January 2014

Contribution of Rs one crore to Uttarakhand and Rs 50 lakh to Bihar for relief and rehabilitations MS Rana, chairman and managing director, Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Ltd presented a cheque of Rs one crore to Vijay…

- Heidelberg Speedmaster – the perfect upgrades to printing set-ups across the country Onyx Printers, Bengaluru installs Heidelberg Speedmaster SX-74 four-colour press: In a latest move, SN Offset printers of Aluva, Kerala, has installed…

Under the administrative control of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Govt. of India, Indian Institute of Packaging (IIP) is all set to offer courses of a 4-year B.Tech, followed by an M.Tech, a research programme and Ph.D. “I must…

Thailand-based Edale Asia Pacific are starting the new year with the installation of a new six colour, 350mm wide FL-3 label and flexible packaging machine to a company in Malaysia; the sale of which was a direct result from the Labelexpo…

Manipal Technologies Ltd and Utility Printpack Pvt Ltd are merging their packaging businesses to form Manipal Utility Packaging Solutions Pvt Ltd (MUPL), which will have manufacturing operations in Manipal, Ahmedabad and Chennai. Speaking…

Flexography, an area not completely understood but with a lot of scope for growth, has become the paying market for a well known duo - Bharath & Chidambaram in Chennai – finds out D Ramalingam from P&P. Flexo has the scope for…

The 16th edition of National Packaging Exhibition & Conference “INDPACK 2014” successfully held from January 16-18, 2014 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. The chief guest for the inaugural function was Anita Agnihotri, IAS, special…

Ministry of Commerce and Industry has sanctioned Rs 5 crore for setting up of Indian Institute of Packaging centre at Guwahati in the current five year plan. To get the first hand view, Tarun Gogoi, chief minister Assam interacted with the…

The 9th edition of PAMEX was successfully held from November 14- 17, 2013 at India Expo Centre and Mart, Greater Noida (NCR). PAMEX is a well-known reputed platform for the printing technology, printing equipment, allied machinery…

Recently at an industry get together, discussing on various topics, someone mentioned the captioned term - ‘New Generation New Machines’ and I actually gave a thought that how precisely that statement fits today. In a moment, it was clear…