Print embellishment is difficult to explain. Even printers often grapple with the many print embellishment techniques and processes available. But now, brands, agencies, and graphic designers need to understand the value of print embellishments in the markets they serve. As a result, print trade shows, industry conferences, and user groups are reaching out to brands, agencies, and graphic designers, as well as the printers that serve them, offering the opportunity to see, touch, and even…

Vasai-based carton specialist Packeteer recently commissioned it's first ever brand new Bobstmachine, an Ambition 76 A1 folder gluer. The decade-old company is managed by the duo of Parag Ghelani and Chirag Bhalavat and operates from the Niddhi Complex in the Vasai suburb of north Mumbai. It prints and converts cartons and inserts primarily for the pharmaceutical industry.

“We…

The steady return of Manroland Sheetfed into the Indian packaging market in the last several years is bearing fruit as the company has considerably lifted its game in the past year. As the pandemic and the lockdowns ended, the company’s wholly-owned subsidiary in India, Manroland Sheetfed India became bolder and went beyond talking to its considerable installed footprint in the Indian…

Rotocontrolis returning to Labelexpo Americas with an inline hybrid solution featuring the Rotocontrol DT-340 digital label finishing machine with an integrated Domino N610i label press on Stand 331. Labelexpo Americas 2022 takes place in Chicago from 13-15 September.

“With the integration of flexo, diecutting, and digital inkjet printing, the Rotocontrol along with Domino hybrid solution is…

Delhi’s leading commercial printer Nikhil Offset has invested in a KodakAchieve 800 Thermal Platesetter that produces 18 plates in an hour of 1030 x 838 mm. The machine has been supplied and installed by Monotech Systems. 

“The majority of jobs we provide are for publishing and consuming approximately 1,500 – 2,000 plates a month. To fulfil the high demand, we opted for Kodak…

DataLeads, an India-based digital media company, revised and re-branded its existing health initiative Health Analytics Asia as HealthLeads. This is a multimedia health site with a niche focus on hard data, fact-checking, and health community engagement. The platform has been re-developed to cater to the fast-changing trends in the health sector and bring together the voices of doctors,…

From 14 to 16 September 2022, Syntegonwill display its varied food packaging portfolio at the PackEx India at Bombay Exhibition Center in Mumbai. It will be the first time since the beginning of the global pandemic that the company presents its versatile solutions for food processing and packaging at a trade show in India.

The SVI 4000 is capable of processing multiple standard bag styles, such as pillow bags, side gusseted bags…

XsysGermany has been rated in the top 10% of manufacturing facilities in the paints, varnishes and similar coatings, printing ink and mastics industry category, receiving a silver medal rating for its sustainability performance from EcoVadis. 

“This rating reflects the commendable achievements of the Xsys team and all the hard work that goes into our mission to bring brilliance to the…

Airnov Healthcare Packaging, a global leader in controlled atmosphere packaging, will be showcasing its large portfolio of solutions available to customers in India at the upcoming Innopack Pharma Confex-South, due to be held in the city of Hyderabad on 9-10 August. 

The event marks an extension of the already highly successful and influential Innopack series, which is now…

Innova Printing and Packaging is Bangalore-based leading mono and fluted carton manufacturer with over three decades of experience. Their facility is spread over 45,000 square feet with innovative solutions, process, and technology. Innova bolsters production with the addition of KodakVeriset T800 Platesetter in its production facility. 

The Kodak Veriset T800 Platesetter offers…

The ADAPTA series of capsule fillers from IMA Active is known for exceptional precision and flexibility in multi-product dosing. Thanks to the compact performance of its B&R automation platform, the new ADAPTA 50 offers all the advanced functionality of its larger siblings on a one-third smaller footprint.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away – that’s easy enough to remember. Unfortunately, reality is often much more complex. Multiple doses of different medications to be taken at…

With the participation of over 200 companies, Gartex Texprocess India is gearing up for a power-packed edition in New Delhi. The recently announced association with Fabexa will bring fabric manufacturers and suppliers from Gujarat on the show floor to deliver a solid push to the region’s textile and apparel sector.

Following the success of its first-ever Mumbai edition earlier this…

Founded in 1948, Pune-based Nichromeproduces form fill and seal equipment for milk packaged in flexible pouches. It later branched out to linear electronic weigh fillers for tea pouches and bags. 

The company produces multilane, tiny-sachet machines and vertical and horizontal form, fill and seal machines. The business now specializes in integrated…

“If you look at the converting industry's history, up till now it was dominated by rotogravure printing machines. Around a few thousand rotogravure printing machines are running in India, and at the same time around 100 CI Flexo presses are running in the country. But if you see the trend in Europe, it is more towards the surface printing and more towards the monomaterial packaging and nearly 25% could be with the CI Flexo presses. In India also, we would be following that trend in the…

WordPress VIP, the leading provider of enterprise WordPress, has added ppi Media, creator of the WordPress InDesign integration “tohoop,” to its prestigious Technology Partnership program. ppi Media joins a small group of enterprise technology companies serving WordPress VIP clients.

ppi Media`s solution “tohoop” seamlessly integrates WordPress VIP and InDesign, allowing customers to…

With a revenue of more than Rs 70 crore, AG Poly Packs is expanding its market share by offering a variety of bottles, caps & closures for cosmetics, food, and pharmaceutical packaging. Established in September 1997 for trading in rigid packaging, plastic bottles, caps & closures, it opened its first production unit in Ghaziabad in 2012. A second manufacturing plant opened there in…

In April, alongside the opening of schools and colleges, we had a sense that book printing and exports have recovered well. This recovery was gradual with signs that demand picked up in Q3 itself. Ultimately, the feedback from the organized commercial print businesses is that the financial year 2021-22 ending on 31 March was a good bounce back from the pandemic year 2020-21. 

Moreover, a significant number of the leading commercial printers have exceeded their FY 21-22 sales above the…

Udaipur-based COPL Print-O-Pack has seen solid growth in its monocarton business started a couple of years ago. The company prints, converts, and supplies monocartons to customers in the pharmaceutical, FMCG, food, ice cream, and electrical appliances segments. COPL Print-O-Pack is the packaging arm of Chaudhary Offset, a commercial printer for…

Archromarecently announced that the 5’760 color references of its Color Atlas library will be available in ASE file format for open access to the users of most design software for fashion, apparel, and textiles. With this, designers and stylists are given open access to the largest library of colors for cotton and polyester.

ASE or .ase (for Adobe Swatch Exchange)…

Patient adherence, injection prevention, heightened drug production, and self-administration are some of the primary drivers of the estimated 6.4% annual growth of the containers of a unit-dose, and it is expected to hit US$57.9 billion by the end of 2025, according to the new analysis of Freedonia Group.

The blister packaging for solid dose applications will lead the worldwide…