PAMEX 2020 – India’s iconic printing exhibition on the cards!

Organized by All India Federation of Master Printers (AIFMP) in association with Print-Packaging.com Pvt Ltd. (PPCPL), PAMEX 2020 is an International Exhibition on Printing and Allied Machinery Industry in India. The 13th edition of the biennial show, will be held from January 6-9, 2020 at Bombay Exhibition Centre (BEC), Goregaon in Mumbai. The exhibition is expected to witness more than 400 exhibitors and 40,000 unique visitors from all over India and the neighbouring countries, across the four days.

Apart from the traditional offset and post press technologies, PAMEX 2020 will showcase emerging technologies in the field of:

• 3D, Robotics, RFID printing
• Multiwave LED technology, which can cure conventional and LED UV inks making UV printing greener and more convenient to adopt
• Industrial design and packaging design softwares
• Inkjet B2 presses
• Packaging post press equipment in rigid box making and paper bags

World Print & Communication Forum

On the sidelines of PAMEX 2020, AIFMP will play host to World Print & Communication Forum (WPCF) conference. Scheduled to be held on January 8, 2020, the topic of this year’s conference is Future Printing- Brainstorming with World Leaders. This event will see delegates coming in from all over the world with speakers from Europe, North America, South America and Asia.

National Awards for Excellence in Printing

Another concurrent event is the National Awards for Excellence in Printing (NAEP). The celebrated awards attract printing and packaging experts from across the length and breadth of the country, casting the net deep and wide to unearth the industry’s finest. The awards also include the prestigious Viren Chhabra Print Leadership Award. The Award has been instituted to honour Viren Chhabra’s legacy of a lifetime support and accomplishments for AIFMP. This award recognizes industry veterans who have devoted their time and energy to further the printing Industry in the country.

Print Odyssey – Team PAMEX tours across Kerala!

The domestic promotion for PAMEX 2020 is on full swing. Team PAMEX was present at the 34th Annual Conference of Kerala Printers Association in Thrissur. More than 500 printers were present at the conference and many of them pre-registered to visit Pamex 2020.

On the sidelines of the conference, Team PAMEX launched Print Odyssey – a programme to reach the printers at the grassroot level. The aim of this Odyssey was to understand the need of the printers and to promote the exhibition. The Odyssey was inaugurated on September 29, 2019 by the chief guest T N Prathapan, an MP from Thrissur. The ceremony was performed by the traditional breaking of coconut on the auspicious first day of Navratri.

The next day, Team PAMEX including C. Ravinder Reddy, VP South- AIFMP and Prof Kamal Chopra, Chairman- PAMEX headed to Muringoor. More than 25 printers assembled under one roof. Prof. Kamal Chopra addressed their concerns and suggested them to form clusters to reduce their production cost. It was a fruitful start to the day.

From Muringoor, the Team headed to Kochi and visited Ernakulam City Mehkala. The printers facilitated the Team and presented them with a list of issues they were facing. Reddy and Prof Chopra addressed their concerns and provided necessary solutions.

The next stop was Thrippunithura. The printers were facing an issue regarding recycling of Polymer. There were no recycling plants nearby and they had to send it to Mumbai to correctly dispose it off. Prof Chopra spoke to Parikh of TechNova Industries to resolve the issue. He promised to give them a working solution within 15 days.

The final stop of the day was at the office of Kerala Master Printers Association. A team of 15 printers were present during the presentation of PAMEX. Prof Chopra spoke about the future of Printing and had a lively discussion about 3D Printing. The association promised to send a delegation to visit PAMEX 2020 and also take part in the WPCF conference.

On October 1, 2019, the Team visited CMS Press situated in Kottayam. Established by Rev. Benjamin Bailey, the press opened its doors in 1821. It is the oldest Printing Press in Kerala. Rev. Bailey is known as the Father of Printing across the state.

A team of 20 printers assembled for the meeting there. They raised their issues regarding the different slabs of GST. Prof Chopra spoke in detail about their issue and educated them about the different government programmes they could avail to further the printing industry in the area.

The Odyssey headed towards Thiruvananthapuram while making pit stops at Adoor and Kottarakara. The final stop for the Print Odyssey in the state was at the office of Kerala Printers Association. A team of 20 Printers were present. Prof Chopra spoke of the need to evolve from “Ink on Paper” and embrace the change in the industry.

Reddy congratulated the new office bearers of the association and promised to hold a seminar in the local language where experts would be called in to address various issues such as GST, Raw Material Procurement and Disposal.

“With the beginning on the auspicious occasion of the first day of Navratri festival, Print Odyssey at Kerala was a fantastic experience. I would like to thank C. Ravinder Reddy for his dedication and Mr Ashok Kumar- Treasurer of KPA for his untiring efforts towards the success of this event,” said Prof Chopra.

The entire Odyssey was being updated on the PAMEX Facebook page as it happened. A live video of the visit to the CMS press at Kottayam went viral and was watched by over 3100 people.

Pamex International Outreach Programme Concludes In Bangladesh

Team PAMEX kicked off the International Outreach Programme in Dhaka, Bangladesh on October 12, 2019. The team held an Introductory meet and Press Conference on the sidelines of Printech Bangladesh 2019 which saw major participation by Indian manufacturers.

The meet saw more than 75 exhibitors and visitors along with media personnel. The welcome note was given by Islam, the General Secretary of Printing Industries Association of Bangladesh. Prof Kamal Chopra, Chairman of PAMEX, gave a presentation and spoke about what the printers can expect at Pamex 2020, scheduled to happen from January 6-9, 2020 at Bombay Exhibition Centre, Mumbai.

The presentation was followed by a Question & Answer session. Commenting on the presence of a delegation of printers from Bangladesh at PAMEX 2020, Islam promised that more than 40 printers would be visiting the show in Mumbai.

Prof Chopra also spoke about the WPCF conference in Dhaka. The printers of the region were very keen to attend. The need to look to the future in printing is growing across the world and especially in the Indian subcontinent. Hence the topic “Future Printing- Brain Storming with World Leader” resonated very well with the audience.

“We are very happy with the response we got in Dhaka. With International Outreach Programme, our plan was to reach to the printers directly. We have started on the right note. Next we head to Nepal with a

Print Odyssey planned across the country and also the one day conference and exhibition. With more than 275 exhibitors already on board, PAMEX 2020 is shaping quite well,” said Chopra.