Mahlo at PLASTINDIA 2026

According to Prashant Pardeshi, Mahlo’s sales partner in India, plastics manufacturers are currently concentrating strongly on greater product consistency and the reduction of material waste — a challenge intensified by rising raw material costs. At the same time, there is a growing demand for automation and inline monitoring to stabilize production processes and increase throughput without compromising quality.

“These topics come up repeatedly in discussions with customers,” says Pardeshi. “Manufacturers want to run faster and more efficiently, but quality must remain stable across the entire production run.” 

At PLASTINDIA, many conversations therefore will revolve around variability in product quality, often caused by manual measurement methods and delayed feedback from offline inspections, the expert is sure of. Maintaining uniform thickness across materials, achieving higher accuracy, and accessing real-time production data are among the most common challenges raised by visitors.

“Plastics producers are looking for reliable and easy-to-maintain gauging systems that perform consistently in high-volume environments and meet increasing customer expectations both in terms of technology and cost efficiency.”

Online quality measurement plays a crucial role in addressing these challenges. Systems like Mahlo’s Quality Measurement System Qualiscan QMS provide immediate feedback, allowing deviations to be corrected instantly. This helps reduce scrap and rework, lowers the cost of poor quality, and ensures consistent product properties over long production runs.

Beyond quality assurance, inline measurement also supports data-driven production, process transparency and traceability — key factors in modern plastics manufacturing.

Visitors to PLASTINDIA are invited to meet Prashant Pardeshi on site, together with Thomas Höpfl, Head of Sales at Mahlo, to discuss applications, market requirements and solutions for online quality measurement in plastics production.