Nilpeter is to manufacture flexo presses in India in a joint venture project with its current sales and service partner Proteck Machinery. The joint venture will manufacture flexo servo presses, with auxiliaries such as rotary screen and cold foil and hot foil stamping.
Nilpeter plans to have the first Indian-built press on its stand at the India Label Show in New Delhi this December.
Proteck is a manufacturing and distribution company headquartered in Chennai. As well as offering sales and technical support services for Nilpeter in India, the company acts as agent and parts manufacturer for a number of other press and equipment manufacturers, including Mitsubishi.
Commenting on the decision to start manufacturing in India, Peter Eriksen, executive assistant at Nilpeter, says, “We believe the potential of the Indian market is huge. Nilpeter is at full capacity in both our US and Danish manufacturing sites, and the Indian market will require a high number of label presses in the near future.”
Eriksen adds, “This calls for producing in a new location with the required capacity, and why not locally, when this in addition brings us closer to our customers, which we consider very important.”
The Indian-built presses are targeted for sale to Indian label converters, but in the longer term Nilpeter will consider exporting to other Asian markets.
The company is said to be building the Indian manufacturing operation on the example of Nilpeter's Brazilian manufacturing joint-venture taking the best experience in the operational and management structures from the latter plant.
The joint venture manufacturing announcement follows the first Indian installation of a Nilpeter FB3300 Servo press at Adjanta Packaging Daman plant. The 8-color UV flexo press incorporates cold foil, hot foil and delam/relam.
In addition to Nilpeter's unveiling their first Indian-built press, the India Label Show will have over 15 working presses from international and local suppliers.
