Amcor’s Gent production facility is a giant, housing gravure printing in up to nine colors, digital printing, solvent and water-based coating, lamination, coextrusion, both cast and film up to nine layers, and Vision Systems for conversion and extrusion. It all began back in 1925 with the production of cellophane, which was the first plastic material used for food packaging. …

HP India Sales Private Limited signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Atal Incubation Centre of Coffee Board on 22 May 2024 to foster innovation and growth among startups. This strategic partnership aims to provide startups with digital printing and packaging solutions, equipping them with the tools and knowledge needed to thrive in a competitive market.

The Atal Incubation Centre of Coffee Board (AIC CCRI CED) Bangalore is a startup incubation center started in…

The third edition of Respackat Mumbai’s Lalit Hotel on 13 and 14 June delved into the themes of innovative materials and sustainable technologies. Organized by the FIPS and supported by the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA), the two-day conference was attended by stakeholders from across the packaging value chain, featuring three dozen speakers…

Sonoco Consumer Products Europehas announced that it, in partnership with Kellanova, has received the Gold Award for snacks and confectionery at the Environmental Packaging Awards, hosted by Packaging News. The annual event, which took place in London earlier this week, celebrates the industry’s most innovative and sustainable packaging.

The winning entry, developed in…

IBG (Innovative Beauty Group), a global beautysolutions provider, has been acquired by Fremman Capital, a prominent European private equity firm. The strategic acquisition begins a new chapter for IBG, as the company departs from its previous shareholder, Albéa Group. The transaction also marks a major milestone in the future development of IBG, enabling the company to…

Vinsak Group, a manufacturer and supplier of printing and packaging machines, has completed the acquisition of Rotatek, an European printing machinery manufacturer for labels, packaging, folding cartons, security printing, commercial printing, and pharmaceutical inserts headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.

The Vinsak group has been associated with Rotatek from…

Epsonshowed off a concept label press on a corner of its stand at drupa. The new machine is essentially a much-improved version of its SurePress L4000 series, which all use an aqueous inkset, with both better image quality and higher productivity.

The press uses a new version of Epson’s water-based resin ink technology. As with the existing machines, the Surepress Concept uses a…

KATZ, a KoehlerGroup company, has developed a natural material that can be used as a basis for food packaging in the form of its KATZ food board products. KATZ food board is made out of wood pulp board, a sustainable raw material that has left its mark on the company’s range of products.

KATZ food board is a particularly high-volume material that is based on wood pulp. The product can…

EFIhas used Drupa to show off a brand new printing and converting line, the Packsize X5 Nozomi, which can take in blank corrugated substrates, print and then form a complete box, all in one line for an integrated on-demand box printing solution.

Packsize, which makes automated packaging packaging solutions, has developed the X-series of automated box converting machines. So it…

AB Polypacks, a West Bengal-headquartered one-stop shop for a wide range of flexible packaging solutions, recently added a 9-color Solomark ELS 6450 rotogravure press from Pelican Rotoflex to its portfolio. The company had earlier added a turret slitter from Pelican.

With its manufacturing facility spread over 1.5 lakh square feet of land in Howrah near Kolkata, the…

Process control specialist Promtek has agreed a formal partnershipwith industrial automation specialist Logicon Technosolutions. Consistently ranking in the top 100 global system integrator giants, Logicon provides digital manufacturing solutions to some of the world’s leading plant owners and is one of Rockwell Automation’s platinum system integrators.

The strategic…

Lombardi, a manufacturer of modular in-line flexographic printing machines, and Vinsak have unveiled the inaugural installation of Lombardi's 880mm inline Invicta I2 press at Prakash Printers and Coaters in Ahmedabad — their longstanding partner in the Indian market. This is the first installation of an in-line press of this web width by any manufacturer in India…

Heidelbergsays it is well prepared for the upcoming drupa trade fair from 28 May to 7 June. This is shown by the preliminary figures for the past financial year 2023-2024, with which the company has achieved its own forecast. Despite challenging economic and geopolitical conditions as well as cost pressure on materials, energy and personnel, Heidelberg succeeded in keeping sales stable…

An one-stop labelling solutions provider, Vapi-based Leo Flexipack has enhanced its digital finishing capabilities with the installation of a RhyguanPLUS 330. This new highly modular Rhyguan digital finishing machine at Leo Flexipack’s facility has been supplied and installed by Flexo Image Graphics, a distributor & service provider of flexo presses & associated equipment in the…

Henkel Adhesives Technologies India (Henkel India) has set up an Astronomy Laboratory and Observatory called Aryabhatta Astronomy Lab in RF Naik Vidyalaya & Junior College, Koparkhairane, in collaboration with Global Mission Astronomy, India.

The Astronomy Laboratory and Observatory, set up under Henkel India’s CSR plan for FY 2024-25, was inaugurated by Bulent Pehlivan -…

In a press release dated 10 May 2024, Avery Dennison, a global materials science, digital identification solutions company, perhaps best and simply known as a pressure-sensitive label stock supplier, announced the launch of AD InsightX in Pune. InsightX can be variously described, but AD describes it as its ideation, innovation and imagination studio at the Ranjangaon plant just outside of Pune in Maharashtra in Western India.

InsightX was formally launched on 9 May in Pune, with a…

In a freewheeling interview with Packaging South Asia’s Nilutpal Thakur at Toppan Speciality Films' Chandigarh office, the CEO & whole-time director speaks about their flagship GL-BOPP films, the packaging industry, and how the company is doing its bit to develop sustainable alternatives in packaging

Toppan Speciality Films (TSF), a 100% subsidiary of the…

On April 29, 2024, Bernd Eikens was appointed to the supervisory board of Koehler Holding SE & Co. KG as a full member. He is succeeding Fritz Holzhey, whose expertise and experience contributed to the development of the Koehler Group in his 11 years as a supervisory board member.

Fritz Holzhey was elected as a full member of the board in June 2013 and helped shape the development of…

Komori India installed 16 machines of various configurations in and around the Delhi-NCR region in FY 23-24. The Japanese machine manufacturer installed six GL 437 presses – one at Impressions Printing & Packaging (a subsidiary of Amar Ujala) in May 2023; one at Sterling Graphics in Manesar in May 2023; one at Kumar Offset in Delhi in August 2023; one at Advantage Offset in…

Scodix, a provider of digital embellishment solutions, is gearing for a drupa launch of two new presses  – the Scodix Ultra 2500 SHD and the Scodix Ultra 6500 SHD. In addition to Scodix SHD (Smart High Definition) technology, the two new presses also see the debut of Scodix MLE (Multi-layer Enhancement) and Scodix AI, an automated embellishment creator tool.

The Scodix MLE opens a…