The Haridwar plant was formally showcased to visitors and TCPL customers on 14 and 15 October. The plant converts 14,00 tons of board packaging every month, and employs 230 employees and boasts of a turnover of Rs 125 crore.
D Loganathan, senior general manager, operations, said: "This expansion has increased our capacity. After installing the KBA Rapida with corona effect, we have increased our capacity by ten times. Now, we can do deliver faster to our new and existing customers."
The plant also contains an offline UV varnishing machine as well as gravure metal printing machines for enhancement of print quality and including metallic colours like gold and silver.
On the converting front, TCPL has Bobst die-cutters and folder-gluers and several ancillary equipments which include hot foil stamping machines, window patching-cum-liner machines, a holographic effect machine from Guangdong, foil stamping machine from Yoko and Steinmann lamination machine.
The plant also has an ink matching centre set up by Siegwerk. TCPL’s Haridwar plant and all the three plants in Silvassa are ISO 9001:2008, BRC and ISO 22000 (new standard for ISO, combination of higher standard for food packaging, lays emphasis on hygiene and safety practices and combines ISO 9000) certified.
As part of its expansion plans, TCPL recently purchased an additional plot of land in the vicinity of this plant to set up a corrugation unit that will mainly produce E-flute corrugated cartons. The unit is expected to commence operation by March 2012.
The Haridwar facility spans across 10,000 sq/mts of land and has been designed by a Swiss firm of industrial architects. Originally, the total constructed area of this plant covered only 7,000 sq/mts. Post-expansion, the total constructed encompasses around 9,000 sq/mts of plant area.
Now the plant is equipped with two Mitsubishi Diamond 3000 six-colour plus coater sheetfed offset printing presses and a brand-new KBA Rapida 106 (760x160 mm) with corona effect and online coating at the speed of 18,000 impressions an hour. This uniquely designed KBA is the first of its kind in Asia.
TCPL has an impressive list of clientele from the FMCG, beverage, stationery, pharmaceuticals, and the airline sector. Heinz, Cadbury, General Mills, Marvel Tea, Nestle, Colgate, Marico, Godrej, Johnson and Johnson and Hindustan Unilever are some of the big brands TCPL has been serving.
