Tag: design

Packaging South Asia met Amarjeet Singh, manager at the LG central warehouse for spares in Greater Noida, for a user perspective of reusable PP corrugation packaging. It is from this manufacturing unit that spare parts are supplied to LG warehouses and branches all over the country. LG uses PP corrugation sheet boxes from Nilanchal Packaging for packing its LED TV panels. LG has a different approach when it comes to using these boxes for delivering items to the end users.

The deodorant market of 2016 witnessed a new premiumising influence: hybrids that combine the value of aerosol deodorants and pricier pump-based containers of liquid perfumes (albeit in aluminium cans). An attempt to ride two horses: value and the intangible promise of a fine fragrance. Into this market arrived Wild Stone’s Code, with its superior, designed-in-France fragrance.

Registration for the Pentawards 2017 will be closed at midnight on Friday, 7 April 2017, Los Angeles time. There will be no extension of the registration date for this worldwide packaging design competition. Aimed at packaging designers, brand owners, packaging suppliers and students, this is a great opportunity for all the stakeholders to show to the world their creativity and win a Pentaward trophy in the creative city of Barcelona, as well as to have their creations published by TASCHEN and much more.

Tata Elxsi, a global design company that blends technology, creativity and engineering, has won this year’s iF Design Awards, a world-renowned prize for design excellence. Tata Elxsi won the award for its exceptional work delivered for Kochi Metro Rail Limited, in the Service Design discipline.

WOW Design, a strategic brand design consultancy, has associated with Hershey’s for strategizing the packaging design for its newly launched range of healthy flavored milkshakes.

Esko has given its 3D packaging design software Studio 16 a makeover with the launch of Esko Studio 16, a part of what it calls Esko Software Platform 16. Esko Studio’s tools allow 3D packaging with a virtual reality type of animated rendering on 2D screens. This kind of animated feedback allows the substitution of a variety of materials and decoration effects  to be able to see them in virtual store simulations in various placements and lighting conditions. Designers can virtually hold the pack in their hands.

Paktek’s one-piece and multiple-piece folder gluer KS-1600M, being displayed at IndiaCorr Expo 2016, is built with compact machine design and self-developed auto 2-gun cold glue and 2-gun hot melt injection system. The gluer is considered helpful for short-run production for big cartons up to 3.2 metre for 1-piece or 1.6 + 1.6 metre for 2-piece in one carton. This combined gluing system is expected to secure significant bonding even under extreme temperature change during global transportation. Moreover, KS-1600M is designed with an efficient regulation unit.