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1 week 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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2 weeks 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 weeks 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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2 weeks 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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3 weeks 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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3 weeks 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.
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3 weeks ago | 
packagingsouthasia.com | Naresh Khanna
As the world unites to celebrate Earth Day 2025, on 22 April, the UFlex the Indian global flexible packaging conglomerate, reiterated its commitment to sustainability, innovation, and environmental responsibility. With growing concerns over climate change and environmental degradation, the company continues to invest in developing eco-friendly packaging solutions and promoting recycling and waste management awareness.
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3 weeks ago | 
indianprinterpublisher.com | Naresh Khanna
It is no secret that the printing industry is one of the most vibrant in the country, although it is fragmented and has many small and medium players, and a few that are large. By large commercial print businesses, I mean those with turnovers greater than Rs 500 crore (US$ 60 million). Nevertheless, a few of our substantial book printers and book print exporters have reached the large category – at least a couple are listed on the stock exchange.
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1 month ago | 
packagingsouthasia.com | Naresh Khanna
The packaging and label industry in India continues to grow as packed and labeled products in numerous types of containers, formats, and sizes multiply. Since food from agriculture to consumer is perhaps 20 to 25% of the country’s GDP, it tends to dominate the packaging industry as well. Packaging increasingly defines the demographic that a food product is aimed at. Regional tastes, marketing campaigns, and value can be conveyed by the packaging.
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1 month ago | 
packagingsouthasia.com | Naresh Khanna
The Flint Group’s CEO Pepyn Dinandt visited the company’s several ink plants on the outskirts of Vadodara in mid-February. Dinandt was in India to inaugurate the company’s new R&D laboratory at the Lamdapura flexible packaging ink plant which is 10 kilometers from its new plant in Savli. In the two-day company celebration, the London-based CEO took the time to tour all the Flint plants and to meet all the employee teams that had arrived from across the country.
