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This issue of Packaging South Asia Online is to bring to your notice the TAPPI Flexible packaging symposium which is going on in Delhi after having pulled in a varied and quality crowd in Mumbai despite the cyclone warning. Important happenings in China, with BALL Corporation, manroland and Gerresheimer, and Agfa with new products. To know more read on, Packaging South Asia Online the newsletter that keeps you informed.

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Make sure you check www.packagingsouthasia.com every day as we keep you up to date with the latest news as it happens. Please also have a look at the tentative program of the IPP XII Conference in Mumbai on 19 December 2009 organised by IppStar jointly with the Mumbai Mudrak Sangh. The IPP Conference this year addresses, Marketing Strategies for Direct Mail, Transpromo and Digital Printing.

This conference is actually aimed not at the packaging pros per se but at the marketing and communications guys in your company. It is about how new technologies can allow you to personalise communication. Of course personalised digital labels are being produced. Several years ago we received white wine from manroland’s own vineyards, with labels bearing our own name!

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Till next week,
Naresh Khanna editor@ippgroup.in