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The IppStar Print Industry Survey 2010 - 2011 — Since 2007 at Ipp Services, Training, and Research (IppStar) when we got a chance to talk about our research of the printing, publishing and packaging vertical, we spoke about the bricks and mortar growth of the this industry. According to our estimates in the three financial years from 2005-06 to the 2008-09, more than 300 purpose built plants were built by our industry. Generally built outside cities in large industrial parks or special economic zones or even further away in recently converted agricultural land.

Down-gauging and the environment — Looking at recent draft proposal by the government to ban multilayer plastics (as published in the November-December 2009 issue of Packaging South Asia) and the rising price of crude oil which has touched an 18 month high now, what can the packaging industry do? Down-gauging — reducing the amount of material in a product while still maintaining or even improving the properties of a material that has been used by converters to reduce cost for many years. With highly competitive FMCG markets and rising crude oil prices it seems converters will again have to look at down-gauging their films to compete on cost. This will have an inadvertent side effect, less plastic will be used and what will be used will be thinner.

Editorial — Can milk drive food processing and packaging in India? — In a statement made to the Lok Sabha in end-November 2009, KV Thomas the Minister of State for Agriculture said that milk production in the country is planned to be raised to 180 million tonnes by the 2021-22 financial year. This would not mean any great increase from the annual growth rate of 3.9% in the past decade. Nonetheless, the National Dairy Plan of the government
drawn up by the National Dairy Development Board has an outlay of Rs. 17,371 crore over the next fifteen years to increase the productivity of this sector.

In India flexible packaging is not only larger in value terms than fibre-based packaging but its proponents also claim that it is growing faster than all other types of packaging. While this may be true, the recycling of plastic packaging and in fact all types of packaging and waste is neither organised nor efficient, notwithstanding the myth that, everything in India is recycled either because it is re-used or because there are so many poor people who work as scanvengers and refuse collectors and sell the waste for a living.”

In India flexible packaging is not only larger in value terms than fibre-based packaging but its proponents also claim that it is growing faster than all other types of packaging. While this may be true, the recycling of plastic packaging and in fact all types of packaging and waste is neither organised nor efficient, notwithstanding the myth that, everything in India is recycled either because it is re-used or because there are so many poor people who work as scanvengers and refuse collectors and sell the waste for a living.”

We have visited some label and packaging plants in the last month and asked the owners the perennial questions – How badly was packaging affected by the economic downturn? which segments or sectors were hurt, if any? What is the situation now and do you the see the market trengthening?

The arrival of the monsoon has been enough for the government to raise petrol and diesel prices in their bid to further align retail with oil procurement prices. However we are counting on the rain to stop at 6 am every morning so that the several events that we are doing around the country can keep to schedule.

Packaging South Asia is at the PackPlus09 exhibition in Pragati maidan in Delhi from 8 to 11 July in Hall 13 Stand number 77. This special issue features our second Pack Plus 09 Preview, which will be followed by a comprehensive PackPlus 09 Review in our September-October issue.

It’s a busy July for the IPP Group. Packaging South Asia is involved with the PackPlus09 exhibition in Pragati Maidan in Delhi from8 to 11 July. Packaging South Asia will be in Hall 13 Stand number 77.
IppStar – Ipp Services Training and Research will be organising a special human resources area at the PackPlus event with the help of the organisers and some of the educational and industry institutions in Hall 11 Stand 49.Within this area IppStar will organise a Careers 4Uevent on 9 and 10 July.

In 2001 the IPP Group, which at the time consisted of
the monthly trade magazine Indian Printer and Publisher
and the IPP Conferences, created a neworganisation
called IPP Services, Training and Research Private
Limited. IppStar as it is known has several aims for
creating an industry-supported institution for the printing,
publishing, and packaging segments.

The year 2008 could justifiably be termed the “horribilest” in recent memory for corporate finances and market capitalisation. According to an estimate, some US$ 14 trillion was wiped off world share values during the year and many venerable institutions and so-called bulwarks — especially financial companies — bit the dust, went broke or had to be resuscitated with financial sops and/or massive doses of injection of government funds.

PackagingSouthAsia.com is bimonthly online trade magazine. Packaging South Asia in print in the beginning of 2007.

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