The virus is still in the air. Yet, the printing industry refuses to wallow in the doom and gloom of the past. Instead, as the New Year dawns, the industry is surging ahead to make up for last year’s losses, and add some neat profit as well. But what about the ground reality? Are we really ready? PrintWeek probes
That Covid-19 had a huge impact on the printing industry is an understatement. What happened in 2020 was simply unprecedented, especially after 24 March, when the country went into a lockdown. It was indeed disconcerting to see an industry, which works 24/7 (in most cases) shut shop for an extended period. This, of course, had a cascading effect on the profit margins. Yet, instead of crying over the spilt milk, the industry picked itself up as soon as the locked opened, and went to business with a renewed vigour. That was last year. With the dawning of a New Year, the industry looks optimistic, not just to make up for the losses it incurred in 2020,
On 20 January 2021, Bobst celebrated its journey to the 1,000th folder-gluer from its plant in Pune. Noel D’Cunha finds out more about this journey Deglurkar (l) and Menon (r): The journey to 1,000 folder-gluer is a handy yardstick to measure Bobst’s success and progress in India
For Bobst, 2020 also happened to be its 25th year of inception in India. Having started with a small sales and service office way back in 1995 in Pune, it later established a small workshop to refurbish Bobst die-cutting machines in 1999 at Pirangut, Pune. With the Indian market taking shape for the better future and a vision to become a leading supplier of equipment and services for the packaging industry locally in India, Bobst inaugurated its manufacturing plant at Pirangut, Pune in 2003.
The virus is still in the air. Yet, the printing industry refuses to wallow in the doom and gloom of the past. Instead, as the New Year dawns, the industry is surging ahead to make up for last year’s losses, and add some neat profit as well. But what about the ground reality? Are we really ready?
PrintWeek probes
That Covid-19 had a huge impact on the printing industry is an understatement. What happened in 2020 was simply unprecedented, especially after 24 March, when the country went into a lockdown. It was indeed disconcerting to see an industry, which works 24/7 (in most cases) shut shop for an extended period. This, of course, had a cascading effect on the profit margins. Yet, instead of crying over the spilt milk, the industry picked itself up as soon as the locked opened, and went to business with a renewed vigour. That was last year. With the dawning of a New Year, the industry looks optimistic, not just to make up for the losses it incurred in 2020,