New office bearers for IPAMA
Indian Printing, Packaging and Allied
Machinery Manufacturers’ Association
(IPAMA) has elected its new office bearers
and its Governing Council members for the
term 2008-2010 at its recently held 70th
Governing Council meeting in New Delhi.
Sanjay Gupta of K K Printing Machines Mfg
Co Pvt Ltd (Ballabgarh) was elected
as president, K S Khurana of Five Star
Printing Machinery Co (Amritsar) is
the general secretary and Satish
Bajwa of Pressline India Pvt Ltd (New
Delhi) is the new treasurer.
A D Chatterjee of DIC India Ltd,
Kollkata; Jitendra S Doshi of S S Doshi
Engineers Pvt Ltd, Mumbai; C N
Ashok of Autoprint Machinery Mfrs (P) Ltd,
Coimbatore and N S Manku of Joy D-Zign
Engineers Pvt Ltd, New Delhi
were elected as the vice
presidents of East, West, South
and North regions respectively.
The elected joint secretaries, C
P Dahra of Dahra Engineering
Co, Faridabad; J S Kalsi of Kalbro
Manufacturing Co, Faridabad; T R Mahajan
of Indo Poly Machines Corporation,
Amritsar and C P Paul of Abhishek Print
Line, Faridabad will take the responsibilities
of east, west, south and north regions
respectively.
IPAMA, founded in 1991, is an apex body
and is playing a pivotal role for the
development of printing, packaging and allied
machinery segment.
According to a recent survey, the Indian
printing industry has consistently outpaced
GDP growth and is poised to achieve 60%
growth by the year 2010 and can generate
phenomenal increase in employment
opportunities. To meet this ever growing and
continuous demand for high-speed and hightech
printing, packaging and converting
machines – the Indian graphic arts machine
manufacturers, of course, being aware of the
challenge before them need to commit
themselves to fulfill the need of the nation
to give technologically update machines and
related equipments matching to international
standards and quality. The printing and
packaging industry in India and its quality
output in the form of magazines, newspapers,
books, catalogues, packaging products has
come up to international standards.
Keeping in view globalization and the massive
electronic and information technology’s
direct impact on graphic arts industry, IPAMA
is now gearing up to have an exposition of
latest innovations in the entire gamut of
printing, signage, packaging and converting
in all segments of pre-press, press, post-press
and finishing, by holding ‘PRINTPACK INDIA
2009’ with India Trade Promotion
Organisation (ITPO) from January 18-23,
2009 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.
