TCPL extends capacities with another KBA Rapida 106

TCPL Packaging was founded in 1990 by the Kanoria family and today it is one of India’s largest manufacturers of folding cartons with six production sites. Every plant is ISO 9001 and 22000 accredited, and follows strict standards set for vendors of food packaging. Plants in Silvassa and Haridwar are also FSC certified.

The company prints and finishes 3,600 tonnes of carton every month or 43,360 tonnes per year. Its sales have risen from 1.31 million USD at the start of the 1990s to 69 million USD today.

The new 8-color KBA Rapida 106 press with coater ordered by TCPL Packaging is equipped for printing board and film. It will be set-up for UV mixed operation allowing the firm to offer maximum flexibility in terms of in-line finishing. The press which will be raised by 450mm (17.7in) is equipped with features typical for packaging printing, such as non-stop automatic facilities at the feeder and delivery, a coating supply and cleaning system, IR/TA/UV drying systems in the delivery extension, as well as four VariDry UV interdeck dryers.

Automatic plate changers, impression cylinder, blanket and roller washing units for conventional and UV printing and EES exhaust-air cleaning system round off the press’ kit, which KBA said boosts productivity.

It is the third KBA Rapida 106 press installed by TCPL Packaging in Silvassa, where it operates three plants, and follows a 6-color model with coater installed in 2013 and a 7-color and coater version in 2014. The new KBA Rapida 106 will go live in 2015.

In addition, a KBA Rapida 106 with six printing units, coater and delivery extension mainly for handling plastic film has been in operation at the company’s plant in Haridwar for three years. Products combining the sheet-fed offset and sheet-fed gravure printing processes are also produced there.

Pictured (from left): KBA sales engineer Bhupinder Sethi; KBA sales director Dietmar Heyduck; and Saket Kanoria, TCPL Packaging chief executive officer