Darshana V Jardosh, Minister of State, Ministry of Textiles inaugurated the first edition of SCREENTEX India 2022, at Hall No. 11, Pragati Maidan on July 29, 2022. She applauded the effort of the organisers to host a focused trade show for the Screen Printing Industry. She said increased collaboration between international companies for adoption of technology is an important step towards “Make in India” Atmanirbhar Bharat and was happy to note many Indian manufacturers showcasing their machinery and allied products.
Screen Printers Association of India (SPAI, the apex body of screen printers across India organised a trade show on Screen Printing Technology, Machinery, Materials and Allied Products titled SCREENTEX India 2022, between July 29 and 31 in Hall No 11 at Pragati Maidan New Delhi, jointly with S.J. Expositions Pvt Ltd. At the end of the three days SCREENTEX India established itself as a focused trade show for the Screen Printing industry.
Conceived with an objective to create a platform for the stakeholders of the sector, SCREENTEX India 2022 acted as a technology platform bridging the gap between innovation and application by bringing the international suppliers and indigenous buyers related to Screen, Textile and Digital, Sublimation & UV Printing. Show attracted 4024 business visitors from across the countries which include many who wanted to get into screen printing business.
Visitors highly appreciated the latest innovations in Screen and Textile, /Digital Printing Machinery Screen and Textile Printing Materials, Sublimation Printing along with materials, accessories, inks and allied products from leading suppliers. The event was supported by FESPA, SGCCI, IPAMA and others. Fujifilm, Photokina, Zibo Group were the Platinum Sponsors and Huber Group, J.N.Arora, Unitech were the Gold Sponsors of the event.
The Indian Screen Printing Industry can be defined as multicoloured and multi-layered. In the last 5 decades, it has touched almost all segments like textile, ceramic, industrial, CDs, POPs, advertising and digital. In the Indian context the Screen printing industry is reasonably young but galloping at a faster clip. The Indian Screen Printing industry can be said to have about 1,00,000 to 125,000 printers of all sizes. Post Covid the industry is picking up steam. Suppliers are on the lookout for newer technology to match their expansion plans. The screen printing industry has been continuously expanding at a healthy annual growth rate in excess of 15 percent.
Workshop cum Seminar “Print Ki Patshala” on 30th July was the highlight of event
Concurrent to the exhibition a sub-event titled “Print Ki Patshala”was organised. It was an interactive activity in which subject matter experts drove the conversation with the delegates. The seminar was informative and educational in nature as it was demonstrative. Workshop was geared towards imparting new skills to the delegates under an instructor which left a lasting impression. It also provided an insight about the emerging trends and opportunities.
Theme: future of Screen Printing split into three sessions
1. Creating standards for textile transfer, Speaker – Bhavesh Shah, Ultranex Transfer Release Film
2. Printed Electronics – Next Generation Screen Printing Application Speaker – Shiv Prasad Keetronics, Pune
3. Flexible Circuits – Newer Application In Screen Printing Speakers – Dr. Mustafa Kapadia – Colors Virendra Sawant – Cutek Circuits, Pune
“It is important for one’s business to stay updated and cater to the demands of the customers. Keeping a watch on the emerging technology is important for modernising and expanding your business. 1st SCREENTEX India 2022 achieved its objective “said Dilip Bise, President of Screen Printers’ Association of India (SPAI).
“Visitors comings from all over India appreciated the display at the show and exhibitors felt they could discuss better with customers as the show received focused quality visitors” said Jignesh Lapasia, Secretary, of Screen Printers’ Association of India (SPAI).
“A focused trade show on screen printing was very much needed, given the rapid growth of technology and applications, besides knowing new applications visitors got many of their questions answered and decided about the way forward in their business” said Saleem Basha, Director, S.J. Exposition Pvt Ltd.
Exhibitors’ comments…
Fujifilm Sericol India, being an integral part of Fujifilm Ink Speciality Group (FISG) which consists of Fujifilm Speciality Ink Systems UK (FSIS), COUS, and Fujifilm Ink Colourants, has come a long road to achieving 25 years of being in the forefront of the Printing Industry in India. Fujiflim Sericol has advanced manufacturing facility at Pune, Maharashtra for Screen inks and chemicals, Digital inks, UV Flexo inks, and UV Offset Inks. With its State-OfThe-Art R&D and Innovation Centre, and Colour Management Laboratory along with a fully equipped Technical Training and Demo center for screen printing and wide format digital printers has been an important pillar for providing innovative solutions, that are synonymous with excellent printing ink quality and is known to develop competitive products regularly for the printing industry.
The textile printing market is a huge market in India. We are dealing with one percent of that and it is broken into so many segments: machine printing, non-machine printing, digital printing, and screen printing. So, we deal mainly with niche brands that are Nike, Puma, Zara, Gap, Marks&Spencer, Tommy Hilfiger, etc.
This exhibition is small, but it is constructive and effective, in my opinion. The customers came from Tirupur, Surat, Ahemdabad, Haridwar, Delhi, and Greater Noida. It was an ideal opportunity. I saw more stalls at the exhibition, but they didn’t have anything new; they had all the same products.
We are manufacturing water-based textile screen printing inks for the last 30 years, you name the category and we will have it. That is our sole motto. Our goal is to be one of the best performing and customer-focused printing ink companies in India. We have recently achieved the ZDHC level 3 certificate. That certificate shows high development sustainability any company can get. That is the biggest milestone that we have achieved in this year.
We have the entire category inks here; there are various categories like discharge based, pigment based, khadi based, and speciality inks like flop foil. There are more categories we will be launching this year. Basically, the demand is changing. People want a mixture of inks to be used on one print, like they want foil to be used together with khadi and discharge. Those category inks will be launched soon to fulfill our customers’ requirements.
The show was good, but they have to work on the marketing of the show to attract more visitors. Otherwise, show is ok for us. The main goal of the exhibition is to meet clients, receive new inquiries, answer client questions, and learn about what’s new in the industry.
The textile screen printing industry is growing. It is going to boom in the next 10 years. It is an ever-changing industry; demand keeps changing. It is the fastest growing industry, especially after the anti-China thing. Now people prefer India. Now people are planting, planning, and expanding things here.
We are one of the oldest groups of companies in the business of supplying printing consumables. We have all kind of screen printing product range includes Screen Mesh, Screen Inks, UV Inks, UV Varnishes, Screen Making Chemicals and Emulsions, Double Side Tapes, Label Stocks, Paper Gum Sheets, Adhesives, Squeezes, Squeeze Handles, Frames, Adhesive Sprays and Maintenance Products etc.
The show’s response is good, but I was my expecting more visitors from the smaller cities, which has not happened. Most of the local people and dealers are the visiting. This is the organizers’ first show. It is good, but hopefully they will do much better next time. Organization wise, everything is good, but only the crowd is missing.
The new machine that we recently launched is called UV Crystal. Put the label directly on the adhesive and stick it to any substract. It can be done on metal, plastic, paper, wood, anything. Textile printing industry is growing.
We are a manufacturer of dye sublimation paper and we have different kinds of GSM. We are the biggest dye sublimation manufacturer in India. We are exporting our products in countries like Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Thailand, Morocco, Japan, South Africa, Poland, Argentina, Ecuador, Paraguay, Bolivia, and many more. Regarding the paper quality, we use Indian-based local paper. We have everything in-house manufacturing, so we don’t do any imports from other countries. Everything is made in India. We have offices in the North, South, and West just to cover the transportation costs and to give customers the best quality products in short time.
We have recently launched a 45 GSM paper, which we are showing at the Screentex exhibition. Apart from 45 gsm, we are also displaying 55 gsm paper, 65 gsm and 95 gsm. We have received good response to these products and there are many inquiries.The show was quite good for us.
The textile printing industry is booming right now. This industry is on the verge of growth. Demand is increasing, and supply is never going to stop. It’s good for us that demand is increasing and supply is also increasing; it’s good for the entire printing industry.
Epta India it’s a joint venture company with Epta Inks Italy, it’s a part of EPTANOVA Group spread around 99 countries. The branch has already been working since 2011 to the production of Texilac Discharge LB, a water-based ink for textile printing, and it’s gradually been expanding its manufacturing to other products – waterbased inks and applications for screen printing – for the Indian textile market. And also, we have a future expansion plan for EPTA India but we have put it on hold right now. There is a plan but implementation will take some time. We are in textile applications and also have a wide range of industrial applications. Our main focus in this show is more on industrial applications. The response is very good, but the crowd is less but it’s a quality crowd. Organizers should do some promotion before the exhibition; everything else is good. The textile printing industry is seeing its ups and downs because of various other factors. It has to stabilise, and we believe that this may be continued until this year end.
We manufacture all types of machines. All types mean total screen printing units, from screen making to finishing. Our range of products includes electrical curing machines, manual chest printing machines, screen stretching units, single-bed manual printing machines, and a whole range of equipment that facilitates the printing process. If anyone needs a screening unit, all machines are available in our company.
We are launching our automatic new one with an 8 colour 10 pallet machine. It is fully 100 percent Indianmade machines. Now we are competitive with imported machine. It is a very big challenge for importing machines in India. We have equally good quality made in India machines. Also, we are displaying HD transfer Stricker machines, flat bed machines, cloth embossing machines, and regular fusing machines.
The show is very good. It is a very useful platform for the industry. The crowd is not much, but useful customers are coming. Organizers should bring more companies related to this industry so that the crowd can be bigger.
The textile printing industry is slow right now. Inquiries are happening but there is no business, business is slow, but we are hopeful that something good will happen in future. Our customers are our future, and we want us to be able to provide them with everything they need.
We are Ludhiana, Punjab based company. We are dealing with DTF Garment printing machines as well as UV DTF and UV Flatbed machines. We have the machinery for garments and any flat surface materials. We deal in PAN India.
In Screentex we are displaying the DTF, which is direct to flim. Direct to flim.
First of all, we print on the film (heat transfer coated film). Then, with the help of heat transfer, we will transfer the designs or stickers on the T-shirt or any kind of garment. Also, we have a new technology called UV DTF; it is a kind of roll-to-roll machine through which you can print directly on flat surface with the help of stickers only.
At Screentex, the response is fine. This time the visitors are in small numbers. But visitors are serious and are asking about the details of the latest technologies. And when talking about the textile printing industry, you can say the demand is growing day by day. In this industry, everybody some new introduces technologies are introduced and there is huge demand right now.
We deal in screen printing and digital printing solutions on fabric and garments. We are based in Ludhiana and serve all over India. We are the distributor of top MNC companies in India in our region. For screen printing, we provide binder, pigments, thickeners, fixer, PVA Emulsion, Plastisol Inks, Water-Based Inks, and Metallic Colors. We have Flock, Foil, Foil Adhesive, and many other products available for exclusive screen printing, as well as all of the digital setups such as plotters, cutters, UV DTF, DTF, DTG, and all type of machines for screen printing. At Screentex, we display UV DTF as well as a wide range of screen printing chemicals such as silicon, water-based inks, plastisol inks, PVA Emulsion, and along with all these things, we have also shown Brother’s DTG printer with full setup.
Screentex is a good show; this is our first time here, and it has been a good response for us. Whatever the organisers are doing, they are doing it well from their side. I wish them all the best in the future and also the future of this industry is looking very good now after covid.
We are into manufacturing textile printing inks. Under one roof we have all the products used for direct as well as heat transfer printing, like Plastisol inks, high density inks, water based inks, heat transfer inks, silicone emboss gel, colour changing inks, magic inks metallic inks and many more. We are based in Mumbai and have been in the manufacturing of textile printing inks and other specialised products for the textile printing industry for a long time.
Screentex we have come to display all the products and new technologies for screen printing industry. The show is very good; it is a very well organised show. I must appreciate the organisers for that; the footfall is there; it’s all concerned with our industry; there is good enquires. This is a very good show for the industry. Hopefully, at the next event, we get to see more technology and more new people coming into the show.
We have come up with many new products in water-based technologies. We have those threading effects which are going in the youth garment. If you see the denim tone effect going, people do it only by blade or by lazer cutting. We have developed water-based inks, so if you print and heat, it will only damage cotton thread and wash away.
Photokina chemicals is a leading manufacturer/distributor for a wide range of screen making auxiliaries covering pre and post press chemicals, emulsions, accessories, polyurethane squeegees, screen printing fabrics etc. PCPL is representing some of the world leaders in this field. Established in 1997, Today Photokina is considered as a pioneer and benchmark in quality and service. The company has a nationwide network of 450 dealers and 125 OEM companies. It is our forte to provide premium quality products and complementing services to ensure a rich experience in satisfying all screen printing needs. The vision of Photokina is to become a leader at a global platform with its newly developed Screen products, chemicals and emulsion with the support of its state of the art R&D department, which is accredited by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Govt of India.
In screentex, we are displaying different kinds of mesh, which are imported from Italy, and photo emulsions, films, and various other products that belong to the screen printing industry. The show response is very good. This is the first show of Screentex and we are very happy to have had a good response from the customers. Organizers should continue to do this type of work for the industry in the future, and we will continue to participate in upcoming exhibitions.
We are offering a wide range of products from offset spot colors, metallic shades, fluorescent colors, U.V inks, varnishes and high-end speciality inks. Our manufacturing units are in Navi Mumbai, Vasai, and Pune. We have put the manufacturing centre of Huber Group and under this manufacturing; we manufacture a variety of screen inks, off-set inks, UV off set inks, UV dry off-set inks, UV flexo inks, UV screen printing inks and coatings, mainly for special finishes and additional kind of printing jobs.
This exhibition mainly focuses on screen inks. So, in screen inks, we have a variety of inks like solvent-based inks for various applications like printing, packing, and signage. We have a pad printed ink for packing. We have a range of textile inks which include plastisol inks, eco-friendly PVC pre-pastisol inks and water-based inks. We have many kinds of products in screen inks.
The exhibition response is good. Quality customers are here with specific requirements. We have many new developed products on display in this exhibition. That is the major attraction point for the visitors. We are very happy with the exhibition. Organizers are doing their jobs. We are always in touch with the organisers and we are also associated with the Screen Printing Association of India. So, we are also the committee members, including the organizers.
The screen printing industry is a major segment in textiles. This industry accounts for 40-50 percent of the market for screen printing. This industry will grow at a rate of at least 10-15% per year. That’s why we are focusing on new products in the textile printing industry.
We are exporters and suppliers of a wide range of garment accessories products. We deal in garment laces, heat transfer vinyl film, mask elastic tape, mask nose wire, reflective tapes, stoppers, sportswear, and much more. Our products are known for their high efficiency, functionality, and wide application. Our company was set up in the year 2020 in Delhi, India. We have a variety of products and a global clientele all around the globe.
In this exhibition we display heat transfer vinyl, reflective tapes, cords, and stoppers for garment accessories. The response to the show is very good. The organisers have made good arrangements, but they will have to pay a little more attention to bring more visitors, as visitors are less in numbers. Everything else is fine. The textile printing industry is a growing industry. In this industry, some up and down is there right now but its future is bright. We can only hope that all is well going forward.
