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Indian packaging industry reeling under unprecedented RM cost increase

Globally, with the advent of COVID pandemic, demand for the manufacturing sector plummeted drastically, chemicals being no different faced the dearth in demand. Industry...

Is vinyl printing ink market shrinking in India?

The Indian flexible packaging market has seen expeditious growth within the past few years and has estimated potential to grow approximately to a value...

Retail packaging predictions for 2021

Making predictions for the year to come seems a little strange following the unstable nature of events endured over the past 12 months. From...

South Korea’s packaging industry to grow at 1.3% CAGR through 2024, says GlobalData

The packaging industry in South Korea is expected to reach 51.7 billion units in 2024, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of...

Yansefu India invests in developing bio-based products to meet sustainability challenges

Mahan Hazarika: What is the prospect of the Indian packaging ink sector? What kind of opportunities do you see in the coming years? JK Sharma:...

Lorytex strikes packaging gold with flexo and ECG

“We’re just trying to make flexo a little better every day,” says Roberto Dolinsky, managing director of Lorytex. The company has just achieved a...

UFlex Cylinders Business focuses on innovation and operational excellence

UFlex Cylinders Business is going through a solid transformation driven by innovations and unprecedented product quality. “We have been trying to move the needle...

India bans use of toluene in food packaging inks

BIS finally published the long awaited revision of the Indian standard IS 15945 in July 2020. The major highlight of the revised standard IS...

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Plastics – a global saviour in COVID-19 pandemic

Year 2020 will remain etched in the history for a virtual global war fought between humankind and a tiny virus. Economies have crashed, GDPs...

The ice cream cone company

Homemade Baker’s (India) Ltd. in Sonepat is one of the largest ice cream cone manufacturers in the country producing 3 million cones every day....

Chemical recycling – the road ahead for circular polymers

As the world grapples with the mounting challenge of plastic waste, the recycling landscape is undergoing a transformation. While mechanical recycling has long been...

Considering water-based printing ink technology in the wake of high-rising solvent price

The Indian printing ink industry pertaining to flexible packaging is going through a very tough time. Unfortunately, the much-anticipated normalization in both raw material...

Nitrosamine – A big no for printing inks for food and pharma packaging

In 2019, FSSAI revised packaging regulations in India and mandated the use of BIS standard for printing inks called ‘IS 15495: Printing Ink For...