Robust capacity building in films, monocartons, flexibles, corrugated and labels

There has been a great deal of capacity building in the South Asian packaging industry since the last drupa. The last four years have seen an influx of high speed gravure presses built both in Europe and in Asia. India itself has five quality manufacturers of gravure presses. Wide web flexo has also taken off, finally in India with the influx of presses increasing from two a year to something like a 10 to 12 new CI flexo presses from the likes of W&H, Bobst F&K, Soma and CMYK just in India. Flexible packaging continues to grow in double digits throughout the subcontinent with half a dozen new film manufacturing lines scheduled for installation in the next two years in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. As we had written earlier, major investors include Jindal Polymers and Cosmos as well as a new entrant to film manufacturing in Bangladesh. On the workflow, prepress and imaging side of the packaging industry, the past financial year (1 April 2015 to 31 March 2016) has also seen several technology and…

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