The fourth edition of ProPak India commences today. The three-day event to take place at Bangalore International Exhibition Centre (BIEC) with an aim to create a platform for market trends, investments, and industry networking through product exchange, conferences, seminars, and technical workshops offering sustainable solutions for the country's enterprises.
Shrishti Bhat is a 23-year-old working at Wolves Creata, an Ahmedabad-based creative and advertising agency, who is constantly juggling between a corporate work culture and a disturbed sleep cycle
On 27 August, the Central University of Haryana (CUH) hosted a hybrid seminar which focussed on the new areas of print applications. The one-day seminar was organised by the department of printing and packaging technology, School of Engineering & Technology at CUH.
ElitePlus Business Services is organising the 9th edition of the Speciality films and flexible packaging global summit. The two day conference with the theme - Sustainable Reincarnation - is scheduled for on 5 and 6 September at the Sahara Star hotel in Mumbai.
Following the ban on single-use plastic on 1 July, the Maharashtra government has decided to ban plastic-coated laminated goods. But have things changed on the ground? Janhavi Sisodia reports.
Windmoller & Holscher CEO, Peter Steinbeck takes on modern day packaging during the 9th edition of Specialty Films and Flexible Packaging global summit on 5 September in Sahara Star.
Sudhir Sitapati from Godrej Consumer Group Limited (GCPL) spoke about the importance of constant innovation, and how it is key for business growth. He was delivering a keynote address at the 9th edition of the Speciality Films and Flexible Packaging Global summit on 5 September at the Sahara Star in Mumbai.
VDMA and 13 member firms will demonstrate the most advanced circular economy technology in the plastics sector at K 2022 from 19 to 25 October.
RS Sodhi, managing director of GCMMF of Amul highlighted the role of plastic in the growth of Amul and the dairy industry. During his keynote address at the 9th edition of the Speciality Films and Flexible Packaging Global summit on 5 September at the Sahara Star in Mumbai, he spoke about the importance of LDPE pouches and how the sustainability has been hijacked by activists.
Aptar Food + Beverage, a global leader in consumer product dispensing and active material science solutions has announced its participation in Drinktec, the world's leading trade fair for the beverage and liquid food industries, which will be held 12-16 September in Germany.
A new study by Smithers finds that the market will experience a growth of 9.5% through 2027, yielding a total value of USD 2.5 billion in that year.
A brand-new market study from Smithers – The Future of Refillable and Reusable Packaging to 2027 - states that the market will reach USD42 billion in 2022, up from USD35.1 billion in 2017. As the industry looks to new concepts to realise true circularity in packaging, Smithers forecasts future growth at 5% year-on-year reaching a value of USD53.5 billion in 2027.
In 2020, Vikram Printers forayed into the packaging industry in its new avatar Ugar Labels. It’s only been two years, but the brand awareness exercise boosts Ugar’s reputation and raises its profile. Janhavi Sisodia talks to Mandar Ugar
On 1 July, India banned single-use plastic ranging from straws to cigarette packets to combat the country's pollution crisis. Up to 34 states and UTs have issued directives to enact full or partial bans on single-use plastic products.
On 28 June, Epson India along with Venus Infotech, Felix Schoeller and Impressions conducted a workshop for sublimation product dealers in Mumbai. After more than two years dominated by virtual alternatives, business decision-makers really need the energy and connections that only live workshops enable.
India began its plastic ban journey on 1 July. The ban on the manufacture, import, stocking, distribution, sale, and use of identified single-use plastic items, which have low utility and high littering potential, was visible all across the country
After a two-day meeting of the GST Council that concluded in Chandigarh on 29 June, Nirmala Sitharaman announced several tax rate changes. The GST rate changes on a large number of goods and services will be effective from 18 July.
From 1 July, India imposed a ban on manufacturing, importing, stocking, distribution, sale, and use of identified single-use plastic (SUP) items. As per the ministry of environment, forest and climate change these include low utility and high littering potential, all across the country.
Artwork Flow, Bizongo’s SaaS platform has announced 100% quarter-on-quarter customer growth in the financial year of 2022. The cloud-based packaging and labelling artwork management solution focuses on textiles, apparel, packaging and other contract manufacturing goods.
The German multinational chemical and consumer goods company, Henkel has set an ambitious sustainability target for 2025. The brand is set to cut off half as much virgin plastic from fossil sources in its consumer products packaging while increasing the proportion of recycled plastic to more than 30 per cent.
Siegwerk offers validated solutions for a safe and economic deinking of energy-cured ink systems that have been so far considered as non - deinkable. Its UV - and water-based deinking primers for labels and sleeves. These sets new norms to drive deinking as an industry standard and further improves recyclability & circularity of plastic packaging.
SGO, the packaging repro services arm of the Chennai-headquartered pre-media training firm YesGo which opened an office in the UK in 2021 has it sets its sights on growing its business in Europe through a partnership with the Solutioo Group in Italy.
Bizongo has brought a change to the smart proofing packaging industry with its latest AI-based tool named Artwork Flow. This tool will be used as label proofing in compliance to FSSAI standards.