G7 Summit in Chicago — “Why aren’t Indian packaging companies getting...
At the recent G7 Summit at Graph Expo in Chicago there was a panel at which the international affiliates from China, India, Korea and Mexico took part. In the audience, an American importer of goods...
View ArticleGrowth and sustainability in book distribution and printing
The publishing and printing industry in India is healthy and kicking although in many respects it may be outgrowing its initial period of unorganized and fragmented growth. There is every sign that the...
View ArticleA banner year for new multicolor presses
The current financial year will see the installation of anywhere from 55 to 65 brand new sheetfed offset presses in the country. This is a huge increase from the previous year’s installations and...
View Article7 things to know about G7 and protecting brand integrity
Standardization and consumer product packaging Whether you’re a printer or a brand manager, color consistency is non-negotiable. You need to be sure your prints are depicted accurately across multiple...
View ArticleIDEAlliance India to hold G7 meetings in Delhi and Mumbai on 14 and 17...
Brand owners and packaging converters to discuss standardization The Printpack exhibition in February 2015 will be an unprecedented event not only because of the quality of the products on the...
View ArticleBrand owners please invest in the quality and integrity of your packaging
Begin with technical and social audits and the standardization of your packaging suppliers! Major consumer products companies in India have been resorting to a new kind of cyber crime – reverse...
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BIS MSD6 committee meets with ICC and TC130 members at Printpack India
AIFMP and IPAMA take part in color standards for print briefing On the afternoon of 11 February 2015, the MSD6 committee of the Bureau of Indian Standards had an opportunity to meet and interact with...
View Article“Good governance is based on credibility, not a willing suspension of...
Numerology and innumeracy Because of the interviews of printers and converters conducted by IppStar’s research team in the past two years, we never believed that the GDP growth was as bad as 4.7%. For...
View ArticleGrowth in volumes, price pressure and significant capacity build-up
The packaging and label industry in India in FY 14-15 and FY 15-16 An informal survey of the Indian packaging and label industry indicates that the financial year from 1 April 2014 to 31 March 2015 was...
View ArticlePackaging South Asia in its ninth year of publication
Brand owners appreciate information quality and knowledge sharing A recent IppStar survey of global brand owners in India who receive the monthly B2B magazine Packaging South Asia, revealed that an...
View ArticleThe Drinkable Book
Green innovations with paper and board Silver has been known to be antimicrobial since antiquity when water was stored in silver jugs to kill bacteria. More recently, silver nanoparticles are used in...
View ArticleThe Noodle Muddle
Our industry leaders need to lead In its issue dated 20 June 2015, The Economic and Political Weekly wrote in its editorial ‘The Noodle Muddle’ in part: “The Maggi Noodles controversy has triggered a...
View ArticleBook printing exports struggle – is consolidation the answer?
Normally we take whatever anyone says about the economy with a grain of salt. We try to avoid politically colored enthusiasm and critiques and depend instead on both published and unpublished data. We...
View ArticleSpectacle, information, relief, knowledge or amnesia?
Senior journalist and founding editor of The Wire, Siddharth Varadarajan attempted to address the enormous challenge faced by South Asian governments, civil society and media in meaningfully responding...
View ArticleAIP acquires Goss International from Shanghai Electric
American Industrial Partners (AIP), a middle-market private equity firm focussed on acquiring and improving North American-headquartered industrial businesses, has completed the acquisition of Goss...
View ArticleResearch and democracy
I am thrilled to have been awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2015. I am even more thrilled that the Nobel committee highlighted the work that my...
View ArticleEnvironment is a bigger challenge than demand
The print and packaging industry (according to our own back of the envelope survey) is not yet experiencing any significant upward take-off in demand. However, capital investments continue, and are as...
View ArticleSage advice from Ashok Goel of Essel Propack
Tushar Bhotica of Shri Arun Packaging and a leading member of the Bombay Master Printers Association has been working on setting up a special interest networking group amongst its carton producing...
View ArticleNikkei manufacturing, services and composite PMI index bounces back in July
In July both the Nikkei India purchasing managers indices – manufacturing and services bounced back up from June as did the composite index. The Nikkei India manufacturing PMI rebounded to a six month...
View ArticlePackaging South Asia’s increasingly first-hand global coverage
The winter months are usually the hottest as far as exhibitions and trade fairs are considered in the printing and packaging industry and it is turning out to be no different this year. Printers and...
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