Chooses a Rhyguan SMART-450 slitter-rewinder with Luster 100% inspection camera for its cost-effectiveness.
Pune-based Sai Paks India is an award-winning offset, flexo and rotogravure printing company which invests in the best machines and equipment be it the press or its post-press division. Recently, the company chose a Rhyguan SMART-450 slitter-rewinder with Luster 100% inspection camera from Flexo Image Graphics (FIG).
Sai Paks (formerly Sai Arts) got incorporated in 1991. “We started from scratch, merely engaging in manual screen printing at the outset,” recalls Mr Deepan Samarth, Managing Director of Sai Paks India. He adds, “Since then we never ever remained idle in upgrading machine portfolio and boosting business to the next level.” Mr Deepan is joined by his two sons in the business—Mr Tejas Samarth and Mr Tushar Samarth as Directors of Sai Paks India.
Current machine portfolios at the two production facilities of Sai Paks at Chinchwad and Talawde in Pune consist of offset presses from Heidelberg and Shinohara, flexo press from Zonten, rotogravure presses from Sanmach, Mark Andy from FIG, and so on. Among which the Rhyguan SMART-450 is one of the key machines running efficiently for post-press process. “We opted for this cutting-edge Rhyguan slitting & rewinding machine from FIG for its cost-effectiveness,” tells Mr Deepan.
He adds, “We would rather say Rhyguan SMART-450 is very economical as we never worried about its ROI. In fact, this 100% inspection slitter-rewinder machine with capacity to re-inspect up to 300m/min is reasonably priced when compared to others in its class. In addition to its cost-effectiveness, Rhyguan Smart 450 is fully packed with advanced features which every standard slitter-rewinder must have.”
With choices of web widths, viz. 330mm, 450mm and 520mm, Rhyguan Smart-450 is based on advanced servo technology which provides perfect web control with separately adjustable web tension for the unwind and rewind sections. It’s highly versatile to take up abroad range of materials and applications. Mr Deepan says Rhyguan SMART-450 is not the first machine from FIG at Sai Paks. “Around eight years ago, we brought Pune’s first Mark Andy Performance Series P5 press from FIG along with a Rotoflex slitter-rewinder,” he mentions.
Sai Paks’ success is an outcome of its years of commitment accompanied by the fleet of high-end machines and equipment. The company has been recognised with multiple accolades of Global Print Excellence Awards 2023, National Awards for Excellence in Printing 2019 & 2023, LMAI Label Awards 2022, PrintWeek Awards 2022 & 2023 (Innovative Printer of The Year), among others, in recognition of its outstanding works and services.
“After all, we would like to say a big thank you to FIG for the machines and their unprecedented after-sales support they provide us. We further look forward to getting more machines and support from them,” assets Mr Deepan. FIG supports its customers through a centralised ‘Customer Support Department’ connecting across its head office in Delhi and branches in Mumbai and Chennai.
FIG is one of the leading distributors & service providers of flexo presses & associated equipments in the Indian sub-continent, where it provides solutions from Rhyguan, Mark Andy, Rotoflex, Luster, Kluge, KDS Quantum, Presstek, etc.
