Packaging propels Thai plastics

摘要

Despite challenging times for the country's auto and appliance sectors, Thailand's plastic packaging processors are showing resilience, as evidenced by activities at the recent Tiprex show in Bangkok. Thailand happens to be the main market for Windmoller & Holscher (W&H; Lengerich, Germany) in Southeast Asia, and its second biggest in all of Asia. "The country's technological needs . are constantly rising in line with demand for increasingly higher-quality and higher-performance packaging," according to Michael Fischer, managing director, Asia Pacific. One example of this is the recent delivery of a 10-color Miraflex flexo-graphic printing press to Prepack Thailand (Bangkok). The print width is 1450 mm and speed is up to 370 m/min.