GURURAJ BALLARWAD

General Manager, Signode India Ltd.

Started Screen Printing in Begaum in 1979 "Yarbal Screens" graduated to Offset in the year 1985, "Yarbal Offset Printers" with PO 25 Single Color Machine. In the initial stage of his career worked as assistant to operator also. Somehow succeeded in keeping the unit alive. In the year 1994 collaborated with Mr Shahul Hameed & shifted to Bangalore. They both started Offset Printing with a single color Aurelia Machine doing only 4 color jobs.

As PrePress was on decline thought of diversifying & with 5 other partners of Rainbow Color Scanning thought of label manufacturing using Flexo technology. Started Wintek Flexo Prints in 1996, 2 years struggled to get orders as well raw material, toolings etc., Flexo narrow web was new in India, some how we held it on to that & by 1998 we could do little & started getting orders there was no looking back then onwards went on buying 1st 8 Colour Gallus with all the options available in 2002, added 4 more Gallus machines within a span of 8 years. From day one we started doing Flexo plates in house. Mostly doing Personal care labels. "I take pride in telling that we were the trend setters for the combination Label production" Quality was our strength. Saw the margins going down from 2010 thought of selling the firm & we found ITW & in 2012 sold the company, since then till date continued to work for Wintek.

I give the entire credit to Mr Shahul Hameed & later All partners children & our partners - suppliers, without their support we could have done nothing.