“One can kickstart a business with just Rs 5 lakh” – Deepak Saini

Faridabad-based Shyam Techno Prints is a paper bag-making machine manufacturer. Established in 2019, just before the Covid-19 pandemic started, the company earlier produced consumables and spare parts. As the pandemic hit the nation and there was a total lockdown, the company stayed by supplying spare parts. It also made mask manufacturing machines during the pandemic. Since the Covid-19 restrictions were removed, the company resumed manufacturing machines to make paper bags.

Participating in the recently concluded PrintPack India for the first time the company booked many orders. To date, it has delivered 70 machines across the country, with many more in the pipeline.

“A company’s competitiveness is mainly determined by the quality of the products and services it delivers to its consumers,” said Deepak Saini, director, Shyam Techno Print. The company produces and manufactures its STP-PBM 0812/1018/1418/1824/1018P/1418P/1824P machines with options for single or multicolor flexographic printing or without flexo printing unit for automatic V bottom, square bottom, medical pouches, and many other applications. The paper thickness that can be used on these machines ranges from 30 to 120 gsm while the length of the paper can range from 80-610 millimeters, and the width from 60-455 millimeters. The machine can produce 900 paper bags in a minute.

The Shyam Techno Print paper bag-making machines produce bags without handles for food, shopping, grocery, and medical bags for X-rays and other sectors. The machine has side gluing and center pasting options for a variety of customer requirements.

The company buys adhesives from local manufacturers and also provides customers with the recipe to brew their adhesives at home, which can be a cost-effective solution. It uses Dolphin inks for printing paper bags and for its customer demonstrations.

Saini says, “One can kickstart a business with a minimal amount of Rs 5 lakh. Our machines can be available at a tiny amount from Rs 5-25 lakh for the smaller devices and for the big machines it can go up to Rs 45-55 lakh.”

The company has an expansion plan to grow its market in South India. It will participate in more exhibitions and plans to attend the PackPlus event in Delhi, taking place from 7-9 July.

The Covid-19 pandemic led to the country-wide lockdown on 25 March 2020. It will be two years tomorrow as I write this. What have we learned in this time? Maybe the meaning of resilience since small companies like us have had to rely on our resources and the forbearance of our employees as we have struggled to produce our trade platforms.

The print and packaging industries have been fortunate, although the commercial printing industry is still to recover. We have learned more about the digital transformation that affects commercial printing and packaging. Ultimately digital will help print grow in a country where we are still far behind in our paper and print consumption and where digital is a leapfrog technology that will only increase the demand for print in the foreseeable future.

Web analytics show that we now have readership in North America and Europe amongst the 90 countries where our five platforms reach. Our traffic which more than doubled in 2020, has at times gone up by another 50% in 2021. And advertising which had fallen to pieces in 2020 and 2021, has started its return since January 2022.

As the economy approaches real growth with unevenness and shortages a given, we are looking forward to the PrintPack India exhibition in Greater Noida. We are again appointed to produce the Show Daily on all five days of the show from 26 to 30 May 2022.

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