Packaging Talks

In this episode of Packaging Talks, Rhea Singhal in conversation with Dr.Rangaprasad talks about her entrepreneurial journey, genesis of her company Ecoware - India’s first and largest sustainable packaging company, challenges in standardizing bio-based and compostable packaging and her vision for driving women empowerment and high social impact. 

About Rhea Singhal

Rhea Mazumdar Singhal is the Founder and CEO of Ecoware. Ecoware created a new packaging paradigm in India that recognized a natural, eco-friendly and easily affordable alternative to commoditsed single-use plastics. Rhea is a Nari Shakti Puraskar awardee, the country’s highest civilian honor for women by the President of India and Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. Rhea holds various honorary positions in organisations championing women empowerment and sustainability.

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Packaging Talks is a podcast designed for the packaging industry by Packaging 360.

Welcome to this special two part Episode of Packaging Talks. In this episode Ashwini Deshpande, Co-Founder of Elephant Design, India’s largest integrated design consultancy speaks to Dr. Rangaprasad on a wide range of topics.

In this second part Ashwini recreates the emotion & joy associated with PaperBoat, one of the most successful brands in the F&B market. Ashwini also makes critical observations regarding “Sustainability” of packaging materials & how this issue is addressed from a designer’s point of view.

If you missed the first part, you can listen to it here.

About Ashwini Deshpande

1989 graduate of National Institute of Design, along with 2 co-founders, she leads Elephant, India's largest independent integrated design consultancy with offices in India & Singapore. Elephant was ranked as No 1 Design Agency by The Economic Times Brand Equity reckoner in consistently including 2019.

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Packaging Talks is a podcast designed for the packaging industry by Packaging 360.

Welcome to this special two part Episode of Packaging Talks. In this episode Ashwini Deshpande, Co-Founder of Elephant Design, India’s largest integrated design consultancy speaks to Dr. Rangaprasad on a wide range of topics.

In this first part of the episode, Ashwini explains the genesis Elephant Designs and the inspiration behind adopting the name She shares insights about key factors they thinking about when evolving a design for a brand owner. The final design is a combination of many factors like the nature of the product, target customer, feedback on consumer buying behaviour and more.

Do tune in to the second part on Packaging Talks next week, where Ashwini recreates the emotion & joy associated with PaperBoat, one of the most successful brands in the F&B market. Ashwini also makes critical observations regarding “Sustainability” of packaging materials & how this issue is addressed from a designer’s point of view.

About Ashwini Deshpande

A 1989 graduate of National Institute of Design, along with 2 co-founders, she leads Elephant, India's largest independent integrated design consultancy with offices in India & Singapore. Elephant was ranked as No 1 Design Agency by The Economic Times Brand Equity reckoner in consistently including 2019.

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Packaging Talks is a podcast designed for the packaging industry by Packaging 360.

In this episode of Packaging Talks, Dr. Avi Chaudhari, International expert on anticounterfeiting & security labels, in conversation with Dr.R. Rangaprasad emphasizes What brand owners should consider in terms deploying a technology on the packaging line. He reiterates there are brand protection technologies that can work with the existing package without any modification.

He explains When security labels are useful and should be considered as a brand protection solution. He also addresses a critical issue about how Brand owners rarely want to let the public know that their products are being targeted by counterfeiters & known effective ways to protect the brand without disclosing the problem to the public.

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Packaging Talks, designed by Packaging 360 has been selected as one of the Top 20 Packaging Industry Podcasts on the web by Feedpost.

In this episode, Erik Mansson (CEO - Innoscentia), in conversation with Dr. Rangaprasad, describes the journey of his start up & vision. Innoscentia aspires to be a solution provider in both analogue & digital mode to communicate “Best before Date”, especially for the meat industry.

Food wastage is a global issue & warrants solutions based on technology. Erik sees immense applications of the sensor technology developed by Innoscentia, backed by strong R&D.

Innoscentia is conscious of the vast potential Indian food industry offers & the capability to adopt technology to eliminate food waste & provide value to end users.

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Packaging Talks is a podcast designed for the packaging industry by Packaging 360.

Sainath Jain founder of Hivado speaks passionately about his concept & ideas for men’s skin care & grooming.

During this conversation, Sainath reveals how men from 18 to 60 are becoming increasingly conscious about skin care & are looking for new products which cater to this need. Men from metro cities to distant rural interiors now explore online for novel products.

He also highlights the challenges faced during the start up journey & how they have overcome them to establish a market niche.

Sainath also is conscious of the importance of packaging in designing, branding to attract customers in an attention span of 30 seconds during an online search. He is also committed to address sustainability issues in the packaging formats deployed at Hivado.

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Packaging Talks is a podcast designed for the packaging industry by Packaging 360.

Industry 4.0 & its associated terms IIOT, IOT are all set to capture the attention of production managers & decision makers to maximize productivity, efficiency of shop floor practices & enhance profitability.

In this episode of Packaging Talks, Mario Ishikawa from PackIOT shares that the new generation tools only enable operators & CEO’s to contribute towards minimizing factory waste. Mario also reiterates that these tools will never displace human skills ; in fact implementation of these tools require skilled engineers, which is abundant in India. 

At PackIOT, Mario guides the development of apps and systems that help packaging industries to improve their efficiency and reduce scrap costs through an end to end analytics system.

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Packaging Talks is a podcast designed for the packaging industry by Packaging 360.

In this episode of Packaging Talks powered by HP, Manan Chandok and Reena Yadav in conversation with Dr.R.Rangaprasad of Packaging360, trace the legacy of the company.

They discuss the motivation towards adopting digital printing technology and in the process have built core competence in short runs to meet customer requirements. The lockdown situation presented numerous logistical challenges, however with the power of digital printing by HP Indigo they rose to the occasion and were able to serve not only large brands, but also upcoming brands in healthcare & cosmetics sector.

Manan & Reena also share the company’s vision & growth plans for the future. Digistik pride themselves in being a startup for startups.

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Packaging Talks is a podcast designed for the packaging industry by Packaging 360.

In this episode of Packaging Talks, Sriman Banerjee - global expert in pharmaceutical packaging - shares his knowledge & experience on diverse subjects including worldwide trends, importance of packaging, storage transportation in the successful delivery of COVID-19 vaccine. He also emphasizes the value proposition of smart & intelligent packaging for the benefit of the community.

Sriman is the Head of Packaging Development & CDE at Takeda Pharmaceuticals Company Ltd, based out of Boston, USA and has over 22 years of extensive global experience in primary, secondary packaging and device development. 

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Packaging Talks is a podcast designed for the packaging industry by Packaging 360.

In this episode of Packaging Talks in a conversation with Dr Rangaprasad, Prashant shares his thoughts on the journey of Trayak starting with his initial work with brand owners & how he became interested in Packaging & the waste generation issues.

He describes the development of LCA to qualify sustainable packaging & adoption by leading FMCG & F&B brands. 

He also gives a sneak preview of the future of sustainability in the packaging industry.

Packaging Talks is a podcast designed for the packaging industry by Packaging 360.