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In end January, we met Gianfranco Nespoli of Comiflex together with Ajay Tandon, president and chief executive officer – engineering and new product development, and director of Ultimate Flexipack and Sanjay Sabharwal, executive vice president of the Uflex engineering division. “Nespoli is a hardcore flexo man with close to 40 years of experience in flexo press manufacturing,” says Tandon. “So we have a technical tie-up wherein we are using their drawings, designs, their brains, their support, their component developments overseas and more—the agreement comes with a complete package.”

Kolkata-based Nextgen Printers installed a 7-color Roland 700 sheetfed press with coater at its Howrah plant in October 2016. “The press is from manroland sheetfed Germany while technical support for maintenance is being provided by manroland sheetfed India. We also have dedicated engineers in-house, who have been trained by manroland,” says Mahesh Khandelwal, director at Nextgen Printers.

The last six years have seen a stellar period for Valco Melton India, a subsidiary of US-based Valco Cincinnati. During the short span of starting its establishment in 2010 till now, Valco Melton India has built a significant customer base in both hot melt and cold glue application systems in India and the surrounding markets. More than 500 adhesive application systems are now running in these markets in such diverse applications as packaging, hot melt coating, non-woven, wood working, automotive, newspaper, corrugated, folding carton, print finish and many more. Some prominent customers that Valco Melton caters to include Kimberly Clark, Bobst, The Times of India, MDH, Hilda Automation, Coca-Cola, Unilever and Dabur, to name a few.

The All in Print China 2016 show has come to an end amidst visible encouraging signs for the printing industry in Asia. Held from 18 to 22 October 2016 at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC), the show is one of the biggest events in the printing industry of China and the Asia-Pacific region. The AIP 2016 show hosted a gathering of 724 exhibitors coming from 22 countries and regions in an exhibition area of approximately 80,000 sq. m.  The show emphasized on the Chinese collaborations with well-known international brands from various fields on showcasing innovative products, cutting-edge technologies and solutions for printing and packaging. Jointly organized by The Printing Technology Association of China, China Academy of Printing Technology and Messe Dusseldorf (Shanghai), the show had support and guidance from the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television of the People’s Republic of China (SAPPRFT), the Ministry of Commerce and the Shanghai Municipal Government.

The Indian label industry is a complex yet dynamic one, growing at 8% per year. Although wet glue labels are still growing, they are making way for pressure-sensitive and flexible labels. Flexo and combination presses are also charting the growth ladder in a market otherwise largely dominated by offset.

Held every three years during eight days in October, this year’s event attracted some 230,000 visitors, including almost 30,000 from Asia. While the total number of visitors was up from around 220,000 at previous shows, the Asian numbers were slightly down, mainly due to a steady decrease in visitors from India as reported by the organizers (9,000 as compared to 10,000 at K2013 and 11,000 at K2010). The number of exhibitors from India also was down to 104, from 145 at K2013. Out of the total of 3,285 exhibition stands (a number growing by a few dozens from show to show), 752 were taken by Asian companies, of whom 400 from China and Hong Kong, 127 from Taiwan, 46 from Korea, 30 from Japan, 17 from Malaysia and 28 from Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia, Pakistan, Australia and New Zealand.