BOBST EXPERTFOLD can produce cartons at speed of 450m/min, and is equipped to run specialty 4 and 6-corner boxes and microflute corrugated cartons. Dev Print & Pack (DPPL) has invested in a new BOBST EXPERTFOLD 110 A2.
This is part of an investment drive that has seen the Indian packaging specialist grow rapidly over the last three years. ‘20% of our print jobs do not require finishing, but the rest does. Anybody can do the 20% print jobs, but we have a reputation for the quality of our carton finishes, which is a good 80%. This investment, which also has the ability to produce 4 and 6-corner cartons, both for mono cartons as well as corrugation cartons, will enable us to build on the strength with increased capacity, quality and speed,’ said Samir Patel, the director of DPPL. ‘The new BOBST equipment will also be faster for make readies and will enable us to optimise settings for repeat print runs.’
Patel started the Ahmedabad City-based packaging business in 2016, 12 years after he set up Dev Offset, which specialised in printing commercial and wedding cards. Since the business was founded in 2016, the primary packaging plant has been based in a site which houses a BOBST NOVACUT 106E die cutter and a BOBST VISIONFOLD 110A-2 folder gluer, offering HHS cold glue and hotmelt gluing.
According to Patel, the company began with a conversion of around 60-70 tons per month in January 2017. In eight months, that number went up to around 140-150 tonnes. ‘We have been growing at a good clip and are today converting around 450 tons of paper, paperboard, and kraft paper.’
The second plant is where the new BOBST machinery is housed. DPPL specialises in mono carton packaging for the pharma and FMCG segments, as well as e and g-flute corrugation packaging. The second plant is used to produce corrugation packaging.
A Smithers Pira report, The Future of Digital Print for Packaging to 2019, said that conversion of corrugated board was 90 million tonnes in 2013 and would increase by over 22 million tonnes by 2019. The majority of prints will remain analogue flexo and offset after Patel invested in offset technology. ‘The last 24 months have been a productive period for DPPL. We have seen significant growth of 30% in the packaging business. That said, our commercial side of the business, particularly the wedding card job segment, took a hit. However, that loss has been offset by the growth in the packaging business. In April 2020, we invested in a BOBST SP 102 kit. It was perhaps the right decision, considering the growth we have seen recently,’ said Patel.
BOBST EXPERTFOLD is a future-ready machine, capable of retrofitting ACCUCHECK and ACCUBRAILLE systems. The ACCUCHECK is a print inspection system fitted inline in the BOBST EXPERTFOLD folder-gluer. It can inspect and eject various print defects such as colour variations, print to cut registration, missing text, scratches and damages to boxes. The ACCUBRAILLE is a rotary embossing braille system, which can produce up to 85,000 B/hr and a job changeover in 5-7 mins.
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