
Packaging Supply Chain news from the Asia Pacific
CHINA – Chinese label converter Suzhou Advance Printing (Yali) Co has invested in a narrow web digital press to achieve high productivity combined with the highest possible printing quality.
JAPAN – Two major Japanese companies have invested in flexo press technology from Dutch company MPS Systems B.V.
INDIA - Ahmedabad-based Shilp Gravures Ltd recently invested in a solution that allows it to move the highest quality work from gravure to flexo and meet customer demands.
INDIA – Parksons Packaging has invested in two high-performance sheetfed offset presses to significantly expand the Indian packaging manufacturer’s capacity.
CHINA – Chinese packaging printer Bo Shi Heng has purchased a Polar 176 high-speed cutter to enhance working efficiency as well as to shorten production time.
AUSTRALIA – Harden Packaging is expanding its production capacity with its investment in a new flexographic press and solventless laminating machine.
INDIA – Pragati Offset Pvt Ltd, has invested in a solution that converts packaging graphics from CMYK and spot color to a seven-color process. giving the printer a great advantage in offset printed cartons and label printing on its eight-color flexographic presses.
MALAYSIA – SCGM Bhd is investing US$3.15 million (RM 10 million) in a new plastic cup manufacturing line to increase its production capacity by about 1.3 million units a day.
CHINA – Shandong Sun Paper Industry Joint Stock Co Ltd has commissioned Germamy’s Voith with the delivery of three paper machines for production of packaging and graphic paper.
S KOREA – South Korean packaging manufacturers are investing in production capacity expansion for corrugated board and packaging boxes.
CHINA – Domestic cosmetics packaging manufacturer Shenzhen Beauty Star Co Ltd is expanding into the food packaging market with an investment in new injection molding technology.
JAPAN - Booming business and a need for creativity and reliability were two of the main factors behind Japanese toy packaging printer Ono Bijutsu Insatsujo’s recent purchase of a ROLAND 706 LV.