The inaugural Flexo Summit Asia 2025 in Jaipur offered valuable insights into the future of flexographic printing — bringing together brand owners, innovators, and converters from across India and beyond. Held at the Jaipur Exhibition and Convention Centre on 26 and 27 November 2025, the two-day residential summit served as an extensive knowledge-sharing platform, exploring possibilities, profits, and people and featuring carefully curated panel discussions and breakout sessions.
The summit’s core theme, ‘Why Flexo?,’ was examined from multiple perspectives — including substrate compatibility, process versatility, short and medium print runs, and sustainability. A growing emphasis on extended color gamut (ECG) printing as the industry’s next frontier resonated in several presentations. ECG printing uses a fixed ink set beyond the traditional CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow and black) to achieve a wider, more vibrant range of reproducible colors — often adding orange, green, and violet (CMYKOGV).
The sessions spotlighted the industry’s growing integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced automation, recognized as key drivers of flexo’s global evolution. Discussions focused on India’s market size and growth potential, leveraging technology to boost productivity and reduce waste, integrating flexo into the broader technology mix, and why converters should embrace flexo. Topics ranged from next-generation workflow automation to data-driven decision-making — presenting tools to future-proof businesses.
Speakers shared the ambition of developing smarter factories with minimal human intervention. A smart factory is an end-to-end integrated manufacturing facility that uses connected systems, sensors, and software to collect and analyze data in real time, enabling automation, greater efficiency, and adaptability. The envisioned flexo factories leverage technologies such as AI, the Internet of Things (IoT), and cloud computing to drive continuous improvement and self-optimization.
Profitability today extends beyond scale — it’s about precision. Yet it goes down the drain if the ecosystem isn’t a win-win for brands, converters, and OEMs. At Flexo Summit Asia 2025, these stakeholders came together to discuss challenges, identify opportunities, and explore strategies to optimize operations, scale intelligently, and unlock new revenue streams.
Attendees described the event as an excellent platform for sharing knowledge and insights, driving growth across machine manufacturers, roll and sleeve makers, plate suppliers, and the wider supply chain. The three Rs — reuse, reduce, and recycle — featured in discussions, with presenters noting that “reuse has remained underrated, while reduce continues to shine as a cost-cutting strategy.”
Several brand owners and security solution providers noted that “consumer awareness remains a challenge.” While industries committed to protecting consumers from counterfeit goods continue to evolve, end users often remain indifferent.
More awareness campaigns are urgently needed to educate customers and combat the rise of counterfeit products. Technologies to prevent counterfeiting exist, but consumers must understand what they are and how they work. And this requires sustained collaboration.
