Tag: Packaging

At PrintPack India 2017, Fujifilm India showcased its high-quality printing and prepress solutions including plates, equipment and chemistries. In addition, the company showcased its wide format solutions—Fujifilm Acuity EY and Acuity LED 1600—as well as B2 size digital inkjet press solutions and DX 1160 UV platesetter.

During the PrintPack 2017 exhibition, we caught up with V Vaidyalingam, director at Suba Solutions at their stand, where the company had on display their high-speed quality inspection and sorting machine, Focusight. An offline inspection system for the packaging industry, applicable for cartons and labels, Focusight features high precision cameras boasts of highly advanced software. The system is ideal for both paper board and METPET cartons and supports inspection of quality standards of several operations, including printing varnishing, lamination, foil stamping, cutting, creasing, braille embossing and much more.

The world’s active and intelligent packaging industry has flagged 2016 as its breakthrough year, having seen an unprecedented level of interest from brand owners curious to explore new powers put in their hands by an incoming tide of sensor devices and code-based technologies that are overturning old ideas of packaging.

Faridabad-based APL Machinery is a leading manufacturer of screen print machines to print on various shapes and substrates including paper as well as round containers. At Plastivision, APL launched Omega Roto UV 1000—a unique UV coating and curing machine that can generate speeds of more than 150 m/minute with a single UV cassette rather than two cassettes. The machine is also equipped with E+L web tension controller and has been built to meet the diverse needs of high gloss and scratch-free coating on various flexible substrates.

Parksons Packaging, which placed its first order for the Autoprint Checkmate print inspection system in August 2016 for its Daman plant, has approached the latter again for a second installation in its Assam plant. Ramesh Kejriwal, chairman of Parksons Packaging says, “Our buying experience with Autoprint has been very competitive and congenial. The installation and training imparted has been exemplary and the after-sales support very prompt and flawless.”

Being the first company to produce plastic processing machinery, Windsor Machines showcased its range of injection blow moulding and extrusion machineries integrated with Industry 4.0. Speaking to Packaging South Asia, TS Rajan, chief executive officer, Windsor Machines says, “We have been participating in Plastivision since the first exhibition. Plastivision is the second biggest exhibition happening in India. The Mumbai industry is a place of decision makers and geographically a favorable space for people from various industrial segments in the country.

Mumbai-based Rukson Packaging has expanded its production capability by bringing in some of the latest converting equipment to produce value-added printed cartons. “We are serious about the quality and, thus, many quality control tasks are being shifted to automated systems to increase reliability and reduce manual intervention. Hence, we invested in high-end technologies to ensure better quality and efficiency while maintaining high speed of production,” says Kishin  Punjabi, director at Rukson Packaging.