Four machines shown at Ambernath – Plutus-9one to be shown at K
One of India’s leading flexible packaging machine manufacturers, Kohli Industries held its first in-person open house after a gap of two years. Initially supposed to be a five-day event, from 20 to 24 July, the open house in Ambernath near Mumbai was further extended by two days to accommodate customer requests.
At the open house, Mumbai-based Kohli Industries showcased four machines: Thea-9one8, a-state-of-the-art gravure press; Gaia-405, a solvent less laminator; Zeus-630 slitter rewinder and Eos-630 reversible inspection winder.
The 10-color Thea-9one8 gravure press ran at 400 meters a minute; its solvent less laminator at 400 meters a minute; the slitter rewinder at 600 meters a minute; and, its inspection winder at 600 meters a minute.
During the seven days of the open house over 150 visitors from eight countries witnessed Thea-9one8 for the very first time in person – after having seen it during several virtual online open house events held by Kohli in 2020 and 2021.
In addition, 45 students and five professors from two printing technology institutes received a personal walk-through of all four machines followed by a question and answer session on the printing industry with Kaku Kohli, the knowledgeable CEO of Kohli Industries. “This was the culmination of Kohli’s most successful open house since its inception 50 years ago,” Kohli said.
Kohli said that the focus now shifts to the forthcoming K show in Dusseldorf, Germany which will be held from 19-26 October. At K, Kohli Industries will showcase the Plutus-9one8, its new multi-process and multi-technology coating and lamination machine.
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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