Italian printing equipment manufacturer Omet has established a direct presence in India after forming Omet India Private Limited.
Based in Gurugram, Delhi NCR, Omet India is headed up by Pawandeep Sahni. Mr Sahni joins Omet India from Weldon Celloplast, the company’s former sales and service agent in India. Since 2010. Omet has been exclusively sold and serviced in India through Weldon Celloplast, who will continue to represent Omet in India along with other partners.
Omet considers India as one of its important strategic markets to focus on, considering India is on its way to become a five trillion US dollar economy by 2024-25. Additionally, the rise in middle class income, expansion of large scale organised retail, increasing presence of e-commerce companies, and increasing demand for packaged food in India, are all indicators of an assured double digit growth of packaging sector of the country.
Paolo Grasso, global sales head at Omet, said, ‘[We] already have an established brand in the Indian subcontinent with leading printers such as Huhtamaki PPL, Zircon, Renault, Pragati Pack, Any Graphics, Unique Photo Offset and many more respected printers as customers.
‘With the opening of Omet India, we look forward to increasing our ever-growing list of customers and also provide highly customised technical solutions to printers, as Omet is a global leader in providing such solutions.’
Omet sales and marketing director Marco Calcagni said, ‘A closer relationship with the industry and our customers will help Omet to develop innovative projects as well as improve business processes for our customers hence continuing our philosophy of ‘Innovation with Passion’, globally.
‘In the coming years, we expect Omet India to become yet another centre of excellence for Omet, in addition to our subsidiaries in the US, China and Spain.’
