L – R: Quateel Ahmed, chief marketing officer of ACG Worldwide, and moderator of the Innopack conference in Gurgaon presenting a momento to Gyan Talwar of Hindustan Coca Cola Beverages
Asia Coat and Ink Show 2015ABC Chemicals a single source for flexiblesAt the Asia Coat and Ink Show 2015 held in Mumbai from 2 to 4 March 2015, the trading firm ABC Chemicals promoted its wide array pigments, resins, resin raw materials, packaging raw materials, additives, plasticizers and surfactants. Apart from India, the company has offices in China, USA, Egypt, Thailand and UAE.ABC Chemicals’ stand at Asia Coats and Ink 2015. Photo PSA“The company represents the best suppliers, carefully selected for quality, consistency, financial stability and environmental impact of their operations,” said Azmat Khan, business manager at ABC Chemicals. The company has exclusive sales agreements with principals such as the Flint Group, Hanwha and AkzoNoble located in India, Thailand, Korea, UK, Belgium, Germany and China.
For the flexible packaging industry, the company offers all kinds of raw material under one roof. “We provide all kinds of flexible packaging raw material to the converting, printing and packaging industries and would like to operate as a single window source for all raw materials for packaging converters,” Khan said. Some of the products for the flexible packing industry are polyster film, BOPP film, CPP film, aluminium foils, PE coated paper, solvents and zipper tapes. ABC Chemicals deals in all kinds of organic and inorganic pigments, pigment chips and carbon black used for all kinds of news inks as well as flexo and gravure inks.
The company’s portfolio for resins consists of aliphatic hydrocarbon resin for printing inks and adhesives, thylene-vinyl acetate co-polymer resin for printing inks and coatings, industrial nitrocellulose for printing inks, lacquers and polyurethane. Talking about the show, Khan said that the Asia Coat and Ink Show is an important event for the industry providing a platform for a variety of players in the industry to interact. “We have many important customers in India and the event gave us a chance to meet up with them. Also, we got a chance to interact with some potential customers,” Khan said adding that the response seen at the 2015 edition has been really good with many footfalls.
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