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The inkjet solutions for packaging went beyond the usual specialty marking systems to actually demonstrate the full scale colour production of large size board and corrugated cartons on machines such as the very fast and the SunJet that was demonstrated at a customer site near Dusseldorf. Many of the newer flatbed UV inkjet printers such as the HP Scitex XP5300 and XP 2700 can also be used for some of these POP applications. Both of these are near the dozen mark as far as Indian installs.

In absolute numbers, Interpack showed a 28 per cent rise in Asian visitors as compared to interpack 2005, and an increase of 32 per cent in Indian visitors. Many of the visitors returned to Düsseldorf hardly a month later for drupa08. A visitor survey undertaken by Messe Düsseldorf indicates that 78 per cent of the visitors were interested in process technologies and equipment for packaging and converting.

The sabre eXtreme concept provides an electronic converting solution for digitally printed webs and eliminates the need for expensive rotary tooling that can often delay the converting operation. Set-up times and waste are reduced through instant make-ready and the need to lift and store heavy magnetic cylinders and dies in the workplace is eliminated.
States Tony Bell, Sales Director, “Software and hardware technology has changed since the launch of our first laser system and we have made a number of upgrades to sabre eXtreme that enhance performance and operation. They include new user-friendly operator interface, faster operating speed and enhanced cutting accuracy.”

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 Uflex range of products extends from basic raw materials like PET chips, inks and adhesives to intermediate products like BOPET/BOPP/CPP/ coextruded films, metallised films and gravure cylinders to finished products like multi-layered laminates and pouches, holograms and packaging systems. They also make a whole range of packaging and converting machinery.

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.

The last edition of this show in 2004 featured 1,866 exhibitors from 52 countries spread over 161,332 sq. m. of net space and attracted 394,478 visitors from 127 countries, 20 per cent of whom were from Asia. Indian visitors numbered 6 per cent – the third highest after Germany. This year’s event should see a further increase in these numbers.

Ever since the dawn of the industrial age, mankind has made incremental progress. From the days of the agrarian economy when there was no such thing as economic growth to today’s information age where growth and progress are the altars at which the world worships, there has been a mind boggling transformation in the way humans carry on their lives. But all this progress and growth has been accompanied by tremendously negative effects like the demise of traditional ways of living, the growth of urban slums, the contamination of the environment and socio- cultural upheavals.

Soma Engineering of the Czech Republic will launch its new Imperia flexo press at drupa at the end of May 2008. The Soma Flex Imperia includes new technology from Soma for improved performance at high press speeds that will put the new wide web flexo machine at the top of the company’s range of presses.

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.