Parksons Packaging, India’s
leading monocarton company has diversified into the production of SoliQ branded
corrugated carton trays under license from BillerudKorsnäs (Sweden). Designed
specifically for fruit and vegetables, the special SoliQ marked corrugated
boxes are manufactured according to stringent quality standards ensuring that
the contents are protected throughout their supply chain.
Parksons Packaging’s
diversification into this new vertical of branded corrugated cartons, means
investing in new equipment for corrugation, multi-color flexographic printing
and slotting and creasing at the Chakan plant in Western India. However, its
design and sample-making infrastructure was already in place, Parksons is a
long-time user of Esko software including ArtiosCAD for the structural design
of folding cartons. Parksons Chairman Mr. Ramesh Kejriwal says, “The Esko
prepress system with ArtiosCAD software helped us in building our packaging
design facility into a vibrant innovation centre called Design Park.”
The diversification from offset
to flexography and the change from folding cartons to printed corrugated trays
have been smooth because of the familiarity and confidence in Esko software
tools and sample making hardware. Parksons Packaging was the first Indian
packaging converter to install a Kongsberg XL series sample maker when it was
launched in 2001. Having found the first Kongsberg XL most reliable, the saga
of trust has continued with Parksons’ installation of the Kongsberg V20 sample
making table for the new diversification project.
Parksons Packaging Chairman
Ramesh Kejriwal, says that, “The new sample maker was essential because of the
larger size needed for the sampling of corrugated cartons.Its ts immense
robustness and flexibility means that it can cut and crease samples and short
runs of both folding cartons and special corrugated cartons. The Kongsberg V20
can handle materials of sizes up to 1750 x 1650 mm. Its flexibility means that
we can cut rubber blankets that are needed for the spot varnishing of folding
cartons but we can also cut flexographic plates for mounting on our new
multi-color flexo printer slotter. Our familiarity with the use of multiple
Esko sample makers at our several plant locations made it a natural progression
to the Kongsberg V20 when we were contemplating sample making for the corrugation
business.”
Parksons has the complete
prepress and workflow software from Esko to drive both folding carton and
corrugated carton production. Mr. Kejriwal explains, “The Esko prepress
software has been the backbone of our folding carton production. Thus the
prepress and design infrastructure was in place and our familiarity and
confidence in the appropriate tools and particularly in ArtiosCAD, helped us
with our diversification. With the knowledge that Esko has of the flexo
workflow we were encouraged to extend their prepress system to our
diversification in the corrugation business. It’s simply a combination of
leading edge software and in the case of the sample maker, hardware - reliability and trust.”
Srihari Rao, Esko’s Director of
Sales for India recalls the strong relationship with a pioneering and
ever-growing partner, “We highly value our long relationship with Parksons
Packaging. As this company continues with expansion and diversification to new
locations and new segments, it can count on us at Esko as trusted partners.
We’ll help Parksons Packaging to leverage its human resource and investment in
our prepress and workflow technology”.
