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Gohar Ejaz Group sweeps
New RSI® III rotary screen integration module offers

improved uptime, reliability and waste reduction
APTMA elections for 10th

consecutive year

Consecutively from 10 years now APTMA elections have been clean swept by Gohar Ejaz Group. Chairman
Election Commission conducted scrutiny of the nomination papers of the contesting candidates for the
members of the executive committee 2019-20.

Mr Rehman Naseem, Mr Danish Monnoo, Mr Kh Zahid Rasheed, Mr Shaiq Javed, Mr Hamid Zaman and Mr
Kamran Arshad were elected unopposed for the central executive committee members from Punjab.

The Election Commission declared Mr Adil Bashir as Chairman, Mr Abdul Rahim Nasir as Senior vice
SPGPrints’ new RSI® III
chairman, Mr Aamir Sh as Vice Chairman and Mr Kamran Arshad as Treasurer and nine members for the
Regional Managing Committee of Punjab region. The new APTMA leadership has taken charge in the Annual
General Meeting of the Association.
SPGPrints’ new RSI® III – the third generation of its rotary needing to change their position to view the screen at
screen printing integration module for label and packaging eye level, minimising risk of strain injury. Among other
While extending his heartiest congratulations to the newly elected team, Patron-in-Chief Gohar Ejaz has set a
presses – features time, safety and ergonomic innovations benefits, this facilitates easier monitoring controls and
minimum agenda of industry revival and export-led growth across the value chain for the new team through
for increased production efficiency. ink levels.
outreach to all sub-sectors for effective public advocacy.
Operator safety has been augmented with the The RSI III unit is fully compliant with the latest version
He has expressed the hope that the new APTMA leadership would secure long term policy enablers from the
introduction of guards to prevent contact with the of European Union RoHS (Restrictions of Hazardous
government to bring the industry back on its feet to start performing as per its potential by investing in new
rotating screen, squeegee pipe and gear wheels, Substances) regulations which stipulate that all
capacities to produce an exportable surplus.
significantly reducing the risk of injury. electronic machine components and manufacturing
processes must be free of materials hazardous to
He said a number of issues are emanating from the prevailing post-budget uncertainty in the industry. The
A new web-cleaning scraper, positioned on a guiding health and the environment.
sales tax refund of the exporters for the month of July has become due after filing of the return and depositing
roller immediately after the nip between the screen
of the required tax. He said the government had announced the payment of 90 per cent refund within 14 days
and substrate, automatically removes undesired ink Introduced in 1994, and with over 1000 installations
of its due date. The government should immediately pay the refund of all such exporters, he asserted.
splashes on the web that may have spilled from the worldwide, SPGPrints’ RSI module has enabled the
screen during stoppages or slow-rotation mode. seamless integration of rotary screen printing into
He has also urged the new leadership to take up the issue of availability of electricity and gas at a regionally
Operated only for the first one-and-a-half screen single-pass label converting lines, for creating a host
competitive rate, I.e., at $6.5 per MMBTU and 7.5 cents per kWh respectively for the next five years to all the
rotations at the start of the production run, the of value-adding sensual and functional features that
exporting sectors. It would enable the industrialists to take investment decisions only if the government issues
scraper ensures thorough drying of the substrate at enhance brand presentation or product identification.
a notification immediately.
all times. This minimises the risk of ink contaminating The RSI module compatible with SPGPrints’ pure
the rollers, thereby reducing the cleaning nickel reimageable RotaMesh® and reuasable
Patron-in-Chief APTMA Gohar Ejaz has expressed the hope that new leadership would work wholeheartedly
requirement. Its long-life plastic blade collects the RotaPlate® rotary screens are often used for creating
and exercise all their efforts for achieving economic growth, investment, exports, jobs and expansion in the
UV-curable ink in a pan attached to the scraper, tactile varnishes, metallic and glitter inks, opaque
industrial growth while working in tandem with the government.
which is easily removed for fast cleaning. inks, braille dots and optically variable inks for
A new colour interface display offers enhanced security applications. They offer easy robustness,
visibility with a wider angle of observation from all print stability and easy handling, for laying down thick
viewing angles. This means that operators can ink and varnish layers of max. 250µm thickness at
comfortably monitor and control the unit without web speeds of up to 150m/min (490fpm).
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