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2 weeks ago | 
packagingsouthasia.com | Naresh Khanna
We recently had an opportunity to interview Apoorvshree Chaturvedi, Director – Global Operations, UFlex Group. In our conversation, Chaturvedi, based in London, was forthright about the European film market UFlex serves from its plants in Poland and Hungary.
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2 weeks ago | 
packagingsouthasia.com | Naresh Khanna
The Growth, Automation, Connected, Sustainable, and Responsible Food Processing and Supply Chain Conference is scheduled for 11 and 12 December 2025 at the Greater Noida Expo Center, alongside IPAMA’s second Intrapac exhibition from 10 to 13 December.
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3 weeks ago | 
packagingsouthasia.com | Naresh Khanna
More than a dozen multicolor sheetfed offset presses landed at Indian ports in March 2025. A few of these were 7-color presses with coaters that could only begin installation in April. In addition to the machines that arrived in the last week of March, half a dozen machines arrived in April and are currently under installation.
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3 weeks 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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1 month 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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1 month 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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2 months 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.
