December 08, 2005
In-line flexographic printing and converting technology has made tremendous inroads into the package printing arenas around the globe. Flexo has, for several years, been t... Read More >>
November 26, 2005
GEW had a presence at the Heidelberg India Gallus stand at the India LabelShow at New Delhi in December 2004. Even at that time the company showed great interest in manufacturing... Read More >>
November 24, 2005
In the past few years, Bobst has installed 287 machines in India of which approximately 200 are in the folding carton segment. As per Mr S K Roy, Vice President, Indian Operations in 2... Read More >>
October 29, 2005
Gopsons 4150 One of the larger and more automated narrow web flexo press lines in India has been installed at Gopson Papers Limited in Noida. This is a Mark Andy 4150, 16-inch-w... Read More >>
October 11, 2005 | By Ron Augustin European Correspondent
This has been the most interesting Labelexpo I have witnessed for the past decade. By far the largest so far, with 500 exhibitors and more than 23,000 visitors from 110 countries... Read More >>
September 18, 2005
Creo is demonstrating new Acrobat plug-ins for its Prinergy Powerpack workflow management system at the INFO*FLEX Exhibition. PDF Compare and PDF Merge are two new, innovative tools th... Read More >>
September 18, 2005
In the future, rather than just providing passive protection, packaging will additionally play an active role. Developers in the USA, Japan and Australia have been looking into the ide... Read More >>
September 18, 2005 | By Naresh Khanna
We visited Twenty-First Century Printing’s plant in Silvassa in December. 180 kilometres from Mumbai, the plant was built in 1990 as a specialty plant for tobacco product packaging by ... Read More >>
August 30, 2005
Bobst India hosted a seminar on folding cartons for a high profile gathering of converters in Mumbai. Atilla Karjari, Technical and Marketing Support (Bobst Autoplaten diecutters... Read More >>
August 29, 2005
Founded in 1946, Sugano Manufacturing Co. is one of the largest producers of automatic cutter creasers in Japan. Over more than half a century, Sugano has developed high performance bo... Read More >>
August 26, 2005
ATE has been gradually expanding its portfolio for the graphic arts industries over the last three years. While we have written about its tie-ups with Esko-Graphics for DMX output devi... Read More >>
August 18, 2005
The Asia Pacific region is one of QuadTech’s fastest growing territories, and to meet projected growth and increased customer demand, QuadTech has made some organizational change... Read More >>
August 10, 2005
Update Prints based in the Naraina industrial area of Delhi is one of the leading exporters of labels in the country. With extensive high technology equipment and expertise in la... Read More >>
August 01, 2005
Heidelberg is increasingly a packaging supplier and it seems to be realizing that some of the Western European products are too pricey for the Asian market. At the same time Heid... Read More >>
July 29, 2005
Flexo Image Graphics Pvt. Limited will now be the exclusive sales and service distributor of Mark Andy and Comco narrow web presses throughout the Indian Sub-Continent.... Read More >>
July 29, 2005
The Global Packaging Alliance (GPA) announced in Rochester that they have added a new partner in India by signing an agreement with Kumar Printers Pvt. Ltd, located in Gurgaon. Kumar P... Read More >>
July 23, 2005
DuPont has just announced that it will hold regional competitions and all the winners of the Asia Pacific Grand Prix DuPont Cyrel will automatically be entitled to participate at the 7... Read More >>
July 11, 2005
Label Summit India 2006, will take place in Mumbai on 21-22 February 2006, just as India is beginning to open up the retail industry. Big brand owners such as Wal-Mart, SABMiller, and ... Read More >>
July 05, 2005 | By Ramu Ramanathan
There is change. In India, open markets are giving way to supermarkets. Retail is big news, at least in the metros. With the organised retail industry poised for exponential growth, th... Read More >>
June 24, 2005 | By Ramu Ramanathan
The breaking news from Positive Packaging Industries Limited is the Group’s decision to set up a flexible packaging manufacturing unit in Lagos, Nigeria. According to R Krishnamurthy, ... Read More >>
June 02, 2005 | By Ramu Ramanathan
Parksons Packaging, one of the fast growing board packaging converters in India, inaugurated its third 6-colour plus coater press, a KBA Rapida 105 41-inch six-colour sheetfed UV press... Read More >>
May 16, 2005 | By Ramu Ramanathan
In late January, we drove the 60 kilometres from Pune to Kurkumbh in Maharashtra’s Baramati district with Milind Bhole, President of Parakh Foods Limited’s Plastics Division, at the ti... Read More >>
May 07, 2005
Pisec 05, the international conference and exhibition for the brand protection, product authentication, document security and RFID industries, took place in the last week of April in V... Read More >>
May 02, 2005
Flexo (India) Graphics together with its UK partner FlexFoil Graphics Limited has installed new Mark Andy LP3000 at Shore To Shore’s press in Colombo, Sri Lanka. FIG has installe... Read More >>
April 30, 2005 | By B S Kampani
In 2003, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a mass recall of the cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor. The recall, triggered by the discovery of counterfeits, affected mo... Read More >>
April 27, 2005
Gravure is way ahead of flexo in India thus far. Five to ten electronic engravers for gravure cylinder making are imported each year while thus far there is a total of only two d... Read More >>
April 18, 2005
On April 12, 2005, Essel Propack, the speciality packaging company promoted by the Indian Essel group and the world’s largest manufacturer of laminated tubes, announced its 100 per cen... Read More >>
April 16, 2005
The last we heard there were more than 30 exhibitors from India who plan to show international packaging professionals their capabilities at this years interpack. Leading board-packagi... Read More >>
April 16, 2005
Radio frequency identification (RFID), the contactless identification technology applicable to the entire retail supply chain, is creating a buzz. A special presentation, organised by ... Read More >>
April 09, 2005
Creed Engineers organised a series of seminars on flexo platemaking around the country starting in Delhi on 17 March. The chief guest on the evening was Bhawnesh Thukral, the cur... Read More >>
March 18, 2005
While acknowledging some nagging imperfections of RFID, label making giant Avery Dennison is forging ahead with an aggressive commitment to develop of the technology with US$ 35 milli... Read More >>
February 09, 2005 | By Naresh Khanna and Jaya Pathak
The label industry is both complex and dynamic. It is fast growing, and in every country and region it is using several technologies side by side that are competing to add more value a... Read More >>
January 27, 2005
Our recent visit to Acuprint and Sai Metaplast in Taloja just about 55 kilometres from Mumbai was our first to these units that are a part of Enpac (India) Private Limited. Enpac (Indi... Read More >>
January 12, 2005
The India Label Show at Pragati Maidan from 3-6 December was a success. This is not said lightly in an environment that has many shows and events that merit only a poor or middling rat... Read More >>