided corona treatment, a turn bar, a cold foil, UV dryer, and a hot air tunnel for meeting the diversified needs of the client in narrow web shrink sleeve, and IML production.
Lombardi is known for the production and distribution of narrow web, and wide web flexographic in-line presses. With this new installation, the UAE alone has 10 machines installed in the last four years.
The press has the capacity to print on a wide variety of substrates ranging from 12-micron film to 450 GSM boards. Its maximum repeat of 1000mm is the largest in the industry, giving Sigma a unique advantage to access niche markets.
“In Vinsak, we found a reliable partner who has supported us in deciding the specifications of the equipment to suit our current and future needs as well to supply the correct tooling, ancillaries as well as complete installation and training support of this project and enabled us to start production in the shortest possible time.” said Jagannath M Wagle, managing director of Sigma.
Sigma is a manufacturer of self-adhesive labels in the industry since 2010 Starting with four-color printing, Sigma is into multicolor label printing on narrow web flexo presses.
Vinsak is a supplier of printing and packaging solutions in India, Africa, and the Middle East.
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.
