Avery Dennison’s commitment to the Indian and South Asian markets is reflected in the company’s new factory in Greater Noida in the Delhi NCR. The new plant will use the latest technology – both for running the plant and for producing label stock. It will be equipped with the technology to create something like a smart factory – state-of-the-art in terms of equipment, speed, and technology.
In 2019 Avery Dennison opened its first intelligent label innovation space in the Asia Pacific and Sub Saharan Africa region in Pune, India. It is an interactive facility that provides customers and partners with hands-on experiences, live demonstrations and technical support, to help converters and partners explore the opportunities surrounding intelligent label solutions and RFID adoption.
The company will give a presentation at the upcoming Indian Smart Packaging Summit (19th March.) Specifically the talk, by Evelyn Ong, market development manager intelligent labels, APAC, will be about Smart Packaging for Pharma Safety & Security. But the company and its Smartrac division offer solutions for many sectors providing tags for variety of applications.
During a recent interview in Packaging South Asia with Mahesh Pathak, Avery Dennison’s senior director of operations for South Asia and Sub Saharan Africa, and Pankaj Bhardwaj, vice president and general manager, Avery Dennison India, they explained that the Greater Noida project is part of a long-term commitment to this market and reflects a deep belief that India & South Asia offer enormous opportunities for growth.
“There is a resilience of the packaging industry (in the region), indeed the packaging industry has done relatively better in the pandemic. One can attribute it clearly to the resilience of the consumer in India,“ explained Mr Bhardwaj.
“eCommerce is an essential and integral part of Avery Dennison’s go-to-market strategy globally as well as in India. It is not just for labels but also for other logistics solutions like RFID that are a part of inventory control and important,” added Mr Pathak.“
In terms of anti-counterfeiting and anti-microbial solutions they explained, “Apart from being difficult to copy, for anti-counterfeiting, the solution has to be far more complex, and there are multiple solutions – and there are no clear winners. It’s a challenge, and there are more to come. Our company has some answers, but these cannot be stand-alone solutions – they require partners in the ecosystem such as printers and digital solution providers. Anti-counterfeiting is something that has multiple solutions, and there is no clear winner.”
“For anti-microbial, Avery already has an offering in a part of its graphics solutions. These are films, and so far, the takers have not been labels but more in the area of wall graphics and vehicle graphics and others,” they said.
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