Packaging South Asia

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.

 

ABB today announced the acquisition of B&R, the largest independent provider focused on product- and software-based, open-architecture solutions for machine and factory automation worldwide. B&R, founded in 1979 by Erwin Bernecker and Josef Rainer, is headquartered in Eggelsberg, Austria, and employs more than 3,000 people, including about 1,000 R&D and application engineers. It operates across 70 countries, generating sales of more than US$ 600 million (2015/16) in the US$ 20 billion machine and factory automation market segment.

In contemporary times digital printing is the name of the game given its ability to offer ultimate solutions for flexible packaging, labels and decorative printing segments. The converting industry for long has been grappling with restricted availability of the right type of substrate supporting direct digital printing without prior priming and coating or surface treatment for that matter.

Avon Pacfo Services, a startup in the packaging and shipping materials segment, offers products and services to customers with big and small orders alike. Unlike most startups that go through a process of uphill task during the initial years, Avon Pacfo began on a strong note with adequate investment and infrastructure. The new venture is a division of Faridabad-based Avon Containers, a leading converter of corrugated shipping and packaging material, founded by Gaurav Agarwal, managing director of Avon Containers and  Himanshu Bhansali, former general manager at Umex Packaging.