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IPAMA’s new governing council members announced
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he elections for the governing council of Indian Printing Packaging & Allied Machinery Manufacturers’ Association (IPAMA), for the term 2019-21, were concluded on 16th October 2019. RK Verma, election officer, declared the names of the winning candidates. The house unanimously proposed and approved the names of Dayaker Reddy as president, Iqbal Singh as honorary general secretary and Dharam Pal Rawat as treasurer – all holding their respective posts presently. The new governing council members of IPAMA include:
Vinay Kumar Gupta (vice president – North), PK Bhalla (vice president – West), Jaiveer Singh (vice president – East), R Suresh Kumar (vice president – South), Rakesh K Sodhi (joint secretary – East), Satish Kaushik (joint secretary – West), Dharmesh Arora (joint secretary – North), Harish Bansal (joint secretary – South), Adithya Gupta, DH Deshpande, DK Garg, Mahesh Tanwar, Manish A Panchal, Nitin Garg, Ravinder Singh, S Rajaram, TD Raghani,
The elections for the governing council of IPAMA for the term 2019-21 were concluded in October 2019
TR Mahajan, Ashok Kumar Seth – co-opted, Gagan Singh – co-opted and BS Rawat – co-opted. The new office bearers expressed their commitment to work as a team for the betterment
of the Indian Graphic Arts Industry so that it can complete with the best machinery and equipment available in the global market. They also expressed their commitment to work. z
Omet opens office in India
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met has announced the opening of its new subsidiary Omet India Private Limited based in Gurugram, Delhi-NCR. “Omet is already an established brand in the Indian subcontinent where we cater to leading label printers such as Huhtamaki PPL, Zircon, Renault, Pragati Pack, Any Graphics, Unique Photo Offset and others. With opening of Omet India, we look forward to increase our ever growing list of customers and also provide highly customized technical solutions to printers, as Omet is a global leader in providing such solutions,” said Paolo Grasso, global sales head for Omet.
According to Omet, India as one of it’s important strategic markets to focus on. Additionally rise in the middle class income, expansion of large scale organized retail trade, increasing presence of e-commerce companies and increasing demand of packaged food in India are all indicators of an assured double digit growth of packaging sector of the country.
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Since 2010, Omet has been exclusively sold and serviced in India through Weldon Celloplast, who will continue to represent Omet in India along with other partners. “The vision of establishing Omet India is to strengthen our existing relationships with our partners and provide a great service experience to our customers all over the region,” said Pawandeep Sahni, who has been appointed to lead Omet in India and the subcontinent. Indian customers of Omet too reacted positively to this expansion. Sanjeev Sondhi of Zircon Technologies who runs multiple Omet presses said, “It is a very positive initiative for Omet to invest in an office in India. This will be a great support in terms of response and service to Indian customers. We at Zircon congratulate the Omet team led by Pawandeep Sahni and reiterate our commitment to increase our business and cooperation with Omet in coming days.” “A closer relationship with the industry and our customers will help Omet to develop
Pawandeep Sahni and Andrea Calcagni of Omet
innovative projects as well as improve business processes for our customers hence continuing our philosophy of innovation with passion, globally,” said Marco Calcagni, sales and marketing director, Omet. “In the coming years we expect Omet India to become yet another center of excellence for Omet, in addition to our subsidiaries in USA, China and Spain.” z