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The new packaging mandate – building value in a circular age

The conversations at the 13th Specialty Films & Flexible Packaging Global Summit made one thing abundantly clear: the packaging industry is no longer debating...

Asepto’s Egypt plant puts global supply-chain agility at the center of its next phase

Asepto, the aseptic liquid packaging business of USD 1.63-billion UFlex, is preparing to start commercial operations at its greenfield facility at Ain Sokhna, Egypt,...

EREMA’s Manfred Hackl – recycling must become a raw-material business

Plastic recycling has proved that it can work. The bigger question now is whether it can work at the scale, quality and economics required...

Food safety begins with the pack – FSSAI calls for stronger packaging compliance

Packaging material manufacturers are set to face greater scrutiny as food safety compliance increasingly extends beyond the food processor to the materials that come...

The next decade of packaging will demand more than scale

For Navanit Narayan, whole-time director and CEO of Haldia Petrochemicals, the packaging industry is approaching a point where conventional measures of growth and scale...

Balrampur Chini Mills bets on BOPLA for India’s bio-based packaging future

India’s flexible packaging industry is looking for alternatives that can balance performance with improved end-of-life outcomes. For Balrampur Chini Mills, that conversation begins much...

Echaar targets short-run opportunity with Flexocompact CI flexo

The economics of flexible packaging are changing, particularly at the shorter end of the run-length spectrum. For converters handling short and ultra-short production runs...

Pratip Samanta on AI, openness and the future of machine automation

In this interview with The Packman, Pratip Samanta, regional managing director – Southern & Eastern Asia, ABB Machine Automation Division (B&R Industrial Automation) explains...

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Asia’s first DuPont Cyrel 3000 Modular InLiner System at Noida’s Afflatus

India’s leading gravure cylinder manufacturer, Afflatus Gravure, has diversified to flexography recently. The company’s new state-of-the-art flexo division at its Noida plant is powered...

Optimism amidst challenges – Sanjay Gupta’s insights on bio-plastics revolution

During his presentation at the 10th Speciality Films & Flexible Packaging Global Summit 2023 in Mumbai, Sanjay Gupta, senior vice president – corporate procurement...

DS Group rethinks FMCG packaging for the era of quick commerce

In an exclusive interaction with The Packman magazine, Sanjay Gupta, senior vice president – corporate procurement and packaging development at DS Group, discusses how...

ElitePlus 2025 – How PepsiCo is redefining food packaging for a greener future

At the ElitePlus 2025 Conference held in Mumbai, Robert Cotton, R&D director – packaging sustainable materials at PepsiCo, took the stage to shed light...

Packaging is the future and printers should look for niche solutions” – Ranesh Bajaj

As we move ever closer to a new year, it’s time to ask what kinds of trends, priorities and disruptive innovations we can expect...