A variety of converting machines from a single supplier

On 26 May 2022, the first day of Printpack India, Sodhisons opened its account with the sale of an autoplaten die-cutting machine with a heated platen to cut plastic, to Dimple Packaging in Ludhiana. Dimple’s Pankaj Kalra said, “We already have an autoplaten die-cutter with hot foil stamping from Sodhisons and are investing in the second machine owing to their service and the technical strength of the machine capable of 600 tons of pressure for deep embossing. We have made the right choice.” 

Sharda Graphics signed a deal on the first day for an autoplaten die-cutting machine with a heated platen and a Heidelberg Cylinder with hot foil stamping and a 3-flute laminator to enhance its productivity. It is a user of five platen die-cutters with hot foil stamping machines from Soshisons for the past 16 years.

On the second day of the show, Sodhisons inked deals for fully automatic rigid box-making machines with two customers. It also sold a couple of 3-ply flute laminators with a speed of 8,000 sheets an hour, to Chandni, and SB Printo Pack respectively.

The KDX high configuration dry lamination machine under Shenso (a joint venture of DAYA and Sodhisons) was sold to Khosla Printers in Sahibabad. This machine is equipped with 5 servos, a high-pile feeder and stacker, and an auto tension controller for film unwinding. Khosla said, “After studying all the options available in the market, we decided to invest in the 6th Generation Intelligent KDX lamination machine with hot-knife which is ready for the future and meets our ever-increasing production demands.”

On the third day of the Printpack India show, 28 May 2022, Sodhisons signed a deal with Nageen Print Pack in Meerut for its high-speed auto flute laminator which runs at 12,000 sheets an hour. Mohit Jain of Nageen commented – “We are investing in a high-speed flute laminator to match and balance our other production capacities.” 

Another deal was signed for a 5-ply automatic flute laminator with Hari har press on the same day. A special manual heavy-duty die-cutting machine with an air clutch was sold to Frank Education. A die-cutter with a hot foil stamper was also sold to Archies. Regarding its success of the first three days of the show, Sodhisons Mechanical Works CEO Rakesh Sodhi said, “We are providing all the solutions to our customers under one roof. We are looking forward to cracking at least ten more deals by end of the show.”

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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