BOBST gravure printing presses meet growing demand in India

Last year, the Indian industry invested in eight printing lines from BOBST’s range of gravure solutions, including 4003, 5002 and 888 models.  These machines join a total of 70 existing BOBST gravure printing presses for flexible materials already installed in India, these being made up of well over 500 individual print units.

BOBST gravure printing technology is attractive to Indian customers because each solution in the comprehensive range delivers what customers wants in terms of the applications to be run on the line, their flexibility, sustainability, print quality, and operational efficiency - that is to say an ideal product/customer fit.

“Given the fact that rotogravure is the predominant printing process for flexible packaging, and is such a buoyant segment of the industry, it has been a matter of pride for some years now that BOBST has maintained a market share of 70% of all imported Electronic Shaft gravure presses sold and installed in India,” says Nilesh Pinto, Senior Sales Manager, Bobst India. “And even more so, when you consider that our market share is as high as 50% of the aggregate sales of both foreign and Indian Electronic Shaft gravure presses.”

Founded in 1890 by Joseph Bobst in Lausanne, Switzerland, BOBST has a presence in more than 50 countries, runs 11 production facilities in 8 countries and employs over 4.800 people around the world. The firm recorded a consolidated turnover of CHF 1.33 billion for the year ended December 31st, 2015.