WhatPackaging? labels quiz
Today, India is the fourth largest national market worldwide, pegged at USD 48.2 billion. Packaging and labels are what today's quiz is celebrating. If you have been reading our bulletins, you will (you should!) know the answers to all the ten questions which have been created by our quiz master Aditya Ghosalkar.
27 Nov 2023 | By Aditya Ghosalkar
Did you know? The world's oldest known label is a clay wine jar seal, which dates back to ancient Egypt, around 3500 BCE.
Questions
1. Hyderabad-based Pravesha Industries booked a Wiegang ZJR350 ten-colour servo flexo press at Labelexpo in Brussels. What is unique about this investment?
2. Which Noida-based pre-press specialist has announced plans to go public to fund its Capex plan and set sights on expanding its revenues by four times to Rs 350-crore by FY2025?
3. Besides winning awards for its print work, Ahmedabad-based Letra Graphix has been awarded with what kind of recognition for its outstanding sustainability efforts?
4. Which Hyderabad-based that supplies branded water bottles to 600 brands invested in an Accurio Label 230 in the water bottles manufacturing plant?
5. Flexo Image Graphics (FIG) sold multiple Mark Andy narrow-web flexo presses during the Labelexpo Europe 2023. Among the big deals sealed were two Mark Andy Pro Series narrow-web flexo presses. Who was the buyer?
6. Lombardi Converting Machinery is a 30-year-old Italian company that has built a press which has the capability to print on a range of substrates from 12-micron film to a 450-gsm board, with aluminium blister foils, lamitubes, IML, shrink films. This press was installed in Pune recently. Name the company.
7. Gallus launched its new press with converting options which brings everything inline and features a digital printer with an inline flexo station, a semi-rotary die-cutter that can change a job within one minute and process up to 70-m/min, and vision inspection systems. What is it called?
8. In July 2023, Apex International hosted a tech meet for the repro houses in order to highlight the challenges vis a vis anilox technology. Where was the session hosted?
9. During a tete-a-tete with WhatPackaging? magazine, the HP Indigo team shared the breaking news that their goal is to "build an HP Indigo press in India". On the occasion, they also spoke about two showstoppers at the Labelexpo show. Which two machines are these?
10. Which press has been installed in Satara and specialises in short-run flexibles?
Answers
1. It is Pravesha's second Weigang.
2. Creative Graphics Solutions. The group Creative has appointed Corporate Capital Ventures as the lead manager to drive the SME public issue.
3. Ecovadis. Letra has also won several awards, including two PrintWeek Awards and several Asian Packaging Excellence Awards in 2023.
4. Oceana Positive whose plant has a capacity to manufacture 40 lakh bottles daily.
5. Webtech Industries.
6. Pune-based Samyak installed a Lombardi Synchroline 430 mm wide eight-colour flexo press to meet the diversified needs of its client.
7. The Gallus One.
8. At the Apex production facility in Sinnar in Nashik.
9. The HP Indigo V12 and the HP Indigo 200k.
10. The FL3 from Edale has been installed at Suprint and Varad Print Pack.