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Registration has officially opened for Labelexpo India 2016. The largest label and package printing event in South Asia will be held from 17 to 20 November at the India Expo Centre in Greater Noida (Delhi NCR). Labelexpo India provides the best platform for domestic and international companies to showcase their expertise, products and technology innovations. With over 200 exhibitors, including 45 new ones, Labelexpo India offers highly valuable networking opportunities for visitors and exhibitors  by bringing together the entire supply chain with machinery, ancillaries, substrates and ink suppliers all under one roof.

The 6th All in Print China organized by the Printing Technology Association of China, China Academy of Printing Technology, and Messe Düsseldorf, Shanghai, will be held at Shanghai New International Expo Centre from 18 to 22 October 2016. In order to better understand the innovative highlights of the exhibition, the organizers held a pre-show press conference in Shanghai on 16 August which saw more than 100 representatives from printing and package associations, industrial media, printing enterprises and exhibitors from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and the Chinese mainland.

Hyderabad-based Pravesha Industries has bought India’s 100th 10-color Gallus ECS 340 narrow web flexo press. The purchase was celebrated at the Heidelberg-Gallus function in Mumbai in March. The fully loaded 10-color narrow web press Gallus ECS 340 was installed in July 2016. “We already have two intermittent letterpress presses for labels. To meet our increasing demands for labels, this time we wanted to add a flexo press and we bought the Gallus,” says B Sivaprasad Reddy, chairman, Pravesha. “Also, we wanted to cater to the non-pharma segment, apart from only serving the pharma industry. For that we wanted to have a fully loaded base machine where we can perform various sorts of challenging value-added label jobs in the future. The investment is inline with the group policy of backward integration for the group’s main company Aurobindo Pharma.” At present, 80% of Pravesha’s printing and converting is for Aurobindo Pharma while the remaining 20% is for outside customers like Mylan, Hetero and Dr. Reddy’s, which again are pharma companies.

Mumbai-based cartons solutions provider Okay Papers Products has been meeting the demands of a  variety of industries—healthcare, pharmaceuticals, agro-chemicals and FMCG. It operates from its Vasai plant, which has state-of-the-art infrastructure. To complement its press department, which is equipped with offset presses from Heidelberg, it has been investing in Bobst technologies in the recent past. In 2013, the company bought Ambition 76 A1 folder-gluer and last year it invested in Novacut 106 diecutter. In the postpress department, apart from the Novacut, it has also two retrofitted Heidelberg cylinder diecutters and two Platen die punching machines.

NPES, The Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing and Converting Technologies, with the support of Krista Media, will host the NPES PrintPack Outlook Conference 2016 on 6 October in conjunction with the AllPack and All Print Indonesia exhibitions at JIExpo, in Jakarta, Indonesia. An organized trade mission for NPES members in conjunction with the conference will provide additional business export opportunities through introductions to customers at networking events, during plant visits, via company trade show presence, and provide a deeper understanding of this key market’s significant potential.

The drupa 2016 exhibition was a success for Bobst, launching six new products. Bobst Group recorded a good first half-year 2016. Sales amounted to CHF 600.4 million for the first six months of 2016, compared to CHF 524.7 million in the previous year. The operating result (EBIT) increased by CHF 3.3 million to CHF 18.0 million. The net result reached CHF 9.7 million from CHF 14.8 million in the previous year, when the Group had a one-time CHF 8.1 million positive tax effect which did not occur in 2016. Bookings are stable and the backlog is slightly higher than in the previous year.

Some people say that drupa 2016 would mark the end of the big numbers, but deducing trends from statistics can be treacherous. For the past five drupas, the total number of exhibitors has remained relatively stable, oscillating between, grosso modo, 1,850 and 1,950, albeit on less and less exhibition space, wheres visitor delegations have been shrinking continuously during this period. With a total of 1,837 exhibitors and 260,000 visitors, drupa 2016 has been attended by 54,000 less visitors than drupa 2012, but in 2012 the decline was more than 75,000 as compared to 2008, after a period of relative stability and drupa 2000’s peak performance. Most of the decline is attributed to participants from Germany and its direct neighbours, as a result of industry consolidation, but also showing that companies are becoming more selective and are sending less staff to visit the show. A trend which, if we are to believe the drupa organizers, is keeping up or even increasing the percentage of decision-makers and thus overall participation quality.

“Value-addition, innovation and quality are the three pillars on which our company stands. We always try to add a little bit of innovation to our products. Recently we have developed products with natural feel effect, special textured effect, fresnel lens, holographic effects and others which we are showcasing at our stand. We can see a great amount of interest and appreciation for these products among the visitors to our stand at PackPlus,” says Kuldip Goel, managing director of Any Graphics. At PackPlus 2016, Any Graphics was displaying its range of products with innovative features and effects.