Sonipat-based pharma packaging company Sain Packaging recently installed its first brand new offset press – Heidelberg Speedmaster CS 92 5+L press with coater. Sachin Gupta, director of Sain Packaging views this investment in a very positive terms. He said that the company invested in the new Heidelberg press to produce better print quality, reduce wastage and meet delivery timelines.
Gupta is quite optimistic that the company’s profitability will improve significantly with this new press. Earlier the company wasted the equivalent of nearly 9 lakh sheets of board each month. “With the new press, I’m confident that it will come down to less than 150,000 sheets every month. In addition, since about 99% of our work is in the pharma segment which fits well in the 25 x 37-inch format, this press is much better suited to our work profile. This will also help us save at least Rs 1.5 lakhs a month on the plate cost,” said Gupta.
Sain Packaging started its operation in 2004 from a small plant in Burari in North Delhi with a single-color press, and within six months, purchased its next press, a used 2-color Heidelberg. Later the company shifted to a new 65,000 square foot plant in Sonipat where it has three 5-color sheetfed offset presses with coater, one 4-color offset press, and four 2-color presses. On the post-press side, Sain Packaging has two Bobst die-cutters, two Maxima die-cutters, three folder-gluers, and nearly seven manual die-cutters.
Before closing the deal with Heidelberg for the new press, Gupta was in talks with other press suppliers as well. “We preferred Heidelberg because we are already a Heidelberg user. Besides, Heidelberg has a solid reputation in the market – customers also get impressed when they come to know that their job will be printed on a Heidelberg press. The new press will increase our customers’ confidence in us even further,” he added.
Equipped with the latest technology from Heidelberg and based on the successful Speedmaster CD 102 platform, the Speedmaster CS 92 offers high productivity for processing a wide range of substrates, with printing speeds of up to 15,000 sheets an hour. Further features are its simple, intuitive operation. The Speedmaster CS 92, a size 37-format press, can handle substrates with thickness ranging from 0.03 mm – 0.6 mm (0.0012 in – 0.024 in). Printing plate costs are almost 20% lower with CS92, a key competitive advantage in a fiercely contested market, said Deepak Walia of Heidelberg.
“Speedmaster CS 92 is equipped with Preset Plus feeder pile height of 1.3 mts with single suction tape and Preset Plus delivery pile height of 1.29 mts with sheet brake system, this enormously reduces the make ready and saves minimum 5 minutes between each job. In addition, Alcolor Vario system helps color consistency throughout run length, contact less transfer of sheet through the press,” said Walia.
Every month, Sain Packaging converts 400 tonnes of board in round the clock operation amounting to nearly Rs 4 crore. The company prints as few as 100 cartons on its offset presses. Sain Packaging supplies its cartons and inserts to pharma companies in Amritsar, Baddi, Paonta and Roorkee. It also has a small corrugation set up for in-house consumption. The company aims to achieve a turnover of Rs 100 crore in FY2020-21.
Speaking about the industry, Gupta said that the pharma industry is witnessing tremendous growth. “While in the past 15 years, most pharma customers asked only for lamination for increased shelf-appeal, they are now asking for haptic such as textured UV effects and Braille,” he said.
