PackPlus 2009 Preview (2)

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The second part of our PackPlus Preview includes exhibitors who have confirmed their participation and those who have interesting new products on show. Packplus will take place at New Delhi’s Pragati Maidan from 8 to 11 July, 2009. Concurrently with the exhibition, a PackAge Conference is scheduled for 9-10 July at the Habitat Centre in New Delhi, under the theme “Packaging for Changing Markets.”

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Furthermore, ippStar is organising an important career development and human resources discussion on the PackPlus floor in Hall 11. The idea of the event is to give the packaging industry a joint human resource platform to project itself as a large and fast growing high technology area with enormous opportunities for the best young people. HR managers in packaging and related companies and executive level personnel are asked to provide their input.

PackPlus 2009 will be divided over four zones, i.e., Packaging, Converting, Processing, and Supply Chain. Anil Arora of the organising committee explains: “As technologies evolve at a furious pace and processes get automated and synchronised, a collaborative environment becomes a necessity. A visitor may be a specialist in just one segment but has a more than peripheral interest in the entire supply chain. This is the rationale to bring the various segments onto one platform.” There will be special pavilions for exhibitors from China and Taiwan. Companies from these countries will include AIM, Baofeng, Dase-Sing, Foshan, Gangzhou, Homeease, Hsing Wei, Hubei Jingshan, Nantai and others. NPES, the US Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing and Converting Technologies, will also have a stand at the show.

Company Highlights

A&A Labels – Hall 13 Stand 29
A&A Labels will be showcasing samples of their self-adhesive labels, stickers, barcode labels, pharmaceutical and cosmetics labels, tags, boarding passes and cups. The company has a manufacturing site in New Delhi.

Ajanta Packaging – Hall 12 Stand 57
Ajanta Packaging is one of the leading manufacturers and exporters of high quality labels like printed labels, advertising labels, stickers, duplex cartons, posters, playing cards and other publicity materials. It uses waterless offset technology and has Hindustan Unilever, Dabur and Reckitt Benckiser among its customers.

At the show, they will display pressure sensitive labels, cosmetic and home appliances labels, stickers, duplex cartons, PP/PET cartons, posters, playing cards, brochures and other publicity materials.

Advanced Graphic Systems – Hall 11 Stand 85
AGS India are showcasing a system called Intellitrax, which is the auto scanning spectrodensitometer for the automated measurement of Control Strip, on the sheet during actual printing. This device gives an operator complete information about the sheet in terms of the individual Ink Key Zones, which ultimately helps the operator to do a faster correction back on the press with lesser wastage. Said Vishnu Kamat of AGS, "We currently have 7 installations in India and expect more in the near future. Users of Intellitrax are a mix of commercial printers, packaging printers and newspapers".

Alcan India – Hall 11 Stand 166
Alcan India based in Haridwar and Gurgaon, manufactures flexible laminates for the food, household and personal care industries. Its operations include extrusion, gravure printing, and solvent less and solvent based lamination. It will be showcasing flexible roll stock material, BIBs, retort pouches, profile pouches and lidding materials.

ATE Enterprises Pvt Ltd – Hall 11 Stand 174
ATE Enterprises from Mumbai, part of the ATE Group, has been established in 1939 and is specialised in textile engineering and related printing and packaging solutions. Next to textile converting technologies and gravure, flexo and offset presses, the company provides liquid transfer and waste water treatment technologies under the generic Flow Technology and Clean Technology, respectively. Products on display include the following: Ake Boose (Sweden) chamber doctor blades for flexo presses; Eltex Electrostatik (Germany) electrostatic solutions for the printing, flexible packaging and ink manufacturing industries; Erhardt + Leimer (Ahmedabad) web handling systems for the printing and flexible packaging industries; Eco Axis (Pune) automatic colour registration control systems for printing presses; MDC Max Deatwyler (Switzerland) doctor blades and printing cylinder engraving equipment; Ameco Raster (UK) proofing presses for gravure cylinders and flexo plates; Scantech (France) thickness measurement solutions for the film manufacturing, flexible packaging, petrochemical and pharma industries; NIRA (Italy) LEL monitoring, air circulation systems and residual solvent analysers for the printing and the flexible packaging industries; and OFRU (Germany) solvent recovery plants for the printing and flexible packaging industries.

Apex Roto Tech Industries – Hall 11 Stand 160
New Delhi-based Apex Roto Tech Industries are manufacturers of label printing and die cutting machines, slitters/rewinders, turret winders for long run roll-to-roll jobs, and lid sealing machines.

The company will be showing a label printing and die cutting machine for gum labels, barcode labels and pharmaceutical labels.

Atlas Industrial Corporation – Hall 11 Stand 81
Atlas will be showing a Zhongtai Laser Reflection Embossing machine, YUE Fai high speed precision roll to roll screen printing machine, Juisun semi-automatic screen printing machine, automatic round bottle printing machine and UV dryers. Atlas offers a wide range of printing and packaging related machinery, and partners with a number of leading brands from China and Taiwan, specialising in screen printing machinery for almost every conceivable application.

Atlas introduced in India the Sky Hill roll to roll, Juisun 5 colour sheet fed, Key Well large format four post and clam-shell, and Hanky small and medium size pneumatic screen printing machines. It also introduced a range of Wanjie label printing devices and narrow web flexo presses, as well as embossing systems.

Basawa Technologies Ltd  – Hall 13 Stand 60
Basawa Technologies Ltd is a solution provider in the field of bar coding technology and is the agent for Argox, Taiwan Semiconductor Ltd, Honeywell, Motorola Inc, Zebra Technologies Europe Ltd, Fametech Inc, and United Electronics Company Ltd. It will be showcasing the Argox range of barcode scanners, barcode printers and barcode portable data terminals.

Bosch Packaging Technology – Hall 13 Stand 196
Bosch is one of the world’s leading producers of end-user packaging machines. At the show, they will be showing two new bagging systems. The SVE 2515 is a low-cost high-performance continuous motion bag forming, filling and closing system that delivers 30 to 50 percent higher output than intermittent motion systems. It uses servo technology throughout. The SVI is a new servo-based intermittent motion bagging system that delivers better performance than their earlier developments.

Creed Engineers – Hall 11 Stand 185
Creed Engineers is the Indian representative for Rotatek, AB Graphics, Kodak, Schober, Aquaflex, Omega, Petrel Security Inks and Jet. Equipment on display includes Kodak’s proof approval systems, AB Graphics’ inspection system for labels and cartons, Schober’s insertion module for RFID tags, and Security Software from Nautilus incorporating features like micro-text and hidden images. Creed will also be launching new security inks from Petrel: conductive inks, OVI inks, bichromic thermochromic inks and UV invisible inks.

Domino Printech India Pvt Ltd – Hall 12 Stand 56
Domino Printech India Pvt Ltd, a fully owned subsidiary of Domino Printing Sciences Plc, Cambridge, UK, provides coding and marking solutions through inkjet, laser and thermal transfer. The company caters to the printing requirement of variable data like batch number, lot number, MRP, MFD, date of expiry, logo etc. on products pursuant to quality and/or legislative requirements. Domino systems can print on a variety of substrates from paper to plastic, board, wood, glass, foil or metal. The Continuous Ink Jet Printer Model A200 + from the company is one of the fastest and largest selling industrial printers in India. Other than inkjets, the company also provides laser printers, thermal transfer overprinters and print & apply labelling machines. Domino’s customer base includes names like Pepsi, Nestle, Cadbury, Coca Cola, Johnson & Johnson, United Spirits, ITC, Proctor & Gamble, Hindustan Unilever, Pernod Ricard, Dabur, Bambino, Finolex, Moser Baer, Cipla, Ranbaxy, Glaxo and others. Running products on display will be the A 200+ Continuous Inkjet Printer-V Series, the  Thermal Transfer overprinter, the S Series Laser system, the M Series Print Apply Labeling system, and the C-series outer case coder.

Fibre Foils - Hall 12 Stand 54
Fibre Foils, based in Mumbai and part of the Shetron Group, has manufacturing facilities at Khopoli near Mumbai, Manesar in Gurgaon, and Bangalore. It produces cans, fibre drums, paper tubes and cores for the food packaging, pharma, liquor, paper, metal and polyester BOPP industries. It will showcase samples of its composite cans, fibre drums, paper tubes and cores.

Five Star Printing Machinery - Hall 11 Stand 47
Five Star manufactures converting machinery such as semi-automatic hydraulic paper cutting machines, die cutters, paper shredders and corrugated board converting machines. At PackPlus, the company from Amritsar will showcase its three knife trimmer, automatic feeding creasing and perforation machine, fully automatic programmable paper cutting machine, hot foil embossing and die cutting machine, automatic double head stitching machine with chain drive, six head stitching machine with chain drive, and thermal lamination machine.

Flexo Image Graphics - Hall 11 Stand 103
Flexo Image Graphics from New Delhi, with sales offices in Chennai, Mumbai, Sri Lanka and Dubai, is the Indian distributor of Mark Andy (narrow web flexo presses), Brandtjen & Kluge (foil stamping and die cutting equipment), Rotoflex (slitting/rewinding and inspection systems), Stanford, Tools and Production, Baum Folder, Berra and CTC International.

Forbes & Company – Hall 13 Stand 175
New Delhi-based Forbes & Company, a part of the Shapoorji Pallonji Group, is a provider of marking and coding solutions. Forbes is the Indian representative of Linx and Telesis, and will be displaying Linx CIJ printers, Linx thermal transfer coders, Linx large character printers, and Telesis-Bradma CO2 Laser Printers.

Fujiyusoki Kogyo Company - Hall 13 Stand 58
Fujiyusoki Kogyo based in Navi Mumbai has been developing, supplying and improving palletising technology for almost 40 years. The company will display its robot EC 201, hand gripper Unigripper Vacuum Hand, roller conveyor, pickup conveyor, and palletisers.

Ganik Plastics – Hall 11 Stand 37
Ganik Plastics will exhibit PVC strip curtains, POF shrink film, blister film, stretch film and strapping rolls. The company’s Atul Agarwal told us: “Everything is in place but we need visitors there because it’s clear we’re spending money and time at this exhibition.”

Genius Flexo Machinery Pvt Ltd – Hall 11 Stand 75
Genius is exclusive distributor in India and neighboring countries for MPS flexo presses for the label, flexible packaging, carton board segments. The company will showcase magnetic flexible dies, flexible dies for inline offset cutting, EyeC inline and offline inspection systems for measuring embossed braille, barcodes, pharma codes, Pantone shades, text and Delta E values. It will also provide details on the new MPS E-Print label press as well as press tooling from Kocher-Beck and anilox roller and sleeves technology from Pamarco, water cooled UV curing systems from UV Doctors, and slitter/rewinders from Arpeco.

Global Engineering Corporation – Hall 11 Stand 84
Global Engineering Corporation will be displaying their Bursting Strength Tester, Box Compression Strength Tester, Tear Tester, Tensile Tester, Crust Tester, Grammage Tester, Cobb Tester, Moisture Meter, and Puncture Resistance Tester. The company’s MK Agarwal said, “We will display something very special for a very good price. From our point of view, we need at least 100 potential queries.”

Global Marketing Empire – Hall 13 Stand 151
Global Marketing Empire will showcase food and beverages processing and packaging machines. The company’s Vikas Sharma told us, “We are seeking more business through these exhibitions.”

Hampri Impex (P) Ltd – Hall 11 Stand 105
Pritpal Singh of Hampri Impex told us, “We will be there with our blade bending machine, blade notching machine, blade lipping machine, all kinds of blades for die cutting, cutting, creasing, perforation and other applications, and punches and butterflies for various applications.”

Hassia Packaging Machinery Pvt Ltd – Hall 12 Stand 25
Hassia developed a new line of high-speed VFFS machines that can deliver up to 130 filled bags per minute. They have established that, in order to overcome throughput and speed limitations on integrating filling/sealing/film transport systems, the best way out is to have a twin lane VFFS machine running two individual input reels. They will be demonstrating this line at the show. The line can use a variety of filling/dosing systems for different kinds of products; these will also be displayed. The line has the capability of running only one lane in case of any problems/maintenance on the second lane.

Honeywell – Hall 12 Stand 28
Honeywell Scanning and Mobility is a manufacturer of high-performance image- and laser-based data collection hardware, including rugged mobile computers and bar code scanners. Their product portfolio presented at the show includes mobility computers, pda’s, scanners, software, services and professional solutions that enable customers in the AIDC segment to manage data and assets.

ippStar careers4u – Hall 11 Stand 49
ippStar, part of the IPP Group, ippStar provides consultancy, conference, and human resource services to the industry as well as a weekly employment newsletter. ippStar will be organising an important career development and human resources discussion on the PackPlus floor in Hall 11. The idea of the event is to give the packaging industry a joint human resource platform to project itself as a large and fast growing high technology area with enormous opportunities for the best young people. HR managers in packaging and related companies and executive level personnel are asked to provide their input.

Jet Inks – Hall 13 Stand 188
Jet Inks is a subsidiary of T&B International, and specialises in support for industrial inkjet printers. The company is a specialist service provider for Domino, Video Jet, Willet, Imaje, Citronix and Linx. Jet Inks expects a good response this time similar to last year’s PackPlus. Products on Display: ink, additives, washout solvents and spares for industrial inkjet printers.

Kodak India – Hall 11 Stand 136
Kodak will be showing its entire award-winning range of Flexcel NX products which comprise the Flexcel Trendsetter NX, the Flexcel NX laminator and Flexcel NX TIL and a range of photopolymer flexo plates. These systems provide the complete prepress and plate-making facilities for flexographic printing. In addition to its own displays, Kodak’s agent Creed Engineers will be displaying its proof approval systems and Versamark workflow solutions.

Kohli Graphic Systems – Hall 11 Stand 25
Kohli Graphic Systems considers the PackPlus show too small for demonstrating all their equipment and therefore will only have an information booth at the show, where they will mainly demonstrate the Esko ArtPro software. Kohli Graphic Systems is the Indian representative of Hell Gravure Systems for electronic gravure cylinder engraving machines; Hasper Walter for a complete galvanic line of gravure cylinders; Esko Artwork for packaging prepress software; Fujifilm for violet & thermal CtP Plates and other consumables; and ECRM for CtP devices.

Kunal Enterprise – Hall 11 Stand 08
Kunal Enterprise, the Indian agent of Sakurai, is based in Mumbai and will be present will documentation on the following products: Sakurai (Japan) fully automatic cylinder screen printing press; Kang Yung (Taiwan) various models of semi-automatic screen printing machines, UV, IR, hot air and wicket dryers, and various screen printing prepress and press developments; Demak (Italy) Doming and Kromex technologies; Toppy (Italy) mobile pile turner machines; and 3D lenticular software as well as complete 3D solutions.

Label Planet – Hall 11 Stand 172
Label Planet represents a wide range of international manufacturers of narrow-web label equipement such as Focus, Orthotec, Cartes, Agria, Rotary Technologies and Inktec. One of their new launches is a servo register system for label production from Rotary Technologies of the USA that can be retro-fitted onto any flexo label press. 

Markem-Imaje – Hall 12 Stand 63
This is the first time Markem and Imaje will be exhibiting jointly in India after their merger last year. Markem-Imaje is a leading manufacturer of product identification and traceability solutions, offering a full line of inkjet, thermal transfer, laser, label application and RFID-based systems. Products on display will be the 9000 series continuous inkjet printer shown for the first time in India, the 8000 series thermal transfer online system, the 7000 series laser system, the 6000 series hot melt inkjet system, the 5000 series high resolution printer, the 4000 series large character printer, the 2000 series Print & Apply system and the 800 series Touch Dry Coder.

Nichrome – Hall 13 Stand 16
Nichrome is one of India’s leading manufacturers of VFFS systems and filling/dosing systems. It will be displaying its FlexiBlock system, a method of producing compact brick style pouches from  laminated films integrated with a VFFS line. This consists of a special carousel that turns out rectangular pouch packs using the conventional side-gusseted VFFS line. The machine on display uses a cup filler but can be modified to use other filling systems. Product handling parts have a specific finish and material of construction complying with food grade quality standards. The system is a combination of form-, fill-, and seal technology and has a specialised top shaping system for flat bottom bags with a variety of closing and re-sealable options. It is primarily designed to produce stand-up packs of free-flowing products of 500 g, 1 kg and 2 kg capacity.

Packaging South Asia – Hall 13 Stand 77
Packaging South Asia is part of the IPP Group, comprising Indian Printer and Publisher monthly, Packaging South Asia bimonthly, and IPP Services, Training and Research (IppStar). Each of these organisations maintain their own website with uploads each day in the case of the two publications and weekly email newsletters covering their respective market domains. Building a knowledge organization over the last thirty years, Indian Printer and Publisher has proven itself as a coherent window to the rapid and continuous changes in technology that drive our industry.

Packaging South Asia has made in impact as it begins its third year of publication. Our tech savvy editorial content delivered in a premium context and aesthetic format has already earned us the power to influence. Products on display: magazines, Pantone, books on printing.

Paharpur 3P – Hall 11 Stand 32
Paharpur cooling towers was confident to leverage its Paharpur brand to move into flexible packaging business in 1987, renamed to Paharpur 3P in 1995. The Group has propelled its flexible packaging division to a position of strength and respect in the market both nationally and internationally. The company’s sales turnover exceeds US$ 40million. It will be showing its flexible packaging materials at the show.

Pakona Engineers – Hall 12 Stand 13
Pakona is a leading manufacturer of VFFS and HFFS systems and automatic cartoners. At the show, they will be showcasing an automatic cartoning system integrated with a VFFS line, and a PK 70 vertical FFF machine. The cartoner is built in technical collaboration with Jacob White of UK and can run at speeds of over 150 cartons per minute.

Pepperl & Fuchs – Hall 13 Stand 168
From the products Pepperl & Fuchs is showing, GLD3 and RAL Barcodes and Categories 2 and 4 Safety Light Curtains are being showcased for the first time in India. The company said its experience of the show by virtue of participation last year has been good. Although they do not make or expect direct sales during exhibitions, this show is expected to provide a good platform for showcasing and promoting products and solutions to the packaging industry.

Shilp Gravures – Hall 11 Stand 44
Gujarat-based Shilp Gravures specialises in the commercial production of electronically engraved cylinders. At Pack Plus 2009 they will have on display electromagnetically engraved rollers, mechanically engraved rollers, chemically etched rollers and laser engraved rollers, as they did at Plast India09 earlier this year. Along with these products they will show various controls on packaging machinery, ink viscosity controllers and doctor blades.

Standard Machinery Sales Company – Hall 11 Stand 03
Standard Machinery are dealers and importers of printing and packaging machinery for flexo, rotogravure and label printing; converting equipment including die cutters, folder gluers, envelope making machines; prepress equipment including X-Rite spectrophotometers, densitometers, color matching systems and IGT testing equipment; and rotogravure cylinder preparation equipment and grinding stones.

Standard Printer Providers – Hall 11 Stand 06
Standard Printers Providers from Mumbai are dealers and importers of a wide variety of printing and packaging equipment, including Taiyo web-offset presses and TLC-250 central drum type UV label and lube laminate presses; Iwasaki automatic label presses; Sugano automatic cutter-creasers; and various other converting and inspection systems.

Sujyot Engineering – Hall 13 Stand 193
The company based in Gujarat will show their fully automatic end-of-line packaging systems:

Sujyot specializes in fully automatic computerized integrated operator less End-Of-Line packaging systems which includes online weighing, online strapping, carton sealing, Box turning, pushing, Stretch wrapping, accumulation, Online Shrink Wrapping with Auto film sleeving, etc. This fully automatic packing system is unmanned and operates by electronic pulse. It is suitable for high speed packaging for more than 500 to 2000 boxes per day packaging.

Technical Absorbents Ltd – Hall 13 Stand 97
Technical Absorbents Ltd (TAL) has announced that it will be exhibiting its Oasis Super Absorbent Fibre (SAF) technology, including SAF based powered fabrics and SAF  based food pads. This British brand was acquired by ChemChina's wholly-owned subsidiary, China National BlueStar Group in April 2007. With the success of occupying more than 50% of the EU super absorbent market in the pre-packaged food sector, TAL now is focusing on developing its innovative technology in Asia, where food packaging materials use is still limited due to the cultural differences in food consuming.
"Fresh food, including meat, fish, poultry, fruits and dairy products are often scrutinized by North American and European consumers," explains TAL Business Development Manager Dave Hill. "With pre-packaged foods becoming extremely popular, one of the most important considerations for the food manufacturer is how best to preserve the original quality of the product to achieve an optimum shelf-life. Effectively managing free exudates with a super absorbent food pad is one solution."

TAL already have a presence in India through its agents Business Co-ordination House (BCH), which has links with both the global and Indian technical textile industries and has already been successful in introducing TAL to various companies, entrepreneurs, students, academicians and other industry stakeholders. "PackPlus will now allow TAL to start creating an understanding of the benefits of super absorbents to the county's food industry and allow it to meet with companies throughout the supply chain under one roof," Hill says.

Trident Packaging Solutions – Hall 11 Stand 46
At a recent meeting in Hyderabad, Rajan Nijhawan of Trident told us that the company has stepped back from its digital flexo prepress project in Pune and is strongly pursuing its trading and consulting projects meant principally for the corrugating industry. Trident is the Indian distributor for Marbach Automation, Stoma, Zund cutting systems, Bernhardt Innovations, and Young Wha Dieborard System. At PackPlus Trident will be showing the Zund M800 plotter; an NC Mind CNC milling machine for embossing and foil stamping both rotary and flatbed blocks; the complete set of Marbach tools; and Marbach’s waterjet for rubber profiling. Our interesting discussion with Nijhawan revealed some of the developments in the fast modernising corrugation industry around the country.

Weldon Celloplast – Hall 10 Stand 48
Weldon is India’s leading manufacturers of pressure sensitive adhesive labelstock and represents over 20 leading international manufacturers of accessories and software for narrow-web label production such as flexible dies, solid dies, magnetic cylinders, print cylinders, plate mounters, anilox cleaning and maintenance solutions, wine label materials, Label Traxx job management software, slitter/rewinders, waste management solutions, second hand printing presses, anilox rollers, label applicators, web video and inspection systems and web cleaners. Next to these products, Weldon will be showcasing its entire range of labelstock solutions including tamper-evident systems. There will be specialists from Delta, who manufactures a wide range of custom-built narrow-web combination printing label presses and integrated downstream conversion stations.

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Windmoeller & Hoelscher India Pvt Ltd  – Hall 11 Stand 02
W&H is a leading supplier of flexible packaging machinery that includes multi-layer blown and cast film lines for production of laminating, barrier and other technical films, most advanced rotogravure and flexo presses, converting machines for plastic and paper bags, multiwall paper sacks and industrial FFS lines. Its subsidiaries Garant Maschinenhandel and BSW Machinery Handel supply reconditioned machines for carry and satchel bags and woven sacks. The company will be present at PackPlus with its detailed product documentation.

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