AIFMP targets Chinese manufacturers to begin production in India

All India Federation of Master Printers (AIFMP) is to host a business meeting in Shanghai next April as it seeks to persuade Chinese printing machinery manufacturers to start production in India.

L to R: Satish Malhotra, managing director, Swan Press; Keith Ma, senior marketing communication executive at Reed Exhibitions; and Prof. Kamal Chopra, president, AIFMP at the press conference in New Delhi

The three-day meeting, taking place April 11-14, 2017, is targeted at international printers and machinery manufactures in China, and will also see delegates visit facilities around Shanghai to see running production units. The meeting is sponsored by Reed Exhibition, and attendees will only have to pay their travel costs.

Professor Kamal Chopra, AIFMP president, commented: ‘Need of such a meeting was felt when we noticed that packaging printing is growing fast and there is need for diversification. We wish to encourage the printer to adopt packaging printing.

‘India is fast becoming one of the major print producers and manufacturers of printed paper products for the world market, it is essential to discuss and take note of the Chinese system of working, to survive in the global competition.’

AIFMP is also inviting manufacturing companies to build their printing and allied machines in India in collaboration with Indian partners. ‘With the availability of such indigenous machines, the printer will be able to save huge money being spent on capital goods now,’ added Chopra.  

The meeting forms one element of AIFMP’s strategic plans to strengthen the relationship between the Indian and Chinese printing industries, with further importance placed on education. AIFMP has collaborated with Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication (BIGC) where one selected Indian student of printing will get free higher education at BIGC. An MoU for student and teacher exchange has been signed by three Indian universities with BIGC under the aegis of AIFMP.

Chopra also announced that the previously annual Romancing Print seminar will now be organized in four cities in different regions so more printers can participate and benefit from knowledge sharing.

Wider networking with all the printers and allied associations not only in India but world over is on Chopra’s agenda too. He plans to approach not only the Indian government but also UNO and UNESCO to declare February 24 as the International Printers’ Day.

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