Rajasthan’s leading commercial printer, Bhandari Offset has opted for Ricoh Pro C7200x 5th color station digital production press from Monotech Systems. Adoption of the new and versatile Ricoh digital press has opened an exciting range of creative possibilities, enhancing the value of prints using ‘White Ink’ for them. 

Bhandari Offset has been a reputed…

The South Korean Hankyung Media Group, which prints The Korea Economic Daily, is investing in a comprehensive newspaper printing project with manroland Goss. The long-established media company opted for high-quality, fastest speed and state-of-the-art automation. The two highly automated Colorman e:line presses to be installed in its newly built 3,700 square meter printing plant in…

Mespack, an international manufacturer of flexible packaging machinery, offering horizontal and vertical form-fill-seal equipment to produce sachets, stick packs, stand-up pouches, or other film-based packaging, will showcase its latest packaging developments that have been co-created with key industry partners such as Amcor, BBC Cellpack, Dow, Hoffer, Menshen, Mondi, and Uflex at…

Pamex2023, the global business platform for the print, label, converting and corrugation industry, is highly awaited not only by the suppliers and exhibitors but also by the buyers and visitors.

The show, scheduled to take place from 27-30 March 2023 at Bombay Exhibition Centre, Mumbai, has already surpassed the total booked area of the last edition. By the end of October, more than 270…

The 2022 edition of the Asia Coat + Ink show – a global trade event focusing on varnishes, inks, adhesives, coatings, and decorative materials – will be held from 17-19 November at the Bombay Exhibition Centre in Mumbai. 

Leading Indian and global manufacturers and suppliers in the field of inks, adhesives, coatings, varnishes, among others, will take part in the show being organized by the…

After wrapping up a very successful maiden participation at K 2022 in Germany in October, Ahmedabad-based Acme Rolltech marked its presence at the Labelexpo India 2022 held in Greater Noida. The company promoted its latest engraving technology, ACE, and talked about other new solutions such as high-density anilox rolls.

“We recently launched our new engraving technology called ACE. It features new engraving patterns that help label printers minimize issues such as ink spitting,…

Konica Minolta continues to be the leader in the Indian digital production press market. We recently had an opportunity to ask the company for an update on its operations in India. We asked several questions by way of an update on the recovery of print and digital print segments in the overall economy.

Indian Printer and Publisher – How many digital presses do you expect the Indian…

Monotech Systems, a manufacturer and solutions provider for the printing and packaging industry, sold a ColorAqua Hybrid to Wonderpac within the first four hours of the inauguration of the Labelexpo exhibition at Greater Noida on 10 November 2022. 

When Trilok Mittal and Minakshi Mittal of Wonderpac saw the machine, they immediately knew that they had found the digital production press that…

The Noida-based Zircon Technologies, a manufacturer of self-adhesive labels, has invested in the latest generation of Esko CDI Spark 4260 as well as the XPS 4260 – a deal that was struck at the Labelexpo show.

Sanjeev Sondhi, managing director of Zircon Technologies said, “For us, this is a new era because Zircon is…

So, October. Just to sum up where we in Britain are now – a long time ago, back in July, Boris Johnson was prime minister and his MPs voted that they had lots of confidence in him. But then most of his ministers demonstrated that confidence by resigning en masse. Johnson resigned and then spent much of August abroad on holiday while still being paid to be prime minister. In September, a tiny and very unrepresentative electorate decided that Liz Truss’ economic lunacy was the best plan for…

Fiber-based packaging provider Graphic Packaging International (Graphic Packaging) has announced it will reveal its latest pack serialization solution at this year’s CPHI Frankfurt event. 

The announcement comes as lawmakers around the world introduce traceability legislation to clamp down on counterfeit healthcare products and improve patient safety. The World Health Organization…

Correspondent Priyanka Tanwar interacted with journalist-author Sudeep Chakravarti at the Jaipur Literature Festival 2022 on his transition from journalism to writing books, the significance of a book cover design, inspiration, depiction of history in school textbooks, and more. Here are some edited excerpts from the interview: 

Indian Printer and Publisher (IPP) – You have been an…

The global outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic warranted a growing inclination toward personal hygiene and well-being. Education, uplifting incomes, increasing customer awareness about menstrual hygiene and personal care products such as sanitary napkins, tampons, baby diapers, and adult diapers, and the slow, long-term rise in the population of working women and better availability of low-cost products fueled the demand in the sanitary napkin market.

According to the latest data by…

The Bengaluru-based Valco Melton India, a part of the US-based Valco Melton – which manufactures dispensing machinery and quality assurance systems for adhesives – demonstrated its camera-based gluing and inspection as well as hot melt systems at the recently concluded IndiaCorr…

Digital printing, more sustainable processes, automation, and added  value solutions will be the primary pillars on which Comexiactivity is focused at the 2022 K trade fair; the event will be held from the 19th to 26th of October at the Messe in Düsseldorf (Germany).  From Hall 4, Stand B31, Comexi will publicly present the new Digiflex. This machine allows the  company to currently…

Meteor Inkjet has taken an interesting approach to the worldwide shortage of computer chips by developing a new electronics platform that’s less reliant on the specialised chips it was using.

Meteorhas suffered from the same problems that most other printer manufacturers have had since its printer controller cards – or PCC – that are used to drive various printheads all use an…

Mumbai-based form fill seal machine manufacturer Wraptech Machines displayed some of its newly developed solutions at the recently concluded PackEx 2022 that was held in Mumbai. Along with its standard bagging machines, the company demonstrated its newly developed products – a bottle filling machine and a sachet filling machine. 

“We have showcased our…

Global climate change, resource scarcity and high energy prices are sending a clear message – sustainable action is not only a question of social responsibility, but also a highly relevant economic factor. Accordingly, Koenig & Bauer is placing a scalable digital tool in the hands of its worldwide customers to help them save energy and thereby reduce costs in future – an optimized…

Monotech Systems, a manufacturer of inkjet products and solutions for the printing and packaging industry, has appointed Priyanka Rathi as deputy general manager, marketing and communications for its brand Jetsci Global. 

With a background in business development, media and marketing, Rathi will coordinate Jetsci’s day-to-day marketing activities to help raise the profile of Jetsci…

Fachpack, held every one or two years at Nuremberg, Germany, has been the packaging industry’s first larger gathering in Europe after the pandemic. Last year September it brought together some 800 exhibitors and 24,000 trade visitors, as compared to the 1640 exhibitors and 44,000 visitors two years earlier, and this year, September 26-28, it has been present again with 1154 exhibitors and 32,000…