HBD Packaging invests in Manroland R707 and Bobst kit; plus a CTP system and finishing kit to meet buyer needs

Greater Noida-based HBD Packaging has invested in a raft of pre-press to press to finishing equipment.

09 Oct 2012 | By Rahul Kumar

The list of ordered and commissioned equipment includes a refurbished Manroland seven-colour Roland 707 sheetfed printing press with online UV and coating — the press can print sheets up to 28x40 inches, a Bobst Expertfold – the folding and gluing machine and a Heiber Schröder – window patching & liner machine, a Busch pile turner from Creed Engineers and a thermal CTP (Screen) solution with a size of 8-up from TechNova.

Along with the number of machines, the packaging printing company also constructed 23,000 sq/ft area and added to its existing facility. Now the total constructed area is around 68,000 sq/ft.
Rajiv Bhargava, managing director, HBD Packaging, said, “Like every company expands its capacity to meet its customer’s  increasing demand of production and delivery, we too expanded for the same reasons. We are expecting 30% annual growth after this investment . Right now, we are growing at 25% with existing facility.”
 
Established in 1985, HBD Packaging is a family-owned business and is run by third generation printers, that is, Rajiv and his wife Seema Bhargava and Neeraj and his wife Ritu Bhargava.
 Rajiv Bhargava, a mechanical engineer from Roorkee University (IIT Roorkee) is very positive on the growth of packaging in the country and said, “Now that the government has allowed FDI in retail, the growth can go as high as 30% annually.”
 
The company converts around 700 MT paperboard per month.  In-house ink kitchen from Siegwerk and testing lab includes a GSM, Cobb, gloss, scuff, bursting strength, pH, humidity, Lab and LcH colour readings through spectrophotometer, bar-code verification software for quality assurance, viscosity and plate quality checking by X-Rite IC Plate II XT and EasyTrax are capable enough to produce the quality jobs.
 
The ISO 9001:2008 certified company produces folding cartons, leaflets, labels, trays, dispensers, fluted cartons and POP materials for its clients like Dabur, SC Johnson Products, Hamdard and Osram India.