Bio-degradable paper packaging solution also on display

Sivakasi-based Suri Graphix has showcased its paper and paperboard-based packaging solutions at the ProPak India 2022, being held in Bengaluru from 21-23 September. The company prints and converts monocartons, paper bags, paper bowls, food boxes, lunch boxes, ice cream boxes, and tag cards. It supplies these packaging solutions to customers based mainly in the three southern states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Kerala. 

“At ProPak, we are showing our complete range of solutions. Our major customers are in the food industry, about 60% of our business comes from this segment. We have started focusing on compostable packaging solutions. Right now, most of our solutions are PE coated, but there is a gradual increase in demand for sustainable solutions from our customers. The share, though, is still pretty small, mainly because of the high prices of fully compostable boxes and cartons. We have a very strong product development department,” says A Krishna, owner of Suri Graphix.

At its manufacturing unit, Suri Graphix operates a slew of machines. It has a Heidelberg 5-color offset press, Bobst Novacut 3.0 die cutter, Eterna folder gluer, Zund sample maker, UV varnish coating machine, foil stamping machine, rigid box maker, carton erecting machine, paper bowl making machine, window patching machine, and a paper bag making machine. The company converts about 100 tons of paper and paperboard every month.

Krishna says that the paper-based packaging industry is poised for robust growth in the coming years as brand owners will enhance their demand for more paper-based packaging solutions. 

“We are very positive about the growth in the paper and paperboard-based packaging industry in the medium to long run. We are also ready with biodegradable solutions. Our aim is to work with bigger brands as we have all the expertise and the technology at our disposal,” he concludes. 

The Covid-19 pandemic led to the country-wide lockdown on 25 March 2020. It will be two years tomorrow as I write this. What have we learned in this time? Maybe the meaning of resilience since small companies like us have had to rely on our resources and the forbearance of our employees as we have struggled to produce our trade platforms.

The print and packaging industries have been fortunate, although the commercial printing industry is still to recover. We have learned more about the digital transformation that affects commercial printing and packaging. Ultimately digital will help print grow in a country where we are still far behind in our paper and print consumption and where digital is a leapfrog technology that will only increase the demand for print in the foreseeable future.

Web analytics show that we now have readership in North America and Europe amongst the 90 countries where our five platforms reach. Our traffic which more than doubled in 2020, has at times gone up by another 50% in 2021. And advertising which had fallen to pieces in 2020 and 2021, has started its return since January 2022.

As the economy approaches real growth with unevenness and shortages a given, we are looking forward to the PrintPack India exhibition in Greater Noida. We are again appointed to produce the Show Daily on all five days of the show from 26 to 30 May 2022.

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