Smart technologies, reducing carbon footprints, and innovations were the key focus areas of The Confederation of Indian Industry's (CII) Packaging Summit held on 19 January 2023 in New Delhi.

The 4th edition of the summit held at Holiday Inn also deliberated on the driving changes that multiply the growth of the Indian packaging segments.

Divided into three sessions that…

Chiripal Poly Films, one of India’s leading packaging film manufacturers headquartered in Gujarat, has formally commissioned its new state-of-the-art factory, which is part of its Rs 1,000-crore mega investment drive, in Hyderabad. 

The Hyderabad plant, spread across 35 acres, was inaugurated by Telangana’s minister of education Sabitha Indra Reddy on 12 January 2023 in the presence of…

One of the leading book printers and exporters, ReplikaPress has added another digital press to its battery of digital presses that it has built up in the past 15 years in addition to its massive offset printing and binding capacity that extends across its three plants in Kundli in the New Delhi NCR. The newest Canon digital machines to be added at Replika are the ImagePress C10010 VP color…

Bengaluru-headquartered VeePee Graphic – which provides an array of solutions for the flexo and corrugated packaging industry – showcased three new products at LabelExpo 2022, held from 10 – 13 November at the India Expo Center in Greater Noida.

VeePee Graphic promoted its hybrid screening solution that can reproduce 350 lpi using conventional…

The year 2022 had ended with a new acquisition by Marchesini Group, which has taken over Rejves Machinery Srl, a company from Marmirolo (Mantua) that specializes in the construction of filling and capping machines for packaging cosmetic, pharmaceutical, chemical and food products. 

Rejves Machinery Srl now joins the team of the Pianoro (Bologna) multinational,…

Airnov Healthcare Packaging, a global provider in controlled atmosphere packaging, continues to enhance its offering to customers with additions to its portfolio.

Launched in July 2022, HAT-B is the company’s latest innovative vial, an active and ergonomic flip-top container designed to protect test strips, pharmaceuticals, and nutraceuticals from moisture. To meet a variety of needs,…

ColorJet, arguably India's largest manufacturer of textile printing machines with exports to 38 countries across the world, launched its Earth series machine at the ITME exhibition held at the India Expo Centre in Greater Noida from 8 – 13 December 2022. 

The Earth series from ColorJet – which was also awarded the best printing engineering company at the event – is a pigment-based…

Mespack, a global manufacturer of flexible packaging machinery, showcased pharma packaging solutions at CPHI & PMEC held at the Indian Expo Mart & Centre at Greater Noida, Delhi-NCR.

The Thane-based company offers horizontal as well as vertical form fill and seal equipment to produce sachets, stick packs, stand-up pouches, or other film-based packaging. The company also provides…

Asahi Photoproducts, a known name in flexographic photopolymer plate development, will take its sustainability message to Labelexpo Southeast Asia 2023, scheduled for 9 to 11 February 2023 at the BITEC, Bangkok, in Thailand.

Asahi Kasei will feature its AWP-DEW plates, which have achieved carbon neutral certification in Japan, the US, China, and Europe, at its Stand C60.

“We are…

Seven UPMpackaging papers are now proven to be industrially compostable, marking another step on UPM Specialty Papers’ sustainability journey.

UPM Specialty Papers’ packaging materials are designed to be recycled into new paper products. In a perfect world, all paper would be recycled; however, when recycling is not an option, compostability of the packaging…

Mumbai-based Hi-Tech Systems demonstrated digital short-run label and stand-up pouch printing solutions at the recently concluded Pack Mach Asia expo that was held in Mumbai from 7-9 December at the Bombay Exhibition Centre.  

The company demonstrated OKI Pro1050 roll to roll table top label printers for brands in industries such as coffee, juices, soft drinks, among others.…

Ravi Shroff, managing director of Nutech, says that especially since the adoption of the ‘Zero Covid Policy’ in China, there has been some sort of a disconnect in global supply chains. Often, China goes into sudden lockdowns, which are inconvenient and disruptive to customers who rely on its exports. These include global book publishers who rely on China’s competitive book printing. And due to the…

Ghaziabad-based Ravindra Electrostat recently installed a Konika Minolta AccurioPressC12000 printer. The press in addition to two AccurioPress C6085 that the commercial printer installed in 2018 and 2019 to boost their production.

Established in 1989, Ravindra Electrostat was initially a single photostat shop run by their father. The enterprise expanded to three shops in Nayug market,…

Valco Melton showcased multiple solutions, including its all electric EcoStitch system and piston pump hot melt system with auto feeder, at the Pack Mach Asia Expo held in Mumbai from 7-9 December.

EcoStitch series melters are adhesive melters and include ethernet IP integration, digital pressure control, adhesive usage data available on screen, and full OEM integration with all digital-based…

Ashok Chaturvedi, chairman and managing director of UFlexa global packaging company quoted on the Indian stock exchanges recently shared his insights for building circularity in multi-layered plastics packaging at the Alliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW) board meeting. The meeting was held on 30 November 2022 at the New York Stock Exchange in the United States. UFlex is India’s largest…

Greater Noida-based shrink sleeve and label specialist Tauruspromoted its solutions at the Drink Technology India 2022 show held in Mumbai from 7-9 December – explaining how it can help brand owners reduce their inventory costs by providing optimal printing technologies.

“We told visitors how we can use the optimal printing technology at our disposal to provide them with the…

DuPont Artistri digital Inks is exhibiting a full portfolio of digital printing solutions at the India ITME 2022 show, which will be held from 8-13 December at the India Expo Center Greater Noida. The company will be present at stand no. H7P1, Hall 7.

DuPont is a manufacturer and an innovator in inkjet pigment inks for over 30 years, from home and office to digital textile and…

With SuperCoco and SuperGreen Happy Brush has expanded its range of vegan toothpaste by two more. The tube (diameter 35) and the tube shoulder is one of the first commercial laminate tubes at EPL, manufactured from post-consumer recycled plastics (PCR). 

The use of PCR has kept the use of virgin materials to a minimum, enabling Happy Brush to continue to pursue its…

First the grim part – at least on the face of it. Government data released on 30 November 2022 shows that the Indian economy grew by 6.3% in the July-September quarter of 2022. This is way down from a 13.5% growth in the previous quarter of April-June. Last year, in the same July-September quarter, the GDP growth rate was 8.4%.

The government, however, paints a brighter picture. Chief economic adviser V Anantha Nageswaran told reporters that the Indian economy’s performance in the…

The Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) has announced its line-up of speakers for its 2023 edition comprising some of the world’s best thinkers and writers.

The festival is all set to run from 19 - 23 January 2023. The literary extravaganza will feature an esteemed host of speakers, writers, and humanitarians to celebrate the best of fiction, non-fiction, food, history, current affairs and…