Zircon strengthens label production before packaging move

With an investment of nearly 3 million USD in the last year, Zircon Technologies is taking significant steps to strengthen its position in the label industry before diversifying into print and packaging verticals. The company has confirmed the purchase of its third Omet press within 20 months of its first order. This fully loaded new 10-color Omet X4 press is expected to be installed by December 2015.

After the Omet Varyflex, one of the biggest presses in India, was installed at Zircon Technologies in September 2013, the company commissioned the first Omet X4 in November 2014 after Labelexpo India for its main plant in Dehradun. Zircon Technologies currently has three plants in India: two in Dehradun and one
in Chennai.

To cater to some prominent brands in India and enable speedy growth in new markets, Zircon Technologies will also add a rotary hotfoil unit from Omet on the existing Xflex press. Pawandeep Singh Sahni, director of marketing at Weldon Celloplast and exclusive agent of Omet flexo presses in India, says of the purchase: ‘By integrating a rotary hotfoil unit in-line on the existing press, the company will be able to make faster deliveries to its customers. The other advantage is that it is a movable unit so none of the flexo stations get wasted for hotfoil stamping.’