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Just as everyone thought the worst was behind us, a crippling second wave of Covid-19 has struck India.
In Indore most of the press owners and employees have contracted Covid-19. This has made things worse, says Swadesh Sharma of Atharva Packaging in Indore.
The vaccine drive maybe a light at the end of the tunnel, but in this Sunday Column, Sharma says, 2021 could be worse than 2020
One more blow to print
PrintWeek (PW): How have the past 12 months been in Indore?
Swadesh Sharma (SS): Not different from the rest of India. Post the lockdown last year, except for the packaging units, all commercial and publishing units were shut for two to three months. Even after re-opening, most firms have been operating at one-third capacity as compared to before.
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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.