Yogesh Kapur took over as managing director of Sakata Inx India, a leading supplier of cold-set offset inks to the newspaper, commercial, and packaging industry market segments and liquid inks to the flexible packaging industry, in April 2025. The IPP Group recently visited Sakata Inx office in Gurugram to learn about Kapur’s vision for the ink major and Sakata’s plans in the growing Indian market.
According to Kapur, his key focus would be to strengthen the company’s leadership position in the printing and packaging inks segment in India and grow profitably, adding the company had already invested a lot in the Indian market and would want to leverage it.
“We continue to attain our goal of being in the leadership position in India. We are employing multiple strategies to achieve this end – innovation, going into newer territories, focusing on manufacturing customer-oriented products in India, and developing sustainable products,” Kapur, who was with UFlex before joining Sakata, said.
Kapur said the company plans to get into new product areas, and these plans are driven by customer requirements. “We plan to improve our service capabilities, along with being more efficient, to improve our top line and bottom line. We want to deliver the most cost-competitive solutions to our customers,” he said on his 360-degree view of the company’s growth strategies.
“We not only focus on our customers’ current requirements but also anticipate what they would want, and then work backwards to start developing those products, Kapur said. He says Sakata is a ‘glocal’ company – a ‘global’ company with a very ‘local’ outlook, adding that they leverage the benefits they get as a global MNC to develop and manufacture products locally.
Sakata Inx had set up its first manufacturing facility in India more than 25 years ago, Kapur said, adding the company only utilizes its global and local R&D capabilities to develop and manufacture products for India’s unique printing and packaging ink requirements. Sakata Inx India is in tune with the Indian government’s Make in India initiative, he said.
“Going forward, we want to make sure we are the preferred vendor. We want to continue our position of being a quality supplier of inks – a supplier whose products are making our customers win because if they win then we win. We will continue to develop sustainable products. We want to consolidate our leadership position as we go forward every year. We want to grow faster than India’s GDP,” he said.
Kapur said a lot of customers have switched to using Sakata inks because of value benefits they get from the company, such as quality products, quick customer service, reduced wastage and product reliability. “We want to continue being the preferred vendor for our customers,” Kapur concluded.
