Autoprint Machinery Manufacturers Joint MD, K.G.Suresh has been conferred with the Lifetime Achievement Award by IPAMA. PRESSIdeas has an exclusive talk.
K.G. Suresh – Joint Managing Director – Autoprint machinery manufacturers Pvt Ltd. has recently received the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award from IPAMA. The award recognizes Mr. Suresh’s outstanding contribution to the Printing Industry.
“It is nice to receive the prestigious award from IPAMA. We think this award is for the team of Autoprint and I am proud to be a part of that,” comments Mr. K.G.Suresh while speaking about the recent achievement.
Mr. K.G. Suresh is a BE from PSG College of Technology and an M.Tech (Gold Medalist) from IIT (Chennai). He started his career in the year 1984 – 1985 as Graduate Engineer in Telco. After completion of M.Tech he served in M/s India Pistons for 4 Years from 1986 to 1990 specializing in Machine Building. He was also a top Tennis player, ranked 7th in India.
Having identified the need for quality Small Offset Printing machines with good after sales service back up, Mr. K.G. Suresh, as the Director – Technical, together with Mr. C.N. Ashok, started Autoprint Machinery Mfrs (P) Ltd, in the year 1992.
The Printing Industry is indebted to him for his numerous contributions for the growth of the Industry as well as its people. With his ability to develop products based on the market needs, he has conceptualized and made available many reliable products for the Printing industry at affordable prices. His passion for creating products has added value to the customers and eased work for the operators using solutions that came from his hands and running across the globe. Autoprint machines are known for quality and durability and have proud owners in the US, France, Spain, Bulgaria and many other countries.
He not only possesses the complete knowledge in all the areas of manufacturing a product – from designing to selecting optimum materials with proper metallurgy, developing jigs fixtures and tooling for high precision part production, envisaging quick assembly methods, setting up testing standards, installation and after sales support – but he has also crafted success for Autoprint which today boasts installation of more than 12500 machines in India and abroad.
Autoprint started initially with Mini Offset Printing Machines (single-, double- and four-colour) and moved on to, pack to pack printing machines, Intermittent label printing machines, Numbering machines, Aqueous and UV Coating machines, Die cutting machines, Carton inspection machines, Blanking machines, etc.
Mr. K.G. Suresh is the central force at Autoprint and is presently the Joint Managing Director of the company. New product development, Quality and Service at Autoprint are handled by K G Suresh and his team of engineers.
He teams up with Mr. Ashok – who is the CEO and Managing Director – and his team of capable executives to lead the company from the front. Mr. Ashok handles sales, production, Finance and all other operations for Autoprint.
Autoprint at Printpack
Autoprint participated with the Dextra 80 die cutting machine in Print pack. “This machine has the facility to add a Hot foil attachment which would be the first automatic hot foil stamping machine produced in India,” informs Suresh. Autoprint participated with Popli Graphics, their partner for North India.
In spite of the pandemic Autoprint did well in the recent year, and their exports have been good. “We had a good show and there has been a lot of interest for all our products,” shares Suresh speaking about their Printpack experience.
The Dextra 80 Die cutting machine had a live demo at Printpack India 2022. Autoprint demonstrated the machine at full capacity with a very difficult embossing job. Visitors were quite impressed with the demonstration and interest was quite high.
“Our focus on the show was solutions for mono cartons solutions. We have a range of products for automating the mono cartons post printing. We have an offline drip off machine FC80 DO, Dextra 80 die cutting machine, BL108 Blanking machine, Checkmate 25/50 Carton inspection machine, all of which reduces at least 50% of manpower. Each of these products has many unique features which make the products very reliable and user friendly. Return on investments of all these products will be very fast to our customers,” says Suresh, elaborating on their Printpack showcase.
When asked about their future plans, Suresh is pretty clear when he says, “We have more than 12500 machines installed, both in domestic and exports. We expect our markets to keep growing for some more time.”
“Autoprint machines are built reliable, they come with simple operation, easy maintenance and at affordable prices, and we continue to develop new products with the same core objective,” he affirms.
The key segments catered by Autoprint are Mono Carton Segment, mini Offset Segment and Job working segments. The after sales services for each segment are handled by Autoprint service engineers across India. They have over 40 engineers in the team. Besides, now Autoprint is capable of handling remote service support; the capability was enhanced due to pandemic. “Now we even install high end machines in export by remote support successfully. Many of them have even given us repeat orders after successful remote installations,” reveals Suresh.