Packaging South Asia

PackPlus, which will be held from 3-6 August 2017 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, will see 375 companies spread across six halls over an area of 16,000 square meters. The event is expected to receive more than 20,000 visitors.

Like many other small but fast growing packaging film manufacturers from India, Surat-based Alpha Plastomers too has been aggressively working towards expanding its market share in developed regions of the world, such as USA and Europe. A leading manufacturer of flexible packaging solutions like POF shrink films and speciality products such as collation shrink films and mulch films, Alpha has participated in interpack for the second time. The company has two manufacturing plants located at Daman and Roorkee, and has a combined production capacity for shrink films of about 300 tons per month, which is expected to increase to 600 tons per month by next year. Alpha also manufactures PET bottles but currently has no plans to bring those to the international market.

Konica Minolta’s bizhub Press C71cf is an optimum printing solution for SMEs in the label printing and packaging segments. An entry-level press, the C71cf...

Kanodia Technoplast, a major player in the gravure printing packaging and converting market, has been a frontrunner in driving path-braking innovations in the flexible packaging industry. “Over the past two years, our strategy and internal call has been to bring ‘Innovation in Action’ in the flexible packaging industry,” says Anant Gadre, executive president at Kanodia Technoplast. “In line with this new strategy, we have rolled out two to three innovations per quarter in the past one year and our aim is to grow that number.”

Martin Automatic will showcase MBS automatic splicer and the LRD automatic transfer rewinder at the upcoming Labelexpo Europe 2017. The LRD will be fitted with optional features, some of which will be seen for the first time at Labelexpo.

Pizza boxes are not exactly the first thing that springs to mind when you think of creative packaging design. Graphics aside, all pizza boxes look the same – plain corrugated cardboard boxes that don’t particularly spark your appetite. Additionally, research has shown that today’s pizza boxes fail to meet the average pizza lover’s needs and expectations. It’s about time the pizza box got a stylish makeover and it finally came from Yinan Wang, a student of the Maryland Institute College of Arts,  who produced a brilliant design which is worth the wait.

Mumbai-based SP Ultraflex has achieved good success with its latest Roboslit dual turret slitter-rewinder in the past year. “In the last financial year, we achieved good sales,” says Biku Kohli, director of SP Ultraflex. “As always, it is a rewarding experience to see projections and estimates being substantiated on the floor, one after the other at the plants of leading flexible packaging companies.”

The winners of the Metpack Innovation Awards 2017 were presented their gold, silver and bronze trophies on the afternoon of 3 May 2017, at the Panorama room at the exhibition. Innovative content, cost savings and improved quality were the criteria against which the international jury from nine nations, chaired by Gernot Geldner, judged each of the 26 individual entries to this year's competition. The winner of the Gold Innovation Award was won by the Italian company PrintabLED for its high-performance UV-LED systems for paint and metal printing systems.

In India, the presence of counterfeits is specifically high in the FMCG packaged foods and pharmaceuticals sector. This is an issue that costs billions...

In the second half of February 2017, the Israel-based Landa Group and the Germany-based Altana Group announced the latter's acquisition of Landa’s metallography technology for an undisclosed consideration. First unveiled by Landa at its own stand at drupa 2016, the novel technology is claimed to be a sustainable alternative to foil-transfer processes, enabling metallization of graphics at up to half the cost of conventional foil stamping.