New Delhi , 3rd Nov 2017– Cosmo Films, a global leader in films for packaging, labeling and lamination applications was recently announced as one of the winners for SIES SOP and IFCA Star Awards for excellence in its packaging innovation and product development in the flexibles space.

The winning entries for SIES SOP Star Awards include a recyclable soap wrap film and an Ultra High Barrier Film that can serve as a replacement of aluminium foil. The recyclable soap wrap film is a major innovation as it helps both brands and converters fair better on laminate structure rationalization & GSM reduction thus reducing the overall costs; better aesthetics because of pearl effect and of course recyclability quotient. The winning entry for IFCA star award includes a Black Velvet Lamination film which offers intense black colour along with velvet touch to the laminated paper/paperboard or package, thereby enhancing its overall aesthetics.

IFCA Star Awards are conferred by the Indian Flexible Packaging & Folding Cartons Association, SIES SCHOOL OF PACKAGING STAR AWARDS as the name suggests are presented by the renowned institution SIES that is credited with producing some of the finest professionals of the packaging industry. The awards presentation ceremonies for both the awards are yet to take place (scheduled for November); however, the winners have already been announced.

Expressing delight over the latest award announcements, Mr Tapas Mandal, Head-Research & Development at Cosmo Films said, “We are humbled to receive these awards. Any form of recognition encourages us to only raise our product standards to the next level. These awards go on to further assure our customers that we have been developing some of the finest products with improved functionalities & aesthetics with cost effectiveness in mind.”

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New Delhi , 3^rd Nov 2017– Cosmo Films, a global leader in films for packaging, labeling and lamination applications was recently announced as one of the winners for SIES SOP and IFCA Star Awards for excellence in its packaging innovation and product development in the flexibles space.

The winning entries for SIES SOP Star Awards include a recyclable soap wrap film and an Ultra High Barrier Film that can serve as a replacement of aluminium foil. The recyclable soap wrap film is a major innovation as it helps both brands and converters fair better on laminate structure rationalization & GSM reduction thus reducing the overall costs; better aesthetics because of pearl effect and of course recyclability quotient. The winning entry for IFCA star award includes a Black Velvet Lamination film which offers intense black colour along with velvet touch to the laminated paper/paperboard or package, thereby enhancing its overall aesthetics.

IFCA Star Awards are conferred by the Indian Flexible Packaging & Folding Cartons Association, SIES SCHOOL OF PACKAGING STAR AWARDS as the name suggests are presented by the renowned institution SIES that is credited with producing some of the finest professionals of the packaging industry. The awards presentation ceremonies for both the awards are yet to take place (scheduled for November); however, the winners have already been announced.

Expressing delight over the latest award announcements, Mr Tapas Mandal, Head-Research & Development at Cosmo Films said, “We are humbled to receive these awards. Any form of recognition encourages us to only raise our product standards to the next level. These awards go on to further assure our customers that we have been developing some of the finest products with improved functionalities & aesthetics with cost effectiveness in mind.”

About Cosmo Films Limited

Established in 1981, Cosmo Films Limited today is a global leader in speciality films for packaging, lamination and labeling applications. Its films offerings include biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) films, cast polypropylene (CPP) films and soon to be offered biaxially oriented polyethylene terephthalate (BOPET) films. Today, the company is the largest exporter of BOPP films from India and is also the largest producer of thermal laminating films in the world with plant cum distribution centres in the U.S, Korea & Japan and global channel partners in more than seventy countries.

stablished in 1981, Cosmo Films Limited today is a global leader in speciality films for packaging, lamination and labeling applications. Its films offerings include biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) films, cast polypropylene (CPP) films and soon to be offered biaxially oriented polyethylene terephthalate (BOPET) films. Today, the company is the largest exporter of BOPP films from India and is also the largest producer of thermal laminating films in the world with plant cum distribution centres in the U.S, Korea & Japan and global channel partners in more than seventy countries.

The most recent innovation from Ardagh’s Nienburg plant in Germany, the GLÜCK preserve jar, has been awarded a Deutscher Verpackungspreis by the German Packaging Institute. This is the second sector award in 2017 for the preserve jar, which is exclusively manufactured by the Ardagh Group.

The Ardagh Group facility in Nienburg teamed up with a local customer, the Friedrich Göbber Company, a preserve manufacturer based in Eystrup, to develop a very special 230g preserve jar with an unusual convex design, a large opening and an extra-thick base. The preserve maker also opted for a design feature that gives the jar a distinctive visual USP by dispensing with a label and printing straight onto the glass.

The preserve jar’s design has captured the attention of the packaging industry

Every year the German Packaging Institute pays tribute to excellent packaging concepts. This year, the independent jury selected the Göbber GLÜCK jar made by the Ardagh Group as the winner of its award in the ‘design and finishing’ category. The institute commented: “The packaging communicates exclusivity and lifestyle. Its quality, plus the combination of a pure fruit product in pure glass with purist design, are the reasons for the jury’s choice.”

Manufacturers from twelve different countries entered around 200 products in total for this prestigious sector award.

“We knew that the Ardagh Group in Nienburg was an experienced, competent and creative glass packaging partner, but we genuinely weren’t expecting our jar to win the famous German Packaging Award in addition to the Innovative Glass Product award and the associated Public Choice Award,” said a delighted Marc Ebbert, Purchasing Director at Göbber.

The awards ceremony was held in Berlin on 26 September.

The GLÜCK jar: from initial design to award winner

The brief was to design a preserve jar that emphasised the special qualities of the fruit spreads, stood out on the supermarket shelves, was easy to handle and could be sustainably and cost-effectively manufactured as a standardised product. The Ardagh team in Nienburg was happy to take on that challenge because it allowed them to demonstrate their technical expertise and creativity.

“The GLÜCK fruit spreads deliver a 'pure flavour‘ experience to the consumer. When we discussed the design with Göbber, we soon realised that the glass packaging had to embody the purity, naturalness and uniqueness of the fruit spreads” says Gerd Zurawsky, Senior Sales Manager, Food, at the Ardagh plant in Nienburg.

Eight different flavours of the GLÜCK fruit spreads have been on the supermarket shelves since February 2017.

Sustainable and regional

“The German Packaging Institute presents its award as a tribute to manufacturers for innovative products that benefit both consumers and the environment, and we are fully committed to those objectives and values,” explains Jens Schaefer, Managing Director of the Ardagh Group in Germany.

“Glass is one of the greenest packaging materials in the market and sustainability is a fundamental aspect of the partnership between the Ardagh Group and Göbber. Our Nienburg facility and the Göbber Company are just 12 miles apart, so the delivery distance is short and transport-related CO2 emissions are low. This regional focus has a positive impact on our sustainability performance and another benefit of this close and innovative collaboration between the two neighbours is that it boosts the regional economy and safeguards jobs.”

About the German Packaging Award

The German Packaging Award is an international award for packaging products from all sectors and in all material. Its patron is the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. Every year the German Packaging Institute (dvi) pays tribute to innovative and creative packaging concepts, some with just a tiny pioneering detail and others representing something fundamentally new. The German Packaging Award is geared to packaging and packaging machine designers, developers, manufacturers and users, and the next creative generation. Packaging Award winners are automatically nominated for the World Packaging Organisation’s WorldStar award.

About Ardagh Group and the Nienburg facility

The glassmaking facility in Nienburg is part of the international Ardagh Group – a global leader in packaging solutions. One of the Ardagh Group’s areas of expertise is glass packaging solutions. In Germany, Ardagh Group company Ardagh Glass GmbH operates a total of eight production facilities, one of which is in Nienburg. More than three million glass packaging products are manufactured there every day – from small jam jars to large spirit bottles. The Nienburg facility currently has approximately 710 employees. It is also the location of the Ardagh Glass GmbH headquarters.

Pacprocess India / indiapack / food pex India from 26th to 28th October 2017 in New Delhi

Only a few weeks to go until pacprocess India, a further development of the International PackTech India, opens its doors from 26 to 28 October 2017! This new trio of events including pacprocess, indiapack and foodpex benefits from the exceptional knowledge provided by the interpack alliance, a new label that spans all international events staged by Messe Düsseldorf, organizer of the world's leading packaging trade fair interpack, and its partners under its Processing & Packaging portfolio. This year, pacprocess India will be held at the exhibition centre Pragati Maidan, India's world-class exhibition complex situated in the heart of the capital New Delhi.

Take the opportunity and register here as a visitor!

Link: http://www.zestgroupindia.in/indiapack2017/

It would also like to provide you with important advice for your journey to pacprocess India: Take a look at visa and travel information to make your trip to New Delhi an easy one.

Background information

The packaging industry in India is one of the fastest growing industries worldwide. Due to globalization and liberalization new opportunities are emerging fast and the joint initiative between Messe Düsseldorf and the renowned Indian Institute of Packaging (IIP) now provides the perfect platform to get to know India's market. The world’s most important suppliers of innovative packaging technology and related process industries across the entire supply chain meet up at pacprocess, indiapack and food pex. Don’t miss the chance to be a part of this completely new and innovative format including:

• Pacprocess India: Packaging machinery, machines and equipment for the manufacturing of pharmaceuticals and cosmetics, automation technology/components/accessories, recycling and environmental technology

• Indiapack: Packaging materials and accessories as well as machines and equipment for the manufacturing of packaging and packaging aids

• Food pex India: Machines and equipment for the manufacturing of food, confectionery and bakery products

• Drink technology India from Messe Munich will also take place at the same time, focusing on beverages and the liquid food industry.

More information about the event and the joint initiative of Messe Düsseldorf India and IIP.

Supporting programme

ISPI, the International Summit for Packaging Industry, with this year's theme „Packaging – the Growth Driver“ will take place parallel to pacprocess India. The theme was chosen by considering the fact that the economic growth of the country is largely affected by the packaging industry in terms of high volume of production of packaging raw materials, its conversion into different forms of packaging and the usage of different forms of packaging by the user industries with the help of innovative packaging machinery. Learn more about the specialities of the Indian market:

More information on ISPI (Link: http://ispi2017.in/ )

Make sure you benefit from all these offers by visiting pacprocess India / indiapack / food pex India 2017! We look forward to welcoming you!

The interpack is one of the most important international packaging events for the food, beverage, confectionery, bakery, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, non-food and industrial goods industries. From 4 to 10 May 2017 the packing industry in Düsseldorf meets. For the first time in nine years, Greiner Packaging again presented its innovative product diversity. Kremsmünster, March 2017.

More than 2,700 exhibitors from around 60 countries present the latest trends and the latest developments in the packaging industry at the 262,499 square meters exhibition hall in Düsseldorf. The interpack is a unique platform for companies and their products and solutions - Greiner Packaging knows this and also makes use of the opportunity to inform existing and potential customers, partners and interested trade fair visitors about their product and technology offerings. Greiner Packagings will have the main focus is on solutions ranging from solutions in the barrier area to sustainable products to innovative technologies and strategic approaches in the context of globalization. "We would like to use the trade fair to get in touch with the visitors. We want to show, That we are already well prepared for future changes, that we know in which direction trends are developing and how we as packaging specialists deal with them as best we can. Under the motto 'Ask us!' We are ready to answer the questions of our guests, whether it's longer food sustainability, creative design ideas or our new locations in Turkey or India, "says Manfred Stanek, CEO of Greiner Packaging. The test stand also features a special extra - a virtual reality space in which existing and potential customers can convince themselves of the efficient, fast and clean production at Greiner Packaging by means of a selected production process. "We stand for top quality as well as innovative processes and use the virtual application to demonstrate our customers' needs. We want to show that we are dealing with technologies that will play a decisive role today, especially in the future, "emphasizes Manfred Stanek.

Trade fairs reflect company trends Greiner Packaging reacts to current social trends with its measuring fairs and shows how packaging can change through these and what added value these can offer in the future:

Reduction of food waste: barrier packaging

Growing demand for light packaging: plastic replaces metal and glass

Increasing ecological awareness: cardboard-plastic combinations

Increasing urbanization: a wide range of products

Demand for a wide range of convenience products: innovative packaging solutions

Aging Society: High Quality Healthcare Packaging

Increased globalization: commitment to foreign markets

Interpack 2017: 4th - 10th May Hall 10, Stand C42

At Cophex, Optima Pharma will exhibit the INOVA SV 125. It will be presented at the booth of the long term partner Sampoong. This machine model has recently been refined into a modular machine platform. It is compatible with the four most common filling systems: rotary piston pumps, peristaltic pumps, mass flow and time-pressure systems. Furthermore, the SV machine has been optimized for processing vials, prefilled syringes and cartridges at fast change over times. The inbuilt flexibility allows for easy enhancement of functionality and increase of output to 20,000 containers/hour.In addition, Optima Pharma will inform visitors about the OPTIMA H4 filling and closing machine. It is a system which covers a great number of diverse applications: Combining the ultimate in system flexibility with time and cost advantages, the OPTIMA H4 processes nested vials, syringes and cartridges. Flexibility is also the keyword when it comes to containment: whether oRABS, cRABS or isolator, all systems can be cost-effectively fitted to the standardized machine base. A ten-headed system is provided for filling. The transport system in the OPTIMA H4 ensures gentle container handling. It achieves a standard output of up to 24,000 objects/h but can be retrofitted to reach 36,000 containers/h. Another hot topic will be the latest MulituseFiller series. The OPTIMA MultiuseFiller series is a highly flexible filling and closing machine for the processing of nested and bulk containers. The series can process all types of nested syringe, vial and cartridge formats. It is equipped with an innovative transport system that process vial ranges from 2R up to 30R at production rates up to 150 containers per minute without any format change parts. Its modular design ensures the end user ultimate flexibility to quickly respond to all market/production demands. As a turnkey provider, Optima Pharma provides entire sterile filling solutions for pharmaceutical products. This includes containment systems and isolators, as well as freeze-dryers. The capacity spectrum ranges from laboratory machines through to fully automated turnkey lines which are ever more in demand.

At Interphex, Optima Pharma will exhibit the OPTIMA H4 filling and closing machine. It is a system which covers a great number of diverse applications. Furthermore, Optima Pharma will inform visitors about its latest MulituseFiller series.

Combining the ultimate in system flexibility with time and cost advantages, the OPTIMA H4 processes nested vials, syringes and cartridges. It can accommodate filling systems based on rotary dosing pumps, peristaltic filling and time-pressure filling. High-tech functions have been integrated into the modular type to further enhance the underlying flexibility of the machine. If necessary, a robot can open the tubs and remove the Tyvek paper, and this function has already been installed in the filling machine section, which saves space. Semi-automatic systems can also be integrated. Flexibility is also the byword when it comes to containment: whether oRABS, cRABS or isolator, all systems can be cost-effectively fitted to the standardized machine base. A ten-position system is provided for filling. The transport system in the OPTIMA H4 ensures gentle container handling. It achieves a standard output of up to 24,000 objects/h but can be retrofitted to reach the level of 36,000 objects/h. The machine can also be later upgraded with IPC (in-process control) and vacuum filling/stopper insertion without changing anything on the machine base. Furthermore, Optima Pharma will inform visitors about its latest MulituseFiller series. The OPTIMA Multiuse series is a highly flexible filling and closing machine for the processing of nested and bulk containers. The systems can process all types of nested syringe, vial and cartridge formats. It is equipped with an innovative transport system that process vial ranges from 2cc up to 30cc at production rates up to 150 products per minute without any format change parts. Its modular design is giving the end user the ultimate flexibility to quickly response to all market/production demands. OPTIMA pharma at Interphex 2016, Javits Center, New York City, April 26-28, 2016: Booth No. 3103

At CIDPEX, Optima Nonwovens will focus its range of packaging machinery for baby diapers. Semi and fully automated machinery by Optima Nonwovens packs diapers with the utmost precision, and if required, at highest speeds. The output of the machinery range starts with 40 packages/min in the entry level end reaches up to 120 packages/min in the high speed sector. Up to 1.600 diapers are processed per minute. Furthermore, machinery by Optima Nonwovens offers maximum flexibility and ideal product protection.

The packaging quality is always a crucial factor. With adjustable compression units and high precision processing Optima machines provide the right packaging to best showcase logos and printing at the POS. A multitude of new options are now possible, for example for producing small packaging sizes at high speeds. The machines can be adjusted quickly to a large range of formats. Depending on the machine types format change over is motorized. 

Optima Nonwovens at CIDPEX: Hall 9 Booth-no. 9C14 

BIOPLASTICS PLAY ESSENTIAL ROLE IN FUTURE CIRCULAR PLASTICS ECONOMY Says new report by World Economic Forum and Ellen MacArthur Foundation. European Bioplastics (EUBP), the association representing the bioplastics industry in Europe, welcomes the new report by the World Economic Forum and Ellen MacArthur Foundation on ‘The New Plastics Economy: Rethinking the future of plastics’. The report provides an overarching vision of a global circular plastics economy in which bioplastics play an essential role in decoupling the economy from fossil resources and help to return nutrients to the soil. The vision of the ‘New Plastics Economy’ aligns with the principles of the circular economy and outlines concrete steps on how plastics never become waste but, instead, re-enter the economy as valuable technical or biological nutrients. “The report demonstrates very clearly how bioplastics can help to deliver better economic and environmental outcomes by replacing fossil with bio-based feedstocks, while developing the many benefits of plastic packaging”, says Hasso von Pogrell, Managing Director of EUBP. The report acknowledges that ‘feedstock from renewable sources helps decouple plastics production from finite fossil feedstocks and reduce the greenhouse gas footprint of plastic packaging […] and potentially act as a carbon sink throughout their life cycle.’ Furthermore, the report recognises that compostable packaging can ‘help return organic nutrients to the soil in applications that are prone to be mixed with organic contents after use’. It recommends scaling up the adoption of industrially compostable plastic packaging for targeted applications such as biowaste bags and food packaging and calls for the set-up of corresponding waste management infrastructure. “The report provides an excellent fact-base for future discussions and a comprehensive vision on how the plastics industry can move towards a circular economy”, von Pogrell concludes.

Aptar Pharma, a manufacturer of drug delivery systems for nasal applications worldwide, announced the installation of

The stable plug-in modules and the pre-assembled floor panels guarantee a fast construction and a healthy gentle pack

The entire concept, notably usability and aesthetics, to improve the user experience with a truly unique and pleasing

This innovative,Go Green Packaging without the glue is made from domestic specialty paper and packaging manufacturer 

The interlocking, stackable, and wave-shaped glass jars, reminiscent of inkpots used by Italian writers of centuries

Skin packaging onto aluminium containers offers fresh solution for foods.

The Banana Box is a single piece of packaging which uses less material in its production than the original design.

Once disassembled, the box becomes completely flat which allows reducing the volume of paper waste.

The SoFruBox system consists of a stackable crate in which individual punnets containing 500g (SoFruMiniPak) or 1 Kg

This is an extraordinary form of packaging and use of material (100% recyclable).

Without compromising on the bottle integrity or the safety standards of the still beverage inside.