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Uncollected plastic waste, especially plastic packaging waste, is a ubiquitous sight on Indian roads, drains and other water bodies. There is a growing demand for a ban on the usage of plastic

The plastics packaging industry faces an eternal conundrum on sustainability. The hard fact is that high-barrier packaging, especially that which includes mixed materials like metallized films and

What packaging trends do you see gaining prominence in 2018? Whether it be in innovation, design or consumers perspective. Sustainable packaging will carry on to be one of the biggest trends in 2018 – how do you see companies and brands tackling this?

Worldwide, experts have established 7 elements as key to the development of circular economies. These elements are prioritizing regenerative resources, preserving and extending what’s already 

Kumar Labels recently celebrated its 10th anniversary with a technology sharing event NAVONMESH 2007-17 (Innovations 2007-17) at the Le Meridien hotel New Delhi. Brand owners and label industry leaders took part and shared recent innovations

In the past decade we have witnessed the inroads of wide-web flexo presses to narrow-web territory, as well as the inverse.  

PSA editor Naresh Khanna asks Nishith Rastogi of Locus about a range of packaging and logistics issues, including the implications of GST. Brand owners and packaging designers need

K 2016 in Dusseldorf attracted some 230,000 visitors, including almost 30,000 from Asia. While the total number of visitors was up from around 220,000 at previous shows, the Asian numbers were slightly down, mainly due to a steady decrease in visitors from India as reported by the organizers. From the printing and converting machinery segment, Bobst, Cerutti, Comexi, Kampf, KBA-Flexotecnica, KBA-Kammann, Mimaki, Omso, Polytype, Soma, Tampoprint, Uteco, Van Dam and Windmöller & Hölscher were the big runners, accompanied by around fifty smaller manufacturers from Asia, Italy and Turkey. Turkish manufacturers were particularly visible in the in-mold labeling machinery section.