Sanjay Chopra started Pack System in 1991 in a 900-square-foot area in east Delhi’s Laxmi Nagar. The company began as a packaging plant where the printing was outsourced. The box-making plant, which manufactures printed corrugated boxes, printed monocartons and rigid boxes, had seven manual machines for lamination, pasting, and die-cutting.
The company moved to a 25,000 square feet working space spread across floors in Noida’s Sector 63 in 2005 with an old refurbished Heidelberg 6-color plus coater for printing. The company has four corrugation machines from Micro, Mumbai, two flute laminators and a diecutting machine from Chinese manufacturers, seven Victoria manual die-cutting machines, and an automatic dry lamination machine and a high-speed automatic corrugation machine, both from Chinese manufacturers.
Pack System acquired a DGM TechnoFold 1100 SL automatic folder gluer from DGM six months ago. Chopra is happy with the latest installation at an adjoining space of 75,000 square feet at a walking distance from the main factory. He said the DGM machine had an overall good performance combined with quality service.
Chopra said it was not an easy decision to choose DGM. However, Puneet Aggarwal of DGM convinced him about the technology and advanced features of DGM machines.Â
Pack System prints approximately 8 lakh sheets per month and supplies monocartons, corrugated and rigid boxes to Jharkhand, Gujarat, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana. It is into specialized and high-quality cartons that carry high value.
According to Chopra, the price of raw material is a pain point in the industry as convincing clients to pay the revised manufacturing rates is difficult. Another challenge he mentioned was the rising competition in the Indian packaging industry with commercial printers diversifying into packaging to sustain themselves. This has given rise to a greater competition and a price war, he said, adding there is a lot of growth in the packaging space despite the competition.
