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Advanced hot and cold foil fresnel lens packaging technology from China will be available for the first time to Western manufacturers and converters as part of a new move from leading supplier, Fresnel Inc.

As demand for local and specialty products continues to grow, Memjet single-pass inkjet solutions is helping product manufacturers by powering a range of packaging and labeling solutions. These next-generation printing solutions let small manufacturers integrate labeling and packing directly into their production process, creating a quality look-and-feel for the product while reducing waste, improving efficiency, and saving money.

The future of a sustainable plastics industry rests on bold plans that involve ditching cheap manufacturing and rethinking the design of products, processes and business models, so rather than fuel a throwaway society, they work together to increase the worth of resin materials by prolonging their usefulness in multiple cycles of reuse and re-manufacture.

According to the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), currently Asia, the Middle East and Africa comprise 34% of global packaging consumption whereas Europe is 34%, North America 27% and Latin America 5%. Russia, India, Brazil and China are estimated to be the source of about 30% of future global demand, a proportion that will increase as their economies develop further. Other trends in buying behavior imply an even greater need for packaging material. The sourcing of fiber to meet this demand can have particularly adverse impacts on ecologically significant areas, not just domestically, but also across the South-East Asian region. This reflects a larger need for India’s packaging industry to ensure it uses only sustainably sourced material when meeting its long-term raw material requirements.

Demand for sustainable packaging, especially food packaging, keeps growing all over India as well as around the world. At the same time, there is now a global movement to save food and eliminate, or at least decrease, food waste throughout the food supply chain from farm to fork (in our case, from post-harvest to thali). There are, in addition, serious concerns on food safety and the inability of an economy to handle the sorting and processing of food and the packaging that comes along with it.

Martin Automatic Inc, headquartered in Rockford, Illinois, USA, is a leading designer and manufacturer of web handling equipment for the printing, packaging and converting industries. Martin’s line of innovative products includes automatic splicers, non-stop rewinders, and tension control and web guiding systems.

The Plastindia Foundation, which received India’s Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Ananth Kumar and his wife Tejaswini Kumar at the K exhibition in Dusseldorf, Germany as they arrived at the world’s largest exhibition on plastics, organizes the world’s third largest plastics exhibition known as Plastindia, which is next scheduled to take place in Ahmedabad in 2018. Almost simultaneously, the organization is planning the Plastindia International University, which is said to be the only plastics university in the world on an already allotted 37-acre plot of land near Vapi, Gujarat. The project was recently notified under the Gujarat Private Universities Act.