Growing Packaging Industry Takes Centre Stage for the Paper Industry
IPPTA Zonal Seminar 2017, with its exclusive focus on packaging paper, was organized on August 4-5 at Aurangabad. The focus on packaging paper was naturally mandated by burgeoning packaging paper demand, growing at double digits in recent years. The pulp and paper industry’s growing attention on packaging segment products necessitated......
GST and Paper Industry, an Optimistic Stance
The Indian paper makers feel that GST, through its sincere implementation, would surely have an overall positive impact along with noticeable outcomes such as improving the cost competitiveness, competitiveness against imports, higher tax compliance, undercutting of unorganized sector, greater cash flow, etc. Some however also feel that rate on the......
CII: Towards a ‘Water-Woes-Proof’ Future
The 2nd National Conference on ‘Moving towards making pulp and paper sector water secure and sustainable’ took place on June 23, 2017 in New Delhi under the aegis of CII, where a humongous gathering from the Indian pulp and paper industry, the Govt. regulatory bodies, and premier research institutions discussed......
Judging by the Package
— Ms. Anjana Shanmugavel, Senior Manager, Sustainable Business, WWF-India. A key part of India’s forest fibre consumption story today revolves around packaging. Its importance has been increasing exponentially, owing to retail growth and shifting patterns in the way goods are produced, traded, stored and transported around the country and exported......
Yash Papers Ltd.: Focus on Product Innovation Aimed at Substituting Single Use Polybags
With Plans to work in the food sector, Yash Papers is committed to explore some sustainable form of packaging paper meant for bags, largely replacing environmentally damaging polybags. The company plans focus on the same in the coming three years and ideates to manufacture paper for bags with a single,......
Kesoram Industries Ltd.: Transparent Paper Films, a Greener Packaging Solution
Plastic-based packaging films are a persistent challenge to waste management amid growing environmental concerns. Kesoram Industries, through its biodegradable transparent paper products, hopes to contribute to wide adoption of environment-friendly packaging practices. Kesoram Industries, the diversified flagship entity of B K Birla group, was founded in 1919 under the name......
Increased Paper Consumption: Best Bet to Combat Climate Change
– Deepak Kumar Khare The real answer to challenges such as reducing massive carbon footprint and combating climate change lies in encouraging usage of paper and paper products, catalysing plantation efforts. For ensuring and enhancing green cover in India, encouraging farmers to undertake tree farming on their private/community land is......
ENERGY-EFFICIENT FIBER TREATMENT — With Durabond Refiner Plates
The cost of fiber and energy represent about 60% of a paper mill’s manufacturing cost. Optimizing refining action with the proper refiner plate technology can, therefore, have a significant impact on the bottom line. This TechTalk discusses the development of low-cost, energy-efficient fiber treatment in the refining process. Energy is......
Data Analytics for Tissue
– Ian Padley, Global Marketing Manager Tissue, BTG Group We hear much about data and data related topic everywhere today: big data, industry 4.0, internet of things, factor of the future and so on. Data really is everywhere, and in tissue making too, use of data is a well-established tool......