09.13.18
Bangkok, Thailand-based Trisan Printing is targeting a turnover of $9 million after completing an expansion at its facility with a new Nilpeter flexo press in October 2017.
“We grew at 12% in 2017-18 fiscal. However, prior to that, we were growing at more than 20% year-on-year because business started from a small base,” Trisan’s Managing Director Piyapong Wongvorakul said.
Trisan Printing started operation in 2000 with one flatbed letterpress from Korea that produced barcode and text printed nutrition labels for local food companies for three years, before it decided to invest in Taiyo, a Japanese rotary press, in 2003 for printing color labels.
“It was around 2003-04 when brand owners in Thailand started using label applicators to apply labels on containers,” said Wongvorakul. “So, we had to invest in a roll-to-roll web press to cater to the changing requirements of the market. Moreover, letterpress ran efficiently for short-run jobs but we could print jobs up to 20,000 linear meters using the Taiyo.”
Though the company sold the intermittent rotary press in 2017, it still runs a flatbed letterpress.
Trisan Printing decided to invest in flexo technology with an Omet press in 2011.
“We realized that the quality on a flexo press was great and there was less setup time, compared to letterpress, also because it is a more automated machine. Though the initial cost was high, it saved us a lot of time and money,” said Wongvorakul.
The company had also shifted to its new factory in 2011, spread across an area of 2,200-square-meters in Sinsakhon Industrial Estate on the outskirts of Bangkok. Trisan Printing invested in its second flexo press in 2012, this time a Nilpeter, followed by the second Nilpeter last year.
With four machines running on the production floor, the company now prints pressure-sensitive, in-mold, wet-glue and booklet labels, mainly for the Thai market.
Trisan has also started producing film without adhesive, which can be used in the electronic labels sector.
“It is a high growth potential segment for export and we need to diversify from printing only pressure sensitive labels to be able to grow,” said Wongvorakul.
“We grew at 12% in 2017-18 fiscal. However, prior to that, we were growing at more than 20% year-on-year because business started from a small base,” Trisan’s Managing Director Piyapong Wongvorakul said.
Trisan Printing started operation in 2000 with one flatbed letterpress from Korea that produced barcode and text printed nutrition labels for local food companies for three years, before it decided to invest in Taiyo, a Japanese rotary press, in 2003 for printing color labels.
“It was around 2003-04 when brand owners in Thailand started using label applicators to apply labels on containers,” said Wongvorakul. “So, we had to invest in a roll-to-roll web press to cater to the changing requirements of the market. Moreover, letterpress ran efficiently for short-run jobs but we could print jobs up to 20,000 linear meters using the Taiyo.”
Though the company sold the intermittent rotary press in 2017, it still runs a flatbed letterpress.
Trisan Printing decided to invest in flexo technology with an Omet press in 2011.
“We realized that the quality on a flexo press was great and there was less setup time, compared to letterpress, also because it is a more automated machine. Though the initial cost was high, it saved us a lot of time and money,” said Wongvorakul.
The company had also shifted to its new factory in 2011, spread across an area of 2,200-square-meters in Sinsakhon Industrial Estate on the outskirts of Bangkok. Trisan Printing invested in its second flexo press in 2012, this time a Nilpeter, followed by the second Nilpeter last year.
With four machines running on the production floor, the company now prints pressure-sensitive, in-mold, wet-glue and booklet labels, mainly for the Thai market.
Trisan has also started producing film without adhesive, which can be used in the electronic labels sector.
“It is a high growth potential segment for export and we need to diversify from printing only pressure sensitive labels to be able to grow,” said Wongvorakul.