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  • Oct 07, 2009

    Karnataka floods: how packaging can help...

    There are sever floods in some parts of Karnataka. There is a big problem of food and safe drinking water. May people are working on it. I got a call from Dr Jagannatha Rao of Koday group to help them
  • Aug 23, 2009

    Hello friends of packaging!

    I start this blog today on the day of ganesh chaturthi 23 august 2009. Anything that starts with lord ganesh in india is supposed to be successful and meets the purpose. Ganesh Chaturthi is once such
    Ganesh Ji
  • Nov 05, 2009

    Make noise about silent killer! : how pa...

    Today in Ahmedabad, India 6 November 2009, I read the newspaper Times of India talking about the killer desiease diabetes in India and particularly in Gujrat. Its alarming. You can read more at http:/
  • May 11, 2010

    Effect of moisture and packaging on the ...

    This is the critical part of our dailf food in India: Wheat flour. Now more and more of it coming into packaged form and still many things are not clear. So there is a good case study here and you can
  • May 11, 2010

    Metal waste picking from garbage using m...

    See the picture of a rag pickers helping india to recycle more. He is using a stick with magnets at the end and trying to find small metal objects, nails, screws etc in such a big heap of garbage. I
  • Dec 06, 2010

    Indian bread roti in jet airways 9w309 m...

     Nice food served in Jet Airways 9W 309 flight on 3rd December 2010 on my way back to Delhi after CPHI India 2010. Getting Indian brad Roti was great. What hits me as a packaging technologist, that
  • Dec 10, 2010

    Ashok chaturvedi, uflex and packaging ti...

     I do not know what is right or wrong here but I know Mr Chaturvedi has given a new face to flexible packaging industry of India? he has built big packaging business and also made the way of hundreded
  • Dec 10, 2010

    Gutkha & packaging mail today 8 dec 2010

     This is quite interesting that Honourable court is banning the plastic sachet packaging for Gutkha. Why hit packaging and NOT attach the root cause of tobacco consumption? Tomorrow to stop liquor
  • Dec 27, 2010

    Packaging industry growing 10% annually ...

    Today in the Mail Today I read that Indian packaging industry is growing approx 10% annually and estimated packaging market is 13 billion USD. The growth is happening due to growth of pharma and food
  • Jan 14, 2011

    Extrusion - corona treater

        System integration is the heart of any industry and same goes for packaging too. I was reading this e-  news  on surface treatments and came across the new high definition  Corona treatment for
  • Jan 19, 2011

    Anti-counterfeiting based on number syst...

    Now there is a scheme in India  for anti-counterfeiting based on number system. This is Information Technology Act 2008 compliant in India and confirms to common principles of Information Technology
  • Jan 31, 2011

    Can we remove cartons from toothpaste tu...

     Great looking cartons on top of great looking laminated tube. I think laminated tubes are quite strong and can be designed to move without any outer cartons. As I see the utility here for the cartons
  • Feb 07, 2011

    Bear encounter and packaging

     Packaging does matter and if you want a real successof product, and not being attacked then you must take packaging seriously and sincerely. Afterall bears to attack humans and packaging protects
  • Feb 14, 2011

    Do ew really need packaging? http://link...

    This is the question hit me one day, that Do we really need packaging? If yes, then why and if no, again why?  Thinking about it, we started a Poll at Linkedin and started getting interesting results
  • Feb 16, 2011

    Track & trace requirement of government ...

    I understand that Government of India has announced that all pharmaceutical export shipments must have track & trace feature to avoid any spurious Indian pharmaceutical products in the market
  • Feb 23, 2011

    Girls like trandy , sleek, near weightle...

    Recently while a over the tea conversation with some of my colleagues, a discussion on cosmetic packaging erupted. Discussion stirred towards enamels and near unanimously all the female counterparts
  • Mar 07, 2011

    3point review of packaging companies, bu...

    The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most world problems."Gandhi” Packaging Industry is a very dynamic industry. Every other day we see a new
  • Nov 19, 2010

    Avedon classic and packaging creativity

    Today in the aircraft from Mumbai to Delhi, I was reading the newspaper Mail Today, New Delhi 19 November 2010. I just noticed a classic photography by Avedon that would be auctioned soon in Paris
  • Nov 26, 2010

    Everyone looks better from behind

    Quite a point, I think many a times, same happens with packaging. Everything looks good from outside when we look at packaging but once we open the packaging and look at contents, then we find what