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Huhtamaki has acquired 51% of Val Pack Solutions (Valpack), paper cup manufacturer based in Mumbai. With the acquisition, Huhtamaki enters the growing food service packaging market in India, where many of its key customers are already present.

When two Indian professionals from Silicon Valley in California, United States, decided to return home to set up an enterprise of their own, it was not the usual tech firm offering solutions to megabuck B2B enterprises that they had in mind. Instead, they launched Banyan Nation in 2013, an organization dedicated to recycling plastic waste and churning out top grade and more durable plastic pallets. Selling top grade recycled plastic pallets wasn’t their only objective; rather, setting up a sustainable waste plastic recycling system was what they wanted to do and they succeeded in doing so with a lot of value for the Indian plastic recycling industry.

Nichrome has recently launched two machines in the Indian market – the Excel 400 which is an updated version of its popular Excel range and a completely new multi-lane Stickpack machine which is aimed at packaging of small packages such sugar or dairy whitener for the airline industry or the fast food industry which is booming at the moment says Hemant Ogale, managing director of Pune-based Nichrome India. Nichrome is one of the exhibitors at PackPlus being held at Pragati Maidan from 27 to 30 July 2016.

Valco Melton’s focus is still very much on packaging at the moment says Ravi Kiran, director of Valco Melton India. In PackPlus 2016, Valco Melton, one of the world’s leading suppliers of adhesive dispensing equipment and quality inspection systems is offering its technical expertise, along with its solutions.

At drupa 2016, Taiwan-based Paktek, a manufacturer of auto folder-gluers, auto flute laminators and flattening and slicing machines promoted its KS-1600M folder-gluer. Amy Chan of Paktek said, “The KS-1600M offers a cost-effective solution to make big cartons with the existing line of converting equipment. The investment includes the package cost of the integrated 2-gun cold and 2-gun hot melt gluing injection system. This is a machine which can take less space and produce more for the customer with less wastage.”

Bobst will present an advanced range of technology and process solutions in printing and converting for the global label industry at Labelexpo Americas in Rosemont, ILL, USA, from 13 to 15 September 2016. Star of the show on Bobst’s stand will be the digital flexo process which will be demonstrated on the Bobst M6 mid-web inline UV flexo press. The advantages of digital flexo, which is part of Bobst Digital Automation programme, are unique in making the press operation fast, flexible and reliable, allied with a consistently superior quality of the output and the lowest total cost of ownership.

Laurel Brunner writes, “Drupa 2016’s attendance and sales numbers show that print is in rude health.” (Just so this British idiom is not misunderstood – if someone’s in rude health, they are very healthy and look it.) Brunner writes this in the context of sustainability but I am quoting her so that our readers can benefit from the considered opinion of a savvy industry expert.

Our visit to the IGT Testing Systems stand at drupa 2016 revealed that there is much about this organization that we were not aware of. Since the stand was large, there were far more testing and measuring instruments at drupa than we have seen at any earlier exhibition. In the past some potential customers in India have said to us that the IGT class of instruments while desirable to have are quite expensive for a small or medium sized plant.

Goebel IMS will ‘touch the future’ of high performance slitting-rewinding at drupa (Stand 10E61). On exhibit will be their high speed T2 family of slitter-rewinders for slitting, perforating paper and board of any kind. The T2 Series features single shaft center winders, ideal for converting aseptic packaging, filter and specialty papers. The T2 family of slitting machines are equipped with an idle, lay-on roller and have numerous options available. Basic models have a working width of up to 2200 mm (86.6 inches) and a rewind diameter of up to 1,800 mm (70.9 inches), at a maximum speed of up to 1200 metres a minute (3,937 feet a minute). The T2 can also be configured for bi-directional inspection rewinding for repairing telescoped or damaged rolls.

A new partnership between Hybrid Software and Cerm has resulted in significant opportunities for printers to improve efficiency and profitability by interfacing Hybrid’s innovative productivity tools with Cerm’s MIS products. Both companies focus on the label market, with Cerm selling almost exclusively to the traditional and digital narrow web sector.