Die cutter sold to Concord Printing
Zhongke India, a provider of a wide range of packaging solutions, put up a strong show at the recently concluded IndiaCorr Expo 2022 held in Mumbai’s Bombay Exhibition Centre from 8-10 October. Zhongke India’s stall was one of the biggest at the expo, and a number of machines were running live.
The company demonstrated a die cutter, a litho lamination machine, a window-patching machine, and a box-erecting machine at its booth. “Automation is the focus area for us at the IndiaCorr Expo 2022, and we showed a variety of post-print solutions for the corrugated industry,” said Rohit Rajpal, director of Zhongke India.
The Wenhong WH 1050SS die cutter that was on display at the expo has been sold to the Vadodara-based Concord Printing. “We have had a good relationship with Concord and have supplied a number of machines to them. The WH 1050SS die cutter is one of them,” said Rajpal.
With a working pressure of 400T, the WH 1050SS has a design speed of up to 8000 sheets/hour and an accuracy of 0.15 mm. Equipped with both a top feeder and a lead edge feeder, the machine can efficiently run 4 mm corrugated jobs.
The Wenhong WHL 1512 litho laminator that was also on display is specially configured for high-quality and high-precision colored litho cartons. Sheet-to-sheet pasting, as well as 5-ply corrugated sheets, can be processed on the machine. With a design speed of 160 meters/min, the machine gives high laminating accuracy within 1 mm. The machine automatically stops within 10 seconds in case of no glue and thus helps in minimizing production loss.
IndiaCorr Expo 2022 was the first offline event dedicated to the corrugated industry since the outbreak of the Covid pandemic. Rajpal says the expo was very good for the company.
“The IndiaCorr Expo took place after a long break and, therefore, the excitement among the corrugation industry was palpable. We got a very good response and generated a number of strong leads. The Indian corrugated industry is growing, and customers are opting for better and faster machines and focusing on automation,” Rajpal concludes.
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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