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Among the top packaging converters in Pakistan, privately-owned Saima Packaging is home to top-flight equipment for printing flexible materials including, most recently, a Bobst RS 4003MP gravure press which has cut make-ready times and reduced waste. The 8-color Bobst RS 4003MP installed last year at Saima Packaging’s flexible packaging production facility in Karachi, Pakistan, features technical solutions for automation and reduced waste that enable it to be operated profitably with any mix of print job lengths, from short to long run production.

Based on the economic indicators of the last 12-18 months, the state of North American packaging, especially in the US, is very strong, according to Charles D Yuska, president and chief executive officer, The Association of Packaging & Processing Technologies (PMMI), during a press conference at interpack 2017. Rising employment, increase in the pace of wage growth and low inflation has put American consumers in a position of strength, which is expected to raise the level of spending in 2017.

India’s leading printed folding carton manufacturer, TCPL Packaging Limited, has installed its third QuadTech Inspection System to further drive printing efficiencies as it moves to support flexible packaging. In addition to the inspection system, the order includes Data Central, PDF verification, Waste Management and Web Viewing Systems—equipping TCPL with a complete defect management workflow.

Healthcare Packaging EXPO, the successor to the most comprehensive pharma event in years, will be co-located with PACK EXPO Las Vegas this fall in Las Vegas Convention Center from 25 to 27 September. Produced by The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies (PMMI), Healthcare Packaging EXPO is expected to lead the way in packaging innovation for pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device manufacturers.

At interpack 2017, HP announced continued adoption of its digital printing solutions, alongside new innovations. HP packaging and labels printing is gaining traction worldwide with an accelerated pace of customer installations.

Digital printing adoption by leading converters worldwide
Amcor, a leading global flexible packaging supplier headquartered in Switzerland, is operating an HP Indigo 20000 Digital Press, in its Ghent, Belgium facility, to provide digitally printed packaging on a wide range of flexible materials. Since the installation of the press in 2015, Amcor reported increasing procurement of HP Indigo digital print by brands for a variety of packaging applications.

Consumer focus on wellness, environmental impact and macroeconomic factors such as the growth of the middle class creating more disposable income are shaping the global packaging market, said Charles D. Yuska, president and chief executive officer, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies (PMMI), at a press luncheon during interpack.

The third edition of the Save Food Congress took place at the Messe Centre in Dusseldorf with a reiteration of its aims—bringing both awareness and action to a movement that needs to address the polarities of excess and want in a far too divergent world. The conference saw the renewal of agreement between the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and Messe Dusseldorf to continue their cooperation in the Save Food initiative. Save Food is one of the six initiatives of the UN KOP conference on climate change held in 2015.

In the early 1990’s, when we needed to print outdoor posters on synthetic papers from Yupo and Arjomari, we were unable to find any UV offset sheetfed press in the country. The first time I heard of a UV multicolor press was in Mumbai, when we saw samples of plastic cosmetic packaging for export by Utility Packaging printed on a second-hand Heidelberg multicolor press with conventional UV inks. (There was no other UV print curing system available at the time.) The first new multicolor press with full interdeck and end-of-press was the KBA Rapida 105 imported by Parksons Packaging for its Daman plant in 2005.