Kumar Labels expands with a new label printing plant in UAE

Anuj Bhargava, chief executive officer, Kumar Labels, said, “World over, we are witnessing consolidation. Today, Indian firms are looking to expand their business in countries which have huge potential. This JV will help Kumar labels to cater to the international market and become the full flexography solutions provider.”

Meanwhile, Kumar Labels had launched an improved version of its off-line rotary die-cutting machine at PrintPack India 2013. The brand HassleFree Technologies has "eliminated bugs in its beta version of the kit", which was launched during Labelexpo 2012 in New Delhi.

Kumar Labels, who specialise in label manufacturing, was established in June 2007 by Anuj Bhargava with the objective of "becoming a label provider that would not only offer consistent quality, but also quick delivery at reasonable prices."

Bhargava, said, “Being a printer we often faced the challenge to keep our operations flexible, cost effective and yet standardised to achieve consistent quality with minimum work-force. While flat-bed die machines offer a good solution for short to medium runs due to low investment in cutting dies, they require skilled operators and long set-up time. Further, tight screening of cutting quality is required to ensure no deep cutting occurs. Achieving higher speeds is also a challenge. In a quest to resolve all these issues, we moved into manufacturing. We had launched the machine in Labelexpo India 2012. The response at Labelexpo was very encouraging, which prompted us to introduce few up gradation.”

The new version can now output 220 impressions per minute against 180-200 impression of the beta version. “Besides, the beta version created a lot of noise when it was run at high speed. This made is comparably silent even at high speed,” concluded Bhargava.