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The most important trend in the Indian economy as well as the Indian packaging industry is hardly a trend; it is more or less a fact of life – uncertain and gradual but positive expansion of the industry and the continued evolution in its use of technology and best practices.

How about a paper sack containing 50 kilos of cement that can be dropped from a height of 50 ft as many as 40...

Almost a hundred years have passed since the first corrugated box was commercially produced in England in 1917. The converting industry in India is expected to embrace several technology changes in 2016 that are likely to alter current trends and themselves become new trends in the coming years. December 2015 saw the signing by 196 countries of the Paris agreement on climate change which should compel India to raise the trajectory of its green growth. With relatively high economic growth, and as the third largest carbon emission country there is a huge opportunity as well as necessity to ramp up renewable output and to decarbonize many industrial sectors.

Pearl Polymers responds to PET ban

Windmöller & Hölscher’s modular Varex II blown film lines

Web Printing – Together We Grow – 13 February 2015

What new interesting developments can one look forward to seeing at this year’s Interpack? While some exhibitors have released advance information on what will be on display, based on which we have written up a company-wise preview, most people are playing their cards very close to their chest. We predict that most new products or solutions on display will be related to the most acutely felt concerns and needs of brand-owners and consumers. Some of those worth looking out for are:

Unfortunately, a lot of incorrect notions still abound, helped in no small measure by many different reports and claims or counter-claims published by a wide variety of people or organisations, each with different axes to grind, all intent on saying, a la Jack Horner, “what a good boy I am”. Everybody but everybody is bursting his guts to announce how good and responsible a corporate citizen and “green” he is and how many barrels of oil he’s saved or how many cars he’s taken off the road. Many of these claims are misleading or exaggerated. A lot of confusion certainly exists on what really constitutes sustainability in packaging. This write-up is an attempt to explain the basics involved though it must be admitted that the whole mélange of issues is aggravatingly complex and beset with contradictions and conflicts of interest between different fundamental objectives.