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PACPROCESS-DRINKTECH 2019 SHOWDAILY 14 DECEMBER 2019 | SUPPORTED BY PACKAGING SOUTH ASIA & INDIFOODBEV Continued from page 1 – Konica Minolta . . . Continued from page 1 – Chemline . . . Konica Minolta team at its stand at pacprocess 2019 to customers based in Kerala in a single day delivery sched- ule. But this has to happen all across the country. We’re try- ing to encourage our custom- ers from B class cities also to take up this initiative,” adds Kamat. KM also maintains a database of printers from vari- ous areas. The company uses this database to connect vari- ous service providers with new 3 customers. In the photobook industry, there are a couple of major equipment suppliers for print embellishment. More than 80% customers of MGI embel- lishment machines in the mar- ket operate in the photobook industry. Kamat adds that foil- ing gives MGI an edge over its competitors in the market. De- bossed foiling is very rare in the print industry and MGI cus- tomers are the only ones who are able to provide this service. “Our customer in Ludhiana, Dulari Digital who installed an MGI increased its volumes in the last six months. The com- pany is doing almost 80% work in the photo segment and only 20% in the commercial and packaging segments. We as a company believe that photo- book is an Indian application. We are now putting greater effort in promoting MGI in packaging and commercial seg- ments,” Kamat shares. He also believes that the Indian packaging market is maturing every year with an increase in demand for pack- aging that looks appealing on the shelf. Hence, he sees a very promising market for MGI in the coming future in India. Talking about the show, Kamat says, “We got a good re- sponse from the visitors on the first day. We got brand own- ers at our stand with whom we managed to have a healthy interaction. Some packaging companies also came to us. Overall, this exhibition is prov- ing to be a good networking oppotunity for us,” Kamat con- cludes. we’ve received a good response from the crowd. We expect to get more visitors to our stand in the coming days,” says Vivek Gupta, senior manager, Market- ing & Sales, Chemline. The company displayed water-based and hot-melt adhesives for label industry. Water-based adhesives are usu- ally used on glass and hot-melt adhesives are used on PET bot- tles. “The packaging industry is growing. Since it finds applica- tions in various sectors of the economy, it is bound to grow. There is a slowdown currently and we experience slow first and second quarters. We think the market will bounce back pretty soon. The company expected to perform better this year but since there is a slowdown and the demand in the market has decreased, it is facing difficulties. The company manufactures solvent-based and solvent-less adhesives for the flexible pack- aging industry. Gupta said that not many flexible packaging converters showed-up at the event. “We’ve been receiving enquiries for the labels seg- ment but we haven’t been able to witness enough converters from other segments of packag- ing,” Gupta concludes.

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