Control Print Ltd

Promoted by Basant Kabra and Anirudh Joshi, Control Print India Limited (CPIL) was incorporated on 14 January, 1991. The Company is a pioneer in the coding and marking solutions industry in India. Its products, include Continuous Ink Jet Printers, Drop on Demand Printers, Hot Roll Coders, Thermal Inkjet Printers, Thermal Transfer Over Printers, Lasers, and Consumables. Control Print is the only Indian integrated manufacturer that produces coding equipment and consumables to compete with global technology. It has over 300 sales and service field workers across nine branch offices in India and one branch in Sri Lanka, and operates on a highly integrated ERP system for exceptional operational excellence. With over three decades of experience, Control Print has evolved to understand the changing needs of the evolving country and its manufacturers. Apart from these, it manufactures non-contact type coding and marking machines based on drop-on-demand inkjet printing technology and contact-type versatile electropneumatic imprinting machines, in technical collaboration with Avery Dennis, US, a Fortune-500 company. CPIL has a manufacturing and and assembling facility for coding and marking machines at Andheri, Bombay, and has set up a laboratory-cum-demonstration unit in Marol Naka, Andheri. Its coding and marking machines are used in printing variable information like date of manufacture, batch number, maximum retail price, expiry date, etc, on packaged goods varying from consumer goods industries such as food, dairy and soft drinks to industrial products like cables, pharmaceuticals, fertilisers, etc. The company came out with an issue of equity shares at a premium of Rs 20 in Feb.'95 to part-finance its expansion-cum-diversification programme to assemble and manufacture additional coding and marking equipment and measuring and process control equipment, as also to set up additional sales and service centres. The company had entered into a joint venture with Markem Corporation, USA, to manufacture and market its products in India. Markem Corporation is a renowed coding and marking company having worlwide operations and is undisputed world leader in Hot Ink Roll Technology for coding equipments. The manufacturing plant at Nalagarh has commenced its Commercial Production of InkJet Printers, Large Character Printers, Thermal Transfer OverPrinters, and Consumables in 2007. The Company acquired all shares of M/s. Liberty Chemicals Pvt. Ltd. in April, 2011 and became its Wholly owned Subsidiary. It incorporated a wholly owned subsidiary i.e. Control Print BV in The Netherlands in 2023. The Company also incorporated wholly owned subsidiary Company i.e. Control Print Packaging Private Limited in India on 25 March 2023.