DGM die-cutter and folder gluer plus Komori for initial phase
Akshay Koradia, a 35-year veteran of the printing and packaging industry, has set up a new carton unit in Umbergaon in Gujarat. The plant, which is about 160 kilometers north of Mumbai, is just across the Maharashtra-Gujarat border. It has been set up together with an investor for producing monocartons and litho-laminated microfluted cartons. Micro Wood will also make paper tubes, canisters, rigid boxes, or luxury packaging, which Koradia already manufactures.
The new plant, which is nearing completion, is installing a used 2000 model Komori Lithrone 8-color plus coater UV press in the initial phase. At the same time, it has ordered converting equipment from DGM, including a DGM Technocut 1050S automatic die-cutter with stripping and a fully loaded DGM.
SmartFold folder gluer capable of running straight line, crash lock bottom, double wall 4- and 6-corner cartons. The folder gluer is also capable of CD and pocket design and solid board cartons from 170 to-800 gsm and 3-ply corrugated cartons with folded thickness up to 15 mm. Micro Wood is also planning to purchase a laminator, which Koradia describes as “a work in progress.”
Koradia’s investor is the well-known Doms stationery brand, and the new carton plant plans to produce domestic and export packaging for stationery products and FMCG packaging. Micro Wood’s 50,000 square foot plant is nearing completion. The building should be ready in the first half of September. Koradia expects to get the plant going, including the installation and commissioning of equipment by Diwali, in early November this year.
The Covid-19 pandemic led to the country-wide lockdown on 25 March 2020. It will be two years tomorrow as I write this. What have we learned in this time? Maybe the meaning of resilience since small companies like us have had to rely on our resources and the forbearance of our employees as we have struggled to produce our trade platforms.
The print and packaging industries have been fortunate, although the commercial printing industry is still to recover. We have learned more about the digital transformation that affects commercial printing and packaging. Ultimately digital 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.
Web analytics show that we now have readership in North America and Europe amongst the 90 countries where our five platforms reach. Our traffic which more than doubled in 2020, has at times gone up by another 50% in 2021. And advertising which had fallen to pieces in 2020 and 2021, has started its return since January 2022.
As the economy approaches real growth with unevenness and shortages a given, we are looking forward to the PrintPack India exhibition in Greater Noida. We are again appointed to produce the Show Daily on all five days of the show from 26 to 30 May 2022.
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