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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.

On 19 October, India’s Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Ananth Kumar and his wife Tejaswini Kumar were warmly greeted by the organizers of K exhibition in Dusseldorf, Germany as they arrived at the world’s largest exhibition on plastics. The minister was welcomed by Joachim Schafer, managing director of Messe Dusseldorf, and Thomas Schlitt, managing director of Messe Dusseldorf India as he inaugurated the formidable Indian presence at the show at the  joint pavilion of Indian exhibitors, organized by the Plastindia Foundation—the apex body of the plastics industry in the country.

Retort pouches recorded all-time top sales this year in Japan and the sector had its strongest-ever showing at Tokyo Pack 2016—an important shop window for companies serving the Asia region—where Swedish pouch manufacturer Ecolean competed with domestic suppliers for new business in arguably the most testing global market, and Japanese-owned Kururay Plantic revealed its future intentions to expand into pouches.

At Labelexpo India, Capital Graphic Supplies/Tresu Group plans to showcase ancillary equipment, including supply systems and chamber doctor blades for controlling and automating ink coating supply in narrow- and mid-web flexo printing presses.

The ninth edition of the Multilayer Packaging Films Conference will take place in Vienna from 15 to 17 November 2016. In the opening session of the conference, Kraft Heinz will discuss the expectations that fast moving consumer goods companies place on their packaging and AMI will give an update on the latest market trends driving the industry forward.

The inaugural Packaging, Design, Information & Technology (PDIT) Conference will be held in Mumbai on 16 and 17 December 2016, alongside the PackTech India/FoodPex India Exhibition. Organized jointly by IPP Star, a printing and packaging advisory, research, training and consulting firm, and Messe Düsseldorf India, the first ever PDIT Conference aims to set in motion a vital narrative that will integrate the idea of Save Food in the fast-growing packaging industry in India. The Indian packaging industry is poised to scale the US$70 billion mark in the next 3–4 years (Business Standard), of which the processed food producers will account for a huge chunk.