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Established in 1996, Rukson Packaging is a commercial cum packaging converter based in Navi Mumbai. Speaking to Packaging South Asia, Kishin Panjabi, owner of Rukson Packaging said, “We started with a small plant of around 1,000 square feet in Mulund and continued to provide services to the commercial and packaging segment until 2007. With the goal to focus on the MetPet carton segment, we shifted the plant to Navi Mumbai at a bigger space of around 30,000 square feet. The plant is equipped with state-of-the-art technology. In 2014, we had issues with the labour union. It slowed production and created problems for smooth operations. We lost numerous print contracts and our sales targets also suffered. In August 2015 we installed a 6-color Komori press with UV and varnish coater in a bid to add UV printing capabilities to the packaging arsenal.”

Bobst Group SA, Mex, Switzerland, and WIFAG-Polytype Group, Bern, Switzerland, have entered into exclusive negotiations regarding a potential acquisition of WIFAG-Polytype’s coating technology business, as part of the Bobst strategy to successfully drive and continuously expand its existing product portfolio. With this acquisition, Bobst intends to leverage the strengths of both companies and to continue growing its coating technology business internationally.

Bobst, a family company based in the Swiss Canton of Vaud, is launching a year of events to celebrate its anniversary. Dating back four generations, the company was founded in Lausanne in 1890 and has managed to build an ambitious international economic project while remaining true to its roots and human values.

Parakh Agro Industries’ Plastics and Flexible Packaging Division just outside Pune is gearing up for a huge expansion in its flexible packaging capacity with the installation of a new F&K 10-color CI flexo press and additional ancillary and converting equipment. Parakh’s Plastics and Flexible Packaging Division in Pune sits next to one of the company’s several food processing and sorting plants located in Western and Northern India.

TCPL has recently strengthened its capacity in Haridwar with the addition of a KBA Rapida 106 8-color full UV plus coater and foiler, two Bobst Novacut ER with blanking systems and two Bobst folder-gluers. The recent investments in new technology and plant in Haridwar are a reflection of TCPL’s continuous growth and modernization. TCPL Packaging is a publicly traded company celebrating its 26th anniversary this year. In the past two years its share price on the Bombay Stock Exchange has risen more than eight times from Rs 65 in February 2014 to a high of Rs 527 in the last week of January 2016.

Mumbai-based Welbound demonstrated two of its very popular technologies at Pamex 2015. On display was its hot selling WB2000 which is a multi-clamp perfect binder with six book clamps along with PUReBind Standard which is a compact PUR perfect binder with automatic setup. “The WB2000 is a time tested product of ours and also one of our biggest sellers. It still remains very popular after all these years. At Pamex 2015 too it has been a crowd puller,” P. Sajith, marketing director of Welbound said with a hint of satisfaction.

The new Bobst SelectMet system incorporates Bobst F&K heritage flexo printing technology into a Bobst vacuum metallizer and is a simpler and more cost-effective alternative to the traditional de-metallization process without the complexity of special lacquers and chemical baths.

Ahmedabad-based Art-O-Print installed the AVT Workflow Link together with an AVT inspection platform for labels which was supplied by Reifenhauser India in November 2015. Earlier, in September the packaging solutions specialist installed a Gallus ECS 340 narrow web flexo press to service the label printing segment of the market.