Tag: Mumbai

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.

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.

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.

IppStar, with its long history of organizing nuts-and-bolts conferences across India, is organizing the Packaging Design Innovation Technology (PDIT) conference at PackTech 2016. The conference, organized in partnership with Messe Dusseldorf India in Mumbai, is not the usual packaging conference with back-to-back lectures from marketing executives but rather an attempt to knowledgeably address and interact on the difficult themes of food security and the environment together with the excitement of design, new innovations and technologies in packaging particularly as they pertain to food.

At PackPlus2016, Coimbatore-based Autoprint Machinery Manufacturers showed live demos of its automatic carton print inspection machine – Checkmate 50. KG Suresh, joint managing director of Autoprint, says, “In the last three to four years, Autoprint’s focus has been more on the postpress section of packaging. We have launched coating as well as diecutting machines. And in the last two years, we have been focussing more on the automatic carton inspection machine called Checkmate 50 which runs at a speed of 250 metres a minute, with three cameras inspecting simultaneously. The machine gives tremendous confidence to end customers to deliver defect-free products to their clients. It is very critical especially in the pharmaceutical, FMCG and other industries where quality standards have become much stricter.”

The journey to Mumbai went smoothly. Now, the multi-function press 1-TBR Compact from HC Moog is about to reach the best stage of its journey from Ruedesheim to Hyderabad. There, it will supplement the impressive machine fleet of Pragati Pack from May 2016 onwards.