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4 days ago | 
packagingsouthasia.com | Naresh Khanna
We recently met Surya Food & Agro and Surya Global Films’ director Shekhar Agarwal, who has led the group’s establishment of the Surya Global Flexi Films plant in YEIDA, just a couple of kilometers from the new airport just south of Greater Noida.
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2 weeks ago | 
packagingsouthasia.com | Naresh Khanna
A fire apparently started at around 1:00 AM on 21 May 2025 at the JPFL Films’ plant at Mundhegaon in Nashik district, Maharashtra. What the press has desribed as a massive fire is still raging a day and a half later. Unlike the fire that occurred on 1 January 2023 when three persons were reported to have died, thus far as per the report by NDTV three employees are injured in the past two days.
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3 weeks ago | 
indianprinterpublisher.com | Naresh Khanna
On the evening of 12 May 2025, India’s multilingual news website and video channel Thewire.in celebrated its tenth anniversary at Jawahar Bhavan in Delhi. Founder-editor Siddharth Varadarajan, editor Seema Chisti, and several team members spoke of the news organization’s challenging but largely fulfilling experience over the past decade and its inclusive and democratic process.
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1 month ago | 
packagingsouthasia.com | Naresh Khanna
Mumbai headquartered Mehta Flex, an innovator in producing co-extruded blown films and one of the country’s leading converters, installed its seventh Bobst CI flexo press in the first quarter of this year at its flexible packaging plant in Daman.
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1 month ago | 
packagingsouthasia.com | Naresh Khanna
Mumbai headquartered Mehta Flex, an innovator in producing co-extruded blown films and one of the country’s leading converters, installed its seventh Bobst CI flexo press in the first quarter of this year at its flexible packaging plant in Daman.
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1 month ago | 
packagingsouthasia.com | Naresh Khanna
Chenga Reddy of Citrus Packaging Solutions recently visited the Spande factory in Shanghai to familiarize himself with Spande’s flexo technology, and there he signed for a press that will be delivered to the company’s plant in the last quarter of 2025. The press that he has purchased will be on display and demonstrated live at Labelexpo Europe in Barcelona in September – followed by shipment to India and installation at Citrus in Hyderabad.
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1 month ago | 
packagingsouthasia.com | Naresh Khanna
Echaar Equipments is a hard-core Indian engineering company with experience in several critical sectors as a supplier of precision components and assemblies. Several years ago, in its factories outside Mumbai, it decided to manufacture CI flexo presses for the flexible packaging industry. This was a challenging proposition that several companies have attempted in recent years, mostly with indifferent results.
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1 month ago | 
packagingsouthasia.com | Naresh Khanna
Echaar Equipments is a hard-core Indian engineering company with experience in several critical sectors as a supplier of precision components and equipment for sectors such as nuclear, defence, wind energy, oil and gas as steel manufacturing. Several years ago, in its factories outside Mumbai, it decided to manufacture CI flexo presses for the flexible packaging industry. This was a challenging proposition that several companies have attempted in recent years, mostly with indifferent results.
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1 month ago | 
packagingsouthasia.com | Naresh Khanna
Pune, India, 24 April 2025 — Avery Dennison the global materials science and digital identification solutions company, has announced the opening of its first radio-frequency identification (RFID) inlays and labels production site in India. Located in Pune, the plant’s opening marks a pivotal step in the company’s long-term commitment to supporting RFID technology growth in South Asia under the ‘Make in India’ initiative. The official opening date was 23 April 2025.
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1 month ago | 
packagingsouthasia.com | Naresh Khanna
HBD Packaging’s Rajiv Bhargava felt compelled to add carton printing capacity as soon as possible, despite the market being highly competitive with thin margins. K&B has committed to delivering the press in a four-month time frame to HBD’s Greater Noida plant, and it should arrive in time and be commissioned for the annual holiday season peak demand for cartons.
