Tag: Mumbai

Mumbai-based Brilliant Polymers has become one of India’s leading suppliers of laminating adhesives for flexible packaging. With its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility at Ambernath, in the Mumbai metropolitan region, it produces over 10,000 tons of adhesives per annum. Going forward, the company plans to double its manufacturing capacity during the FY 2017-2018 with growing sales in India and exports.

Germany’s KHS, one of world’s leading filling and packaging solutions provider, has been operating in India for many years now. It has a very...

Packers for years have been grappling with the problem of narrow mouth opening of preformed Flat Bottom Pouches or 3 Dimensional (3D) Pouches on...

Energy efficiency will be paramount at the Busch stand at the International Food Processing and Packaging Exhibition in Mumbai, India from 15 to 17 December. Busch Vacuum Pumps and Systems, which develops vacuum pumps and centralized vacuum supply systems that operate with the highest possible levels of energy efficiency, will present for the first time its new series of rotary vane vacuum pumps designed specifically for packaging machines, offering energy savings of up to 20%. The new RD series is based on the technology of R 5 rotary vane vacuum pumps.

At this year’s Labelexpo India, Monotech had two stands – one displaying the various products of the companies that Monotech represents and the other...

Demand for sustainable packaging, especially food packaging, keeps growing all over India as well as around the world. At the same time, there is now a global movement to save food and eliminate, or at least decrease, food waste throughout the food supply chain from farm to fork (in our case, from post-harvest to thali). There are, in addition, serious concerns on food safety and the inability of an economy to handle the sorting and processing of food and the packaging that comes along with it.

Navi Mumbai based manufacturer of form-fill-seal machines, heat sealers, auger filler and specialized filling systems, Wraptech Machines has launched its next generation of form-fill-seal...

At Labelexpo India 2016, Monotech Systems will display its India-made variable data and security printer under the brand name Jetsci. Also on display will be its lineshaft press, Focus Proflex. The company has recently finished the first Focus Proflex installation in India at Glamod Techno Labels, Mumbai. Proflex SE flexo press is the latest offering from Focus Label Machinery, UK and was recently launched in Labelexpo Europe 2015. The new ‘SE’ open architecture print platform allows faster change-over and set-up of jobs with easy access for the operator to monitor all key elements like ink levels, impression pressures, register and drying systems. The press includes combination drying systems for labels, tickets and board, with IR, UV and UV LED including chill rolls for unsupported films. The new drop in cylinders ensures fast set-up and consistent quality printing throughout the press. The machine on display at the event will be a 6-color all UV Servo model with full UV and hot air/IR drying, cold foil and turn bar on rail, diecutting and easy loading features amongst others.

UPM Raflatac has opened a new office at Borivali, Mumbai. Following a decade of success in India, the company is anticipating further growth in...

Henkel, a leading global player in adhesives, home care and beauty care, has appointed Shilip Kumar as the president of its India business, effective 1 June 2016. Besides steering the adhesives and beauty care businesses of Henkel Adhesives Technologies India (Henkel India), Kumar will continue in his existing role of business director for Transportation and Metal Adhesives SBU in the India, Middle East, Africa (IMEA) regions. Kumar succeeds Jeremy Hunter, who led the India business for over five years and has now moved on to Shanghai as president of Henkel China. Based out of Henkel India’s head office at Navi Mumbai, Kumar will be responsible for leading Henkel’s businesses in India through its next growth phase.