Dubai-based Delta Printing Press has given details of a $4m investment in new machines so far this year to meet growing demand.
CEO Sujit Vaidya told Packaging MEA that the company has bought an array of equipment including a Heidelberg press, Bobst converting kit, a Kodak imaging system and a Zünd cutter to keep pace with its rising sales.
“We have made regular investments even in the toughest times when printers were fighting for mere survival after increasing their capacities,”said Vaidya.
“In 2014 alone we have invested $4m to enhance our facility. Seeing market trends and the way business is growing, we have increased our capacity in packaging as well as commercial print by installing a Heidelberg CD 104 5-colour sheetfed offset press with inline coating, Kodak thermal CtP system with allied inline Kodak plate processor, a reel-to-sheet sheeter, corrugation laminator, Bobst Novacut 106 Autoplaten die-cutter, Bobst Ambition 106 folder-gluer, Handy pack, Multibend die maker, Zünd G3 L2500 digital cutter for packaging samplemaking applications, and two large-format manual die-cutting machines,” he said.
To maintain profits and margins in the competitive carton market the company is focusing on niche markets and exports, he added.
“The local market is very competitive and congested with existing players and new printers entering the packaging industry,” he said.
“Our packaging strategy is export oriented and working with niche markets where the margins are good.”
Delta sees its success as based upon offering its clients both innovation and quality, he said.
“Only Delta can deliver the confidence that we create in our clients,” he said.
“The growth Delta has achieved in these nine years [since its establishment in 2005] can be attributed to the sheer hard and smart work of the team working in tandem under the leadership of Jalal Kabeer, our chairman and managing director.
“We still consider ourselves young compared to giants in the industry, but surely aim to be one among them in the near future.”
Delta Group includes Delta Printing Press LLC, Brandscape Advertising LLC, Magic Screen LLC, Print Outs, Sahebson Printing Material Trading LLC, La Vora Book Binding LLC, Pulp Advertising LLC, PrintOuts Printing Press (Tanzania) Ltd, Delta Printing Press FZ LLC.
Since its inception in May 2005, the Delta Group has emerged as one of the industry’s leading names in the arena of printing, designing and corporate branding.