Naresh Khanna
Editor of Indian Printer and Publisher since 1979 and Packaging South Asia since 2007. Trained as an offset printer and IBM 360 computer programmer. Active in the movement to implement Indian scripts for computer-aided typesetting. Worked as a consultant and trainer to the Indian print and newspaper industry. Visiting faculty of IDC at IIT Powai in the 1990s. Also founder of IPP Services, Training and Research and has worked as its principal industry researcher since 1999. Author of book: Miracle of Indian Democracy.
SMI installs Matho waste management for labelstock production
SMI Coated Products, the leading labelstock manufacturer, has just installed three Matho waste management systems at its impressive and modern Ambernath plant near Mumbai....
Astron Packaging installs new ABG Digicon Series 3 in Dubai
Astron packaging in Ahmedabad, which expanded its operations to the UAE in 2019, has just installed the latest ABG Digicon Series 3 finishing machine...
Greiner Assistec’s smart petri dish with innoMe’s printed sensor systems
In its capacity as a solution provider and technology integrator, Greiner Assistec draws on its extensive solutions expertise in the production of innovative, functional...
Cosmo Films on the pandemic, industry expansion, exports & sustainability
Amongst the fourteen new film lines coming to India in the next three years is Cosmo Films’ polyester line from Bruckner. Naresh Khanna, editor...
Indian foodgrain output to rise to 305.43 million tons in 2020-21
India’s agriculture ministry released its third advance estimate on 25 May 2021, for the 2020-21 June to July crop year – predicting a rise...
Universal APF-Max from PET Technologies come to market
Austrian company PET Technologies has recently brought to the market a new generation of flexible PET stretch blow-molding machines called APF-Max. Their output varies...
BillerudKorsnäs and Haver & Boecker define norms for sack packaging
Last year BillerudKorsnäs and Haver & Boecker published a total of nine sack packaging norms. These norms cover the basics and some of the...
Mettler-Toledo and Evrythng partner for food safety
On 19 May 2021, UK-based Mettler-Toledo Product Inspection announced a strategic partnership with Evrythng, a pioneer of the product cloud. The association provides food...
Redefine Meat appoints Alon Bar-Shany as executive chairman
Alon Bar-Shany well known as the protagonist of HP Indigo digital printing's success for the past 15 years has most recently joined Isreali alternate...
Cosmo Films launches opaque synthetic paper
In the first half of May 2021, Cosmo Films, the Indian packaging and specialty films manufacturer, has introduced a 100% Opaque Synthetic Paper (OSP),...
