Established in 1950 as a paper trading company called Sharda Trading Co, which later emerged to SBM Industries & a subsidiary SBM Print Media
, the company has recently gone for concentric diversification by launching a specialized warehousing and logistic facility within the same area near its printing operations are located. This facility will be focused to provide storage and logistic services to publishers or book distributors.
The unit is also equipped to refurbish books or unsold stocks. The company has also dared to do massive expansion during the ongoing Covid period while moving to a newly-developed space of 3-lakh sqf in Rai Industrial Area in Haryana. The company is originally known for its gigantic infrastructure involved in print services like book printing, diaries and calendar manufacturing, and other related activities. Sanjay Gupta, a founding and experienced member of SBM group, said, “We have expanded the area and machinery to meet the increasing demand for print production in both domestic and export markets.” The dynamic and spirited CEO, Saurabh Gupta, added, “We are ready to offer storage/warehouse services integrated with world-class WMS (warehousing management system), especially developed to sort all existing obstacles of distribution businesses or services, mainly in the book industry.
The company has established two new units in Rai Industrial Area, on the Delhi-Chandigarh highway adjoining Delhi border near the biggest transport hub, Sanjay Gandhi Transport Nagar. The total area of both the plants is approximately 4-lakh sqft and the individual area of the plants is 1.5 and 2.5-lakh sqft for warehouse and print division respectively..
SBM Industries, the parent company of SBM Print Media, owns stationery brands like Global, Smart, Easymate, and others, widely distributed in India through its channel partners located in all the major cities. These names are well-known for their wide range in writable instruments and promotional products like diaries, notebooks, calendars, registers, student exercise books, and others.
The company has a battery of Heidelberg pre-owned printing presses in the current 250,000-sqft constructed area. The binding unit is equipped with three automatic Kolbus case-making machines with round corner integration; automatic Kolbus casing inline BF 40; more than ten sewing machines; two Aster polygraph automatic sewing machines; two automatic Muller Martini six stations flow lines; seven four-fold Stahl folding machines; fully automatic Polar cutting machines, and others.
