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Reckitt Benckiser Group is a British multinational consumer goods company headquartered in Slough, England. A producer of health, hygiene and home products, it was formed in 1999 by the merger of the UK-based Reckitt & Colman and the Netherlands-based Benckiser NV. Its Indian operations under the name of Reckitt & Colman started in 1951 although it has been selling its products in India since 1911. The company was rebranded as RB India in 1999.

Tokyo Pack 2016, a biannual exhibition will be held from 4 to 7 October at Tokyo Big Sight and will feature more than 2,600 stands representing 600 companies in the 23,000 square metre exhibition space, which attracts more than 70,000 visitors from inside Japan and overseas. As a reflection of the Tokyo Pack theme for this year, ‘The Heart of Advanced Packaging Solutions in Asia,’ the exhibition aims to be the venue choice for Japanese and global companies to exhibit their cutting-edge packaging solutions and technologies.

Mumbai-based Kunal Enterprise is a leading distributor of a variety of hardware and software solutions for the graphic arts industry. The company is the sole distributor of products from Japan’s Sakurai Graphics Systems, UK’s Natgraph Equipment Solutions and Taiwan’s Kang Yuan Industrial Company. Kunal also distributes products from Italy’s Demark and Belgium’s Esko.

Nagpur-based Veena Industries has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with BARC Centre for Incubation of Technologies (BARCIT), a part of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), for the use and scaling up of technology for manufacturing biodegradable and edible films for food and pharmaceuticals packaging.

The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry’s (FICCI’s) 2nd National Conference on Packaging Plastic – The Sustainable Choice held in New Delhi on 19 January 2016 was an elaborate affair witnessing the attendance of eminent people from the plastic packaging segment globally. Several students, sponsored by Sabic, were also given the opportunity to attend the conference in the national capital and learn from the industry experts first hand. While the welcome address was conducted by KK Seksaria, president, Plastindia Foundation, the inaugural session was moderated by Vinay Mathur, deputy secretary general, FICCI. Talking about the plastic industry, Mathur says, “Generally when we talk about ‘Make in India’ we tend to skip the point that ‘Make in India’ with zero defect is important and in the case of plastics it becomes even more vital.”

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.

Economic concerns, technological threat and uncertain futures have contributed to a crisis of confidence in print. Throw in rapidly changing market expectations and media choices, and you have an industry that’s been on the back foot for several years. But a reversal is underway. Print is reinventing itself to be more vibrant than ever, an energetic force in a multichannel communications world. Laurel Brunner reports.