BIS National Seminar Highlights Latest Trends in the Field of Printing Machinery
24 January 2026: The Mechanical Engineering Department (MED) of the Bureau of Indian Standards recently organized a National Seminar on “Latest Trends in the Field of Printing Machinery” on January 8, 2026 at National Centre for Flexible Electronics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (NCFlexE, IIT Kanpur), with around 100 participants from academia, industry, R&D institutions, and government departments.
The seminar commenced with insightful inaugural and keynote addresses highlighting the critical role of Indian Standards in ensuring safety, quality, interoperability, and global competitiveness of printing machinery. The technical sessions offered in-depth discussions on Indian Standards in printing machinery and latest technologies in the field like Computer to Plate (CtP) Offset Machines, Printed Electronics, etc.
Overall, the seminar served as a valuable knowledge-sharing platform, strengthening collaboration between standards bodies, industry, and academia, and reinforcing the importance of standardization in driving innovation, sustainability, and growth in the printing machinery sector. Participants appreciated the initiative and recommended organizing similar seminars in the future to stay aligned with evolving technologies and standards.
BIS is the National Standard Body of India established under the BIS Act 2016 for the harmonious development of the activities of standardization, marking and quality certification of goods and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. BIS has been providing traceability and tangibility benefits to the national economy in a number of ways – providing safe reliable quality goods; minimizing health hazards to consumers; promoting exports and imports substitute; control over proliferation of varieties etc. through standardization, certification and testing.
The Centre of Excellence ….
The National Centre for Flexible Electronics (NCFlexE) was set up as a Centre of Excellence at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur in 2014 with financial support from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India and IIT Kanpur. The vision of this Centre is to catalyse the development of domestic industry in the field of large area flexible electronics, and this vision is being executed with the Centre serving as a bridge between the academic ecosystem and the industrial ecosystem. Conduct research and development in large area flexible electronics that serves as a foundation for development of domestic industry in this field.
– 1,600 – Outreach to companies in various sectors.
– 1000 m2+ – Cleanroom with facility for wet processing, lithography and bio-material processing.
– 100+ – Highly skilled and culturally diverse team.
https://www.ncflexe.in/
