The Tinplate Promotion Council held the quaternary edition of Cannovation, one of the premier events in Asia on tinplate packaging in Mumbai on 27 February 2015

Automation in convertingAtlas Converting plans Indian expansionFor Britain-based Atlas Converting Equipment, which manufactures Atlas Titan slitter-rewinders, the response at Plastindia 2022 was good as the company managed to meet its one-time customers and some potential customers. In India the company has an installation base close to 140 machines. With economic conditions in Bharat improving, things are expected to look up.Barrie Homewood, sales and marketing director, Titan slitter-rewinder. Photo PSA"The concluding 18 months have been challenging for the company in India just the state of affairs has improved in the concluding few months," said Barrie Homewood, sales and marketing managing director, Titan slitter-rewinder. "Some of the customers who we accept served in the last few years are moving to the next phase of investment and expansion."

Although no machine was displayed at Plastindia, the company was promoting products from across the Titan and Atlas portfolio. Talking near the visitor's Indian operations, Homewood disclosed, "We are planning to expand the team hither. In that location are currently three engineers and one sales person. India is 1 of our bigger markets and we expect that the strength of the team here volition continue to grow."

Commenting on the trends in the Indian flexible packaging industry, he said that the near prominent one was that more and more players are moving towards faster and high technology machines. "A large majority is still using tiresome and low technology machines in India but that trend is changing driven by the need for quality, consistency and low downtime. The skillful affair is that there are now lots of Indian machine manufacturers making top quality machines catering to local need."

"The demand for automation is as well driven past the fact that the size of the spider web is getting smaller as well as the thickness is going down. Automation helps one in working on smaller and thinner web because manual work may be prone to errors," ended Homewood.

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