HarperCollins Publishers India — the Gurgaon-based publishing house emerged the winner in the Publisher of the Year category of Publishing Next Industry Awards 2021. The eighth edition of the annual Awards were announced on Sunday, 27 March 2021. The Awards were presented in 10 categories as mentioned below.

HarperCollins Publishers India was adjudged Publisher of the Year 2021, for "refusing to rest on its past laurels, and continue to do what publishers must - engage new authors,…

'The Power of Color' is the slogan with which Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) has chosen to mark the start of its new financial year as it introduces extensive additions for its color measurement and control systems and for the prinect color workflow. The move is a response to the growing demands for efficient and dependable quality control in commercial, packaging,…

Altopack, a manufacturer of grain-based food packaging machines, will be attending the 2022 edition of Ipack-Ima to present its state-of-the-art packaging solutions in box cartoning and casepacking. The trade show in Milan will also be an opportunity to present the world preview of ‘Cyborg Line’, a company that will cooperate with Altopack and Gammapack to consolidate their presence in their reference markets. This company is a high-tech…

The Front of Package’s target is to offer basic nutrition information in a better accessible place instead of the side and back of the packages. Besides, regulation of junk foods has become necessary, and for this, FSSAIis planning to introduce a ‘front of package label’.

Very soon, a packet of biscuits or chips that you purchase will come with a warning label…

FujifilmImaging Colorants, an experienced inkjet ink technology partner to equipment manufacturers, integrators and ink formulators, today announced that it will invest US$ 28 million to add a new facility in New Castle, Delaware for the production of aqueous inkjet dispersions. The investment will double Fujifilm’s production capacity of pigment…

In his opening remarks at a panel discussion of a virtual event, ‘The State of Indian Media’ organized by the Dravidian Professional Forum on 24 March 2022, the Tamil Nadu finance minister Palanivel Thiaga Rajan said, “At the national level, the media is dominated by the ruling party and we have seen the degradation all the way from alleged speaking truth to power, to keeping quiet, to becoming acquiescent tools, to becoming blatant tools of misinformation and propagation of false…

As the economy approaches real growth with unevenness and shortages a given, we are looking forward to the PrintPack India exhibition in Greater Noida. We are again appointed to produce the Show Daily on all five days of the show from 26 to 30 May 2022. It’s been a long time and we expect the show to be a mutual celebration of both the exhibitors and the visitors of the tough…

TCPL Packaging’s third-quarter (October to December) results for FY 2021-22 show an increase in standalone net sales to Rs 269.21 crore. This represents an increase of 13.33% over the Q3 figures of  FY 2020021 which had net sales of Rs 237.63 crore. 

The net profit for Q3 FY 2021-22 is reported at Rs 14.05 core, an increase of 41.22% from Rs 9.95 crore in Q3 of the previous financial year 2020-21.…

A collaboration between Zubaan, the noted feminist publishing house based in New Delhi, and the Kolkata-based Prabha Khaitan Foundation has launched a translation project to unlock some of the publisher’s content into several Indian languages simultaneously. The project called the Zubaan-Prabha Khaitan Foundation Translation Series brings financial support for translating numerous Zubaan…

Leveraging proven flexo experience and recent innovative inkjet developments, Bobstis enhancing its All-in-One, All-Inline portfolio with the new 'Digital Master' series. The Digital Master 340 and Digital Master 510 will change the way label production is set up. They provide a fully digitalized and automated production line,…

The International News Media Association (INMA) on 17 March 2022 announced the launch of a new digital subscription performance benchmarking service for news media companies following a successful six-month pilot.

INMA’s Subscription Benchmarking Service is designed as an international peer-to-peer exchange, promising an active benchmarking community and featuring data-rich…

Driven by the aim of attaining water sustainability and reducing consumption and pollution, the Chemicals production unit of UFlexsituated in Noida is now a Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) facility. ZLD is a strategic wastewater management system that ensures no industrial wastewater discharge into the environment, so UFlex has proactively adopted this technology to significantly reduce their…

Avery Dennison on 17 March 2022 announced it has acquired the linerless label technology developed by Catchpoint, a UK company based in Yorkshire, England.

The purchase covers Catchpoint's patents, brand, trade secrets and know-how. Arrangements have been made to ensure the continued support of the Catchpoint team. Under the agreement, Avery Dennison will honor Catchpoint’s…

Subscription to TOI+ gives you access to premium articles and an ad-lite experience for one year on the Times of India website, Android, and IOS apps. Radhika Shukla, head of subscription growth, strategy, and analytics, TOI+ and Newspoint, explained the subscription revenue and data-driven customer journey at TOI+ in detail during the Wan-Ifra Digital Media India 2022.

Shukla said…

On 8 March 2022, Wan-Ifra closed the opening day of its virtual digital summit with a panel discussion that included Mukund Padmanabhan, chairman of its Worlds Editor Forum for India WEF, Ritu Kapur, the co-founder of Quint Digital Media, and Srinivasan Balasubramanian, the managing director of the Vikatan Group.

The topic discussed in the recently happened Wan-Ifra India Digital…

In response to the cancellation of this year’s Labelexpo Europe and to maintain contact, showcase its latest innovations and inform its customers, Xeikon and a variety of its industry partners have announced a special edition of its ever-popular Xeikon Café to take place at the company’s headquarters in Antwerp, Belgium at the end of April. Entrance is free, and visitors will discover new…

The 15th edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) has moved to the Clarks Amer in Jaipur from 5 to 14 March 2022. In a press conference on 12 March, the third day of the on-ground event, festival directors William Dalrymple and Namita Gokhale, accompanied by author and socialite Shobhaa De, and Teamwork Arts managing director Sanjoy Roy along with Donna Campbell…

Rotoconhas been appointed as the exclusive EyeC distribution partner in South Africa for its range of innovative artwork and print inspection systems. EyeC joined Rotocon at Propak Africa held 8-11 March in Johannesburg came to meet the industry and showcased its ProofRunner Web in-line inspection system.

Founded in 2002 in Hamburg, Germany, EyeC is the market’s only supplier to ensure product…

Ozone is known as one of the strongest oxidizing agents available. Packaged water producers also like to take advantage of its effect and operating principle because ozone dissolved in water reliably removes bacteria and viruses and then swiftly decomposes without leaving any residues. That is precisely the reason why an ozoniser ideally supplements the…

The 15th edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF), is hybridly taking place at Clarks Amer, including an on-ground event from 10 to 14 March 2022. The new venue was chosen in accordance with the Rajasthan government’s latest Covid-19 norms and allows for appropriate social distancing measures in view of the pandemic situation. It is the first major literary festival being…