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The 2017 edition of the Middle East Packaging Summit kicked of on 18 September at the Sheraton Dubai Creek Hotel & Towers in Dubai. The leading packaging

PackPlus, the packaging, processing and supply chain event, is just a week  away. With more than 375 exhibitors, 80 product launches, 250+ live demos, this year’s exhibition is all set to be bigger and better than ever before. Many entrepreneurs have started their businesses from trade shows in the past.

Heidelberg’s new chief executive Rainer Hundsdörfer, who joined the company six months ago, said that after a rough patch the company was essentially back on track with improved financial results in the final quarter of the last financial year. Speaking at a round-table meeting at interpack, Hundsdörfer said that the company's Q4 of 2016-17 was its best since 2008, while explaining that the company had maintained its research and development budget even in the past several years of stress. Also at the meeting was Ferdinand Reusch, managing director of Heidelberg's subsidiary Gallus and the largest private, and perhaps most active and visible, shareholder in Heidelberg Druckmaschinen.

RS Sodhi was named managing director of Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd, the organization behind the Amul brand of milk and milk products, in 2011. Since then, he has staved off incoming competition in the dairy business, expanded Amul’s portfolio of products and attacked new geographies. In the midst of another legal battle, Sodhi talks about why the ice cream versus frozen dessert issue refuses to die down, why MNCs find it hard to succeed in the dairy business and what Indians want from their dairy products. Edited excerpts from an interview:

When Packaging South Asia visited Nichrome India’s Shirwal plant about 55 km from Pune at the end of March, it was bustling with activity. There were customers visiting, machine trials taking place on the shop floor and finished machines waiting to be dispatched. Nichrome, India’s leading form fill and seal (FFS) solutions provider, has had a very good last one year as the company launched some successful new and upgraded products and at the same time made significant breakthroughs in some new markets overseas.

HP and Redington India launched India’s first Centre of Excellence in Chennai on 23 January. The new center in Guindy Industrial Estate will showcase HP Indigo’s digital offset presses along with a host of prepress, postpress and web-to-print solutions for commercial, photo, publishing, labels and packaging segments.

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.