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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.

Bobst presented guest converting companies with a programme dedicated to advanced laminating technology on 20 and 21 October 2015 in a real production environment at its customer Clear Lam Packaging in Elk Grove Village, near Chicago, in the United States. The programme included live laminating demonstrations of a Bobst CL1000D laminator as well as seminars relating the latest updates in the field of adhesive formulations and technologies.

Alpha Flex, a prepress trade house has now started producing digital flexo plates for labels, corrugation and flexible packaging. The company has chosen the most advanced digital flexo solutions – Esko software and a CDI Spark 4835 imager with high resolution optics. The software includes Esko’s complete Suite 14 and Pixel Plus and the extensive hardware on the shop floor includes the Esko CDI Spark 4835 with high resolution optics and the Dupont Digiflow. The complete Esko solution for flexographic plates offers a methodical delivery process and deployment along with a quick support for several application and production issues.

Provin Technos, distributor of Mitsubishi sheetfed offset printing presses, Rotatek label printing presses, MarquipWardUnited sheeting machines and other equipment, displayed a variety of machines through illustrations at the Pamex 2015 and introduced the In-line Cold Foil System at the four-day trade show.