Progressive PET Packaging Trends in India

Over the past two decades, India has witnessed revolutionary strides in the packaging sector, courtesy

the application of polymer science and technology. The formulated material named polyethylene

terephthalate (PET) has literally injected a shot in the arm to the modes of packaging thousands of

products around the globe including India. These have ranged from consumer durables to industrial

products. These trends have eclipsed the traditional and conventional materials of yore like glass,

aluminium, tin and ceramics. Simultaneously, the makers of the packed products have immensely

gained as evident from their cash registers ringing frequently!

A remarkable hallmark in these developments has been that within a decade of the ‘Open Economy’

and the LPG (liberalisation-privatisation-globalisation) that the former Prime Minister Manmohan

Singh mooted in 1991 when he was the Finance Minister, there emerged a robust spirit of

entrepreneurship in the packing industry. It was a thorough acceptance of PET as the medium by the

industry. By 2002, total packaging volumes for consumer packaging in India had reached the figure of

39,906 million units and currently it must have multiplied.

With more and more Indians becoming health conscious as well as wielding higher purchasing power,

PET and HDPE bottling turned out to be the indices of hygiene packaging. Even a man on the street is

concerned about the quality of water, the safety and standard of cooking oil and calorie intake etc. and

the preference is always for products which are sold in packed containers. These aspects depend on

high grade PET preform molds and dies and would continue to be so for all times to come.

On this score, the entrepreneurs in India who had ventured into the design, development and

manufacture of these molds proved their mettle by their artistry of precision in engineering. Their

products were not only greatly appreciated not only at home but also abroad. All these achievements

were recorded in less than 20 years. Thus today, in the context of PET mould manufacturers India

can boast of world class experts.

These companies have mastered the techniques of mold preforms ranging from 6 to 720 grams and also

with 72 cavitations. Although indigenous, the applications of these have been perfect to gel with

numerous machines of foreign make, be they Canadian, Japanese, German or Chinese. These are

optimized for highest level as for speed, cavitations and also in terms of volumes. A notable hallmark

of this industry in India has been the quality of balanced hot runners for consistent cavity-to-cavity

filling alongside maintaining melt channel sizing analysis, shear rate and pressure at the utmost level.

The overall impact of this PET-based packaging revolution incorporating innovative designs and

colours could be gauged from the fact that the market of FMCG and numerous other products has

registered a significant growth rate. Apart from longer shelf value for each of these items,

transportation costs have drastically come down because of the light weight of PET containers. They

have superior barrier qualities as well as happen to be leak-proof. Indeed, all these signs augur well for

the Indian economy.

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