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EskoArtwork’s fully-owned subsidiary and Global Resource Centre at Bangalore will be headed by Mr.  Dinesh Chandra, who has been overseeing Esko’s Indian operations since 2000. According to Mr. Chandra, “The opening of the Global Resource Centre in Bangalorre reinforces EskoArtwork’s global market coverage, complementing the resources we have already deployed in Europe, North America and the Far East.”

The main emphasis was on shelf ready packaging (SRP) highlighted at theme-oriented collective pavilions at the show’s Innovation Parc for Packaging. Participants in the pavilions included, among others, Heidelberg, MAN Roland, EskoArtwork, Metro, M-Real, Siegwerk, Smurfit-Kappa and COPACO. Products on display reflect the industry’s major trends such as the increased use of robots, software integration, RFID, bioplastics, waste reduction, recycling and energy saving technologies.

For many years, Windmöller & Hölscher (W&H) has been known to converters in the flexible packaging market as a supplier of complete blown film lines. Less known may be the fact that the company also utilises its expertise in order to retrofit older W&H blown film lines as well as other makes of blown film equipment with modern components and modules from its current product range. The focus of W&H‘s retrofit program is on increasing output rates, improving film quality, enhancing the efficiency through increased effective up-time, extending the flexibility and reducing waste as well as material usage. Retrofit solutions offered for these purposes range from resin supply to controlled gravimetric metering, plasticising units, different dies, sizing cages and haul-offs and also encompasses the winder and the entire process automation concept.

Every visitor entering the shop floor of the spanking new flexible packaging plant of UFlex Ltd. in Jammu, North India has to wear a net cap and sign a health questionnaire querying whether or not the person is free of certain specified ailments, infections and allergies! Following this, the visitor passes through a double door chamber which gives a pressure air wash. This is symbolic of the company’s emphasis on hygiene and safety in a factory producing packaging material for many companies in the food and pharmaceutical industry.

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.

In our last issue, we had cited two statements most people believe to be true. These are: – Packaging made from natural and renewable agricultural materials like corn and wood is more environment-friendly.
– Packaging that is biodegradable is more environment-friendly.
We had gone on to say that these are both myths and, based on existing knowledge, incorrect when viewed scientifically. Let us see why this is so.

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Packaging design evolves with time. With time the technology gets more sophisticated. The market thrives on offering choice — by design. In this regular feature, we take a close look at everything that happens between developing a new product and designing its packaging; everything that deals with the current retail scenario, manufacturing constraints, filling line issues, transportation logistics, cost constraints and more.

Weldon non residue tamper evident label stock
Weldon Cellopast launched their new range of non-residue tamper evident void seurity labelstock at the India Label Show 2006 in December 2006. When removed