Vardhman Books International, a Meerut-based publisher and commercial printer, enters the Packing Industry with mono carton production. The assets held by the company for its commercial printing notebook production, including its Komori press for conventional printing, have now been diversified for carton printing. In addition, a year ago, the firm has also installed a Heidelberg CD102 5-colour plus coater press with UV curing for carton printing.
The key additions for the carton production are the converting machines and an auto platen DGM techno cut 1050 die-cutter for converting 80 to 2000 gsm board. This die-cutter can convert 3-ply corrugated sheets up to 5mm in thickness. Whereas the DGM technofold 1100PC folder gluer, can produce a straight line, crash lock bottom, and double-wall design cartons solid board from 170 gsm-800 gsm three-ply corrugated cartons up to 20 mm folded thickness. It can also produce CD/pocket folders. To complete the carton converting section and supply a variety of cartons similar to Nataraj, the Vardhman packaging plant has got quickly prepared to manufacture both mono-cartons and corrugated 3 and 5-ply cartons.
Vardhman’s DGM technofold 1100PC folder gluer.
Vardhaman Books International is also planning to grow this segment with more investments in infrastructure. Company director Anuj Jain says, “We have made a new plant with a covered area of 2 lakh square feet entirely for our new packaging division.” Besides the current printing plant, the new plant is expected to produce with full total capacity in the next couple of years.
Jain also detailed, “For the past 45 years, we have been manufacturing a wide range of lightweight, attractively designed, and easy to carry notebooks and school books for students of all ages and classes ranging from nursery to twelfth. Our comprehensive range has included convent notebooks, long notebooks, hardbound registers, drawing copy, practical notebooks, punch paper, A4 registers, exam and answer booklets, clipboards, slip pads, account register, spiral binding register, soft bounding book, and so on.”
Finally, the company is now debuted the packaging sector with full commitment and has started producing monocartons and corrugated boxes required by food, lighting and electronics, textiles, and pharmaceutical firms.
Vardhman’s Commendable Transition
From the past two years, the packaging sector has seen immense growth, but on the other hand, private textbook publishers printing books had a tough time. The shift of commercial printers to carton production had started several years and has increased as schools were shut for almost two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
As per our website (www.ippstar.org), the demand for textbooks has also decreased due to the closure of schools. In addition, several publishers were waiting for the curriculum changes before placing their book production orders for the coming season. Generally, the production for private schools begins in September, and the delivery starts by December, which goes on till March for the following school year.
Rural education and literacy have seen a steep decline since digital Zoom classrooms were more functional and children relied on smartphones in the countryside. As a result, the private schools textbook industry came to a standstill in the past two years. However, schools have some prospects, and hence, textbook demand revoked for the April 2022 school year.
