APL Machinery Launches Screen Printing Machine

APL Machinery, the Faridabad-based manufacturer, has recently launched the Atom Flat Screen printing machine, its latest offering in the screen printing segment. Speaking on the new launch, Mukul Chauhan, Senior Product Manager, APL Machinery said, “The Atom’s in-built sensors assists the squeegee with perfect registrations and thus reduces operator skill and dependency.” The machine can…

Sonika Graphics Reduces Production Cost With Param ERP Solution

Sonika Graphics, founded in 2001, vouches for the ERP’s performance, which according to it has provided with solutions that has enabled the company save cost on wastages and appropriate equipment usage, besides correct material selection. “In its three-month performance, the ERP solution has helped us achieve quicker and precise estimates for our packaging jobs, as…

India Gives New Revolutionary Design To Pizza Box

A Mumbai businessman has improved the decades old pizza box to make the food remain fresh. His solution is making sure the Pizza Box packaging has proper ventilation. Bringing a solution to the soggy pizzas, Vinay Mehta decided to improve the design. Sitting at home one day he had a brain wave. With a pen…

Indian Plastics Sector Seeks More Tariffs

The Indian plastics sector is increasingly asking for higher tariffs and more government support against imports, particularly from competitors in Southeast Asia and China, as it copes with the country’s slowest economic growth rates in a decade. One of the country’s largest polymer trade associations, the All India Plastics Manufacturers’ Association, for example, used public…

Packaged Milk To Outsell Loose Milk In Developing Countries In 2014

Tetra Pak Dairy Index forecasts that India and China will drive the global consumption of liquid diary products (LDP), which is set to rise by 30% to 350 billion litres by 2020. LDP includes white milk and other liquid dairy products such as flavoured milk, drinking yoghurt, sweetened condensed milk, lactic acid drinks, baby and…

Packaging Industry Turnover To Reach $ 32 Billion

The total turnover of India’s packaging industry, which is growing at about 15 per cent, is expected to touch USD 32 billion by 2020 on increasing demand. “Indian packaging industry is growing at the rate of 13-15 per cent annually. The total turnover of the industry is about USD 24.6 billion. It is expected that…

Domino Printing Introduces Off-shelf Pallet Labeller

The inkjet and laser printing specialist Domino Printing Sciences has added the M220 off-shelf pallet labeller to its M-Series range of print and apply labellers. Designed to suit a variety of different applications, the M220 meets tertiary labelling requirements within a diverse range of packaging lines. The labeller features a new tamp head with 180°…

Provin Technos Represents Ryobi MHI Joint Venture In India

Delhi-based Provin Technos has been appointed as a pan-India Indian representative of the Ryobi MHI Graphic Technology (RMGTL), a joint venture between the two Japanese press manufacturing giants, Ryobi and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Printing & Packaging for implementation of business integration in the field of sheetfed offset printing presses. The joint venture is implemented from…

Square Vision Installs Bobst Folder Gluer

Square Vision, the Haridwar-based pharma packaging print company,  has installed Bobst Ambition folder gluer aiming to further improve on its quality parameters and interrupted production timelines. Arvind Singhal, Founder Director, Square Vision India, said, “We already have two folder gluers from a Bengaluru-based manufacturer but to ensure quality, and fast and accurate production we opted for…

HP Imposes Ban On Use Of Non-Biodegradable Material For Food Packaging

The Himachal Pradesh High Court vacated the stay on the state government’s notification dated June 26, 2013  and directed it to implement the notification banning the storage, supply, sale and entry of non-essential food items packaged in plastic and non-biodegradable material with effect from January 26, 2014. This excludes packaged and mineral drinking water. The…