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FICCI seeks tax
sops for packaging industry
FICCI
has demanded fiscal incentives for the packaging industry, citing
findings of its survey which says higher cost of packaging on
account of costly raw material and higher duties was impacting the
demand for processed foods.
The
domestic packaging industry, which is worth $ 18.8 billion and
growing at over 15% annually, is characterised by a large number
of small players and only a few large players with national
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DuPont opens
first customer technical centre in India
Dupont India announced the launch of
the 'DuPont customer technical centre' (CTC) in partnership with
the SIES School of Packaging, Mumbai
The DuPont CTC has installed state-of-the-art laboratoriesand
innovative processing equipment that will offer flexographic
printing technnology and training to OEM customers and industrial
partners in the domestic printing and packaging industry.
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Monotech Systems focuses on digital printing
Monotech Systems Ltd, Chennai has
installed 500+ equipment including imagesetters, CtPs, digital and
large format printers.
The company is planning to sell
high-end 508mm web digital printers with 1-pass duplex facility
from Xeikon, Belgium to tap the growing digital printing segment,
particularly in the transactional print on demand and labels
category.
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Indian products in Swedish packaging
The Swedish packaging giant, Billerud
is all set to invest in the Indian market. The company plans to
work with Indian counterparts by making joint ventures and market
collaboration for producing high quality packaging products.
Billerud is a name synonym for the
manufacturing of high quality packaging products and have entered
almost all speres in the packaging segment. |
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Paper prices seen up on high input cost, demand
Paper makers are set to hike prices again in
the quarter to offset rising input costs and also as the gap
between surging demand and weak supplies widened, industry players
said.
India's largest paper producer Ballarpur
Industries Ltd., raised uncoated paper prices by 500 Rupees a
tonne in October and Star Paper, West Coast and J K Paper Mills
may also hike prices they said.
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GIPT - Mumbai Alumni
Association launched
The GIPT-Mumbai Alumni Association
was launched with great fanfare on 12th Sept 2007.The primary aim
of this association would be to play a positive role in the field
of education.
The first meeting of the GIPT-Mumbai
Alumni Association was held on Friday 14th March 2008 at 5.30pm at
GIPT Mumbai. To take the concept / idea ahead, the first managing
committee was elected. Till today 66 members have been enrolled.
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