Parakh Agro’s vision 2020

Parakh Agro's vision is amply evident in a visit to its flexible packaging plant an hr's drive from Pune city. The 10-acre plant sits forth with the group's nutrient processing plant within a 22-acre facility. During Packaging S Asia's near recent visit in mid-Apr 2022 construction work for the contempo expansion and modernization was in its final finishing phase. Shardul Sharma reports

P arakh's renewed state-of-the-art infrastructure has the ability to rapidly ramp up production capacity up to 24,000 tonnes per annum (TPA) within the existing congenital-up area from the electric current installed capacity of seven,000 TPA. The synthetic area and infrastructure is highly scalable – it tin can accommodate another half dozen blown picture lines and five more printing lines in addition to the iii that are at present already in place.

Parakh's flexible packaging division began this infrastructure and man re source expansion more than a year agone.

Bobst F&Yard CI Flexo at Parakh Agro's
institute virtually Pune. Photo PSA

There are iii primary highlights as far every bit the hardware a Bobst F&K 10-color high-speed CI flexo press with a speed of 500 metres a minute; a Super Combi 3000 laminator from Nordmeccanica with a speed of 400 metres a minute and a Roboslit RL auto turret slitting car from SP Ultrafex with a speed of 650 metres a minute.

"The growth we want could not be realized with the printing capacity we had as catering to the superlative customers with high quality and high volume demands was becoming challenging. Quality, cost and delivery turned into a large problem," says Vinay Nalawade, who heads the flexible packaging division. Before these new additions arrived, the institute already deployed Varex fully au tomated blown film extrusion lines from Windmoeller & Hoelscher, and loftier-end 8-color W&H Miraflex and Soloflex CI broad spider web flexo presses, a Nordmeccanica, an SP Ultraflex 350 metres a minute slitter from SP Ultraflex every bit well as a Titan slitter-rewinder. In addition it operates a complete in-business firm prepress department
using Kodax Flexcel NX workflow and digital imaging organization for making high quality flexo plates.

Focus on quality and delivery

According to Nalawade, the desire to meet the demands of niche segments has brought nigh the current investment. The aim is to aggrandize the customer base by penetrating different segments of the flexible packaging industry with an increase in exports also existence seen as vitally important. "Achieving these aims was becoming difficult with the capacity constraints we faced, especially in the printing department, which will now exist taken care of by the improver of the Bobst F&One thousand printing. We can now bargain with whatsoever type of flexible packaging cloth and with a greater focus on quality and delivery nosotros can at present hope to need a premium," Nalawade says with confidence.

Parakh Agro already produces laminates for segments such as baby care, food and confectionery. Its specialty films are for segments such as babe care, dairy, pharma while its commodity films target the edible oil segment. Additionally, the visitor has acquired engineering from Elecster of Finland for the production of original pre-sterilized films.

The project 12k

These investments are expected to translate into results in the 2022-17 fiscal year. With the new infrastructure and capacity in identify, sales are expected to rise from 500 to 600 tonnes a calendar month to 1,000 tonnes a month or 12,000 TPA in the near future.

Parakh's growth rate is expected to accelerate in comparison to the five-year span between the previous expansion in 2010 and the current investment stage kickoff in 2015 and early 2022. Nalawade is persuasively optimistic, "We at present have the right team in identify which is set up and we take a much bigger customer base which has trust in us. Equally we look to grow faster, our adjacent investment phase should not take another five years just perchance afterwards just iii years."

Roboslit RL slitting machine from
SP Ultrafex. Photograph PSA

Not only is the next investment cycle expected to start before than previous expansion cycles, the nature of the expansion is likewise expected to qualitatively change – with Parakh Agro focussing on the surroundings and the light-green aspect of packaging production. Low energy consumption and recyclability are things are of prime importance to Parakh and going forrard these desirable qualities volition be translated into practical and measurable attributes of the packaging materials that it produces. Additionally, the plan is to enter extremely underexploited packaging segments in India which have great potential such every bit paper packaging.

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