Countdown to PAMEX 2011: info from TAFCON

PAMEX 2011 (Nov 01–04) in New Delhi will showcase the display of generation next technologies from worldwide solution providers, across categories of pre-press, in-press, post-press, publishing, signage under one roof. This prestigious graphic arts industry event is organised by AIFMP and TAFCON as associate organiser. As per Manoj B Mehta, president, AIFMP, “PAMEX is the only international brand, of graphic arts trade fair in India and AIFMP along with its 59 affiliated Printing Associations has left no stone unturned in supporting and promoting it.” The event will provide organisations, the opportunity to break through the clutter and grab the attention of its target segment.

The newly signed partnership between Heidelberg and Ricoh will be on display at its best, at PAMEX. The product range in digital production printing will definitely, delight the industry from graphic arts customers to print for pay professionals and corporate institutes. TechNova Imaging will come out with full range of CtP technologies (thermal, violet, UV and Inkjet) and a range of green solutions. Having joined forces with Oce, Canon will distribute Oce products in the areas of production printing, wide format signage.

Digital printing is growing at much higher rate. India prints 150 million pages per month. Xerox has hundreds of installations in the country, HP speaks of matching 100 installations of Indigo, Canon speaks of 75 customers, Komori has achieved 100 installations. All these companies will put their best in the displays at PAMEX. Players in photo printing industry are expanding their business with digital printing. Product range of Mehta Cad Cam, laser engraving, cutting plotters and small sized flatbed printers will be on display.

With Kodak, visitors will witness integrated workflow solutions for packaging, commercial printing, publishing, data driven communications or document imaging. Bobst India will provide the Swiss technology solutions for printing and converting industries in the packaging sectors. Now, one can print at high speed POP/POS and other advertising material on semi rigid and rigid substrates, sun board / acrylic, on fully automatic flat bed, on screen printing machines of Grafica Flextronica. Reprographic Systems who has now emerged as digital/offset print finishing equipments supplier for paper and glue coating machine, table top binding equipments, will also present their products.

PAMEX 2011 will also display, state-of-the-art printing technologies, machinery and equipments and innovative solutions from other industry leaders including Sandvik, UV Graphic Technologies, Esko Graphics, Heiber+Schroder; solutions from HP, KBA, Fortec Binding Systems, Indo European Machinery, Autoprint, SL Kulkarni Cyril Graphic, Xerox and many more.

Besides, adjunct programmes like Print Congress, Buyer & Seller Meets are being planned to be held alongside the Expo. “By the time, PAMEX 2011 is ready to open for the visitors in November, the content of the show is expected to be an all time great. The convergence of global printing industry players will be ideal for the industry in India, enabling the professionals, policy makers, equipment manufacturers, entrepreneurs, a stock taking of the developments in the printing industry,” conveyed Veerendra Malik,hairman, PAMEX 2011.