The most popular Sunday Columns of 2022 - Part II

Indian packaging industry - at a glance - The Noel D'Cunha Sunday Column

Packaging is the fifth largest sector in India's economy and is one of the highest growth sectors in the country. And to the Packaging Industry Association of India (PIAI), the sector is growing at a CAGR 22% to 25%

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Industry emerges as winner, as grow

Labelexpo unveils new talking points - The Noel D'Cunha Sunday Column
th returns to fore - The Noel D'Cunha Sunday Column

With the market opening up after a two-year slump of the pandemic, there is a sense of optimism among the printing fraternity. There are issues and concerns, of course, but the overall outlook is that of hope.

Noel D’Cunha and Dibyajyoti Sarma report

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Bobst packs a punch for converters - The Noel D'Cunha Sunday Column

Bobst unveiled a raft of new products in June.

In this Sunday Column, the event’s Bobst team – Jean Pascal Bobst, Raphael Indermühle, Bodo Junge, Patrick Graber, and Sara Alexander discuss what these new products mean for the packaging world with Noel D’Cunha at the Bobst Competence Centre in Laussane

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Print has declined but packaging remains standing - The Noel D'Cunha Sunday Column

Datta Deshpande, CEO of Pratham Technologies has achieved a remarkable manufacturing and business success. The IPAMA Lifetime Achievement Award 2022 winner interacts with PrintWeek.

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Fineflexo focuses on productivity with a brand-new Gallus Labelmaster press - The Noel D'Cunha Sunday Column

Fineflexo has installed a new Gallus Labelmaster 440 with the aim of producing best-suited labels to eliminate bottlenecks in its group companies' supply chain of pharmaceutical business and logistics. PrintWeek finds out.

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Labelexpo unveils new talking points - The Noel D'Cunha Sunday Column

Other than the new announcements and product launches, what stood out at the Labelexpo India show (10-13 Novemberr 2022) was flexible pouches being printed on the narrow-web with UV inks. Then there were the reverse printed jobs on 12 microns PET and rendered with three layers of lamination.

Also, lots of tech-talk about which is better? Inline spot UV with matt and glossy substrates or offline? And the debate about gravure jobs being converted to flexo? Plus, what is the definition of short runs?

The Sunday Column makes sense of all the chit-chat over the four days of the show

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Flipkart's sustainable packaging drive and design innovations - The Noel D'Cunha Sunday Column

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now. How has this proverb helped Flipkart in its sustainability drive as Noel D'cunha finds out.

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