Covid-19 human challenge trials – can they help?
The Covid-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus still poses an extraordinary threat to public health worldwide....
IDFC loan to Kodak for pharma ingredients hits a snag
The US$ 765 loan IDFC loan to Kodak for producing pharma ingredients seems to have hit a...
NCLAT sets aside Ricoh India acquisition by Dharamshi-Jhunjhunwala consortium
The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal has emphatically overturned or set aside the NCLT approved deal that...
Epson to merge its Italian digital textile printing subsidiaries
In beginning August 2020, Epson has announced that its textile subsidiary companies in Italy, Fratelli Robustelli S.r.l....
Kamal Vyas 13.10.1960 – 8.7.2020
Kamal Vyas passed away in Jodhpur on the night of 8 July 2020. He was sixty years...
Webinar – Unlock the Covid-19 impact on the processing and packaging...
The world is facing an unprecedented challenge as the economies everywhere, including India are affected by the...
Industry requires better leadership even in the better times to come
The second advanced estimates released on 28 February 2018 by the Central Statistics Office suggest that the...
Zombies in the age of the Coronavirus
In a recent article in The Times of India, Ruchir Sharma wrote about ‘zombie’ companies. These are...
Sustainability, Indian manufacture and high technology at Plastindia 2018
Although packaging mavens claim that plastic packaging represents 38 to 40% of the plastics industry in India, our own feeling is that the data requires improvement in terms of collection, analysis and validation. Since packaging is generally described as
The New Plastics Economy
The third installment of our series on Circular Economies focuses exclusively on The New Plastics Economy initiative. In this article, we will review and quote extensively from the