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After the product has been designed and approved, after the tools have been specified and fabricated, after the press make-ready has generated a quality...

Facing the need to cut costs and increase production output, automation and optimization of packaging processes has fast moved into the focus of manufacturers....

In mid 2013, Bobst completed the commissioning of a 9-colour Rotomec 888 gravure printing press at Robin Printing & Packages, near Dhaka, the first...

Chennai-based Suba Solutions brings a range of finishing equipment for various applications including packaging, book and commercial printing to the Indian market. The decade-old...

Plastic for packaging has been under scanner from various segments due to its non-degrading nature which has a detrimental impact on the environment. In...

In Europe and North America, some 100 kilograms of food is thrown away per person each year although it is still fit for consumption....

The Sensex has rallied well over the past month, even crossing its highest point rally of the past six months. The question on everyone’s mind was has the market recovered? Has the Indian packaging industry survived the global economic recession? While most would claim that the worst is over, many thoughts are still hovering on a note of cautious optimism. Compare this to eight months ago, with the doomsayers predicting a bleak outlook for the economy. But according to the luxury packaging service providers PSA spoke to in Mumbai, things are looking up.

Rotomec’s 9-colour RS 4004X gravure printing press equipped with the unique Total Automtic Pre-register Setting (TAPS) feature for automatic cylinder pre-register setting was demonstrated at the Open House to illustrate the latest advances aimed at successfully reducing waste in gravure printing. The RS 4004X gravure demonstration comprised printing two 6-colour jobs on PET substrates, with a change of colour on an off-line unit during printing, showing the gravure cylinder pre-washing sequence, a fully automatic splice, the automatic and simultaneous changeover of 6 trolleys, the replacement of the doctor blade holder and splash guards on two printing units.

Madico Graphic Films, a leading UK supplier of specialist pressure sensitive, coated film products for durable label applications, has introduced (in the last week of April 2009), a cost-effective and environmentally-friendly destructible polyolefin labelstock designed to offer improved benefits in security marking applications such as asset tracking labels and security seals.

Graham Packaging Company has introduced new lightweight the lightest weight bottle in the smooth-walled, hot-fill category which the company claims is a good match for teas, juices, and isotonic drinks. The new bottle is called the Escape and represents a step forward in invertible-base technology.