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Lake Image Systems, one of the leaders in variable data integrity and print quality inspection for the packaging, labels, and commercial print industries will be exhibiting on Stand #11B42 at the drupa 2016 trade fair to be held in Düsseldorf from 31 May to 10 June. The company will feature its latest portfolio of solutions for document producers, label printers and packaging converters to automate variable data integrity and print quality inspection requirements. Four industry applications zones will be demonstrated at the show. These include:

TCPL has recently strengthened its capacity in Haridwar with the addition of a KBA Rapida 106 8-color full UV plus coater and foiler, two Bobst Novacut ER with blanking systems and two Bobst folder-gluers. The recent investments in new technology and plant in Haridwar are a reflection of TCPL’s continuous growth and modernization. TCPL Packaging is a publicly traded company celebrating its 26th anniversary this year. In the past two years its share price on the Bombay Stock Exchange has risen more than eight times from Rs 65 in February 2014 to a high of Rs 527 in the last week of January 2016.

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.”

Rotoflex, one of the global leaders in inspection, slitting, rewinding and diecutting equipment has released Vericut3, the next generation of its premier off-line finishing solution for digital and conventional printed web. With a completely redesigned platform, Vericut3 reconfirms the Rotoflex commitment to provide leading finishing solutions to the narrow web industry.

The Save Food initiative has welcomed Xiamen Changsu, its first member from China. The company is one of the leading manufacturers of flexible packaging and biaxially-oriented polyamide films (BOPA). A BOPA film usually serves as a barrier in packaging to prevent interaction between the content and the environment and thus ensures a longer shelf-life. The company has state-of-the-art facilities in Xiamen, Fujian Province, and will now be contributing its technical expertise and ideas to the Save Food community.

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.

Recently, the Japanese Society of Printing Science and Technology held a meeting to discuss new technologies aimed at helping the gravure printing industry succeed in an era dominated by short-runs. Although most long-runs in Japan would already be considered short-runs in many other countries, the increasing adoption of digital and flexo printing — more suited to short-runs — is hinting at a threat to the dominance of gravure printing in Japan’s flexible packaging market. Some of the technologies discussed at the meeting included proofing equipment designed to minimize printing machine downtime during onsite printing inspections, in-line spectrophotometer color matching, and efficient spot color formulation, among others. Many of the ideas offered by the presenters from both the gravure and inkjet printing industries were world firsts.

Uflex’s packaging films division is one of the largest Indian manufacturers of packaging films on a global scale. It has altogether five polyester, CPP and BOPP packaging film lines at its base in Noida and additional film manufacturing lines in Dubai, Egypt, Mexico, Poland and the United States. “We started our global expansion in 2005 by setting up footprints in Dubai, Egypt, Mexico and other countries.” Apart from bringing Uflex a global supplier of packaging films and packaging materials much closer to its customers in over a hundred countries, the globalized manufacture of packaging films freed up the capacity at its plant in Noida for the fast growing Indian flexible packaging industry. “Establishing our global packaging film plants has given us leverage for a higher availability of films in India since what was earlier being exported is now being consumed in India,” says Jagmohan Mongia, Uflex’s joint president, Packaging Film Business – India.

Established in 2001, Bengaluru-based Nice Prints produces leaflets, lock bottom cartons and sheetfed labels to pharmaceutical industries including Bayer Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Johnson & Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals and many other companies. The plant is located at Mysore with a built-up area of 32,000 square feet. In May 2014, Nice Prints installed a Bobst Visionfold 80 folder-gluer and Novacut 106 diecutter machines.