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It’s a busy July for the IPP Group. Packaging South Asia is involved with the PackPlus09 exhibition in Pragati Maidan in Delhi from 8 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 4 U event on 9 and 10 July.

IppStar’s idea is to give the packaging industry a joint human resource platform to project itself as a large and fast growing high technology area with excellent opportunities for the best young people. The Careers 4 U program at PackPlus 09 is to initiate a discussion on the career issues and challenges faced by the HR managers in packaging and related companies and ambitious executive level personnel.

On the morning of 9 July 2009 we will conduct a free of charge seminar led by HR thought leaders from both outside and inside our industry aimed at executive level engagement. On 10 July 2009, a few select companies will make presentations to perspective personnel about the opportunities on offer. See page 44 and for more information please visit — www.ippstar.org.

This issue features our first PackPlus 09 Preview, which will be followed by a more comprehensive PackPlus 09 Preview in our July-August 2009 PackPlus special issue to be released in the beginning of July. These previews are a part of our magazine’s effort as a trade journal to add value to exhibitions. To facilitate visitors going directly to the stands of their keenest interest and to help exhibitors attract serious footfalls — potential clients who will spend quality time with them and increase the ROI from their participation in exhibitions. Hopefully that is, instead of having visitors wander the length and breadth of Pragati Maidan in Delhi’s July heat or not come at all. Exhibitors who have missed out can send their information for the special issue and much of this will be uploaded to our website daily and in our weekly email newsletters if you register at — www.packagingsouthasia.com
IppStar is organising another important event later in the month — the Monsoon Summit on ISO 12647 implementation and certification that will take place on 14 July in New Delhi, 16 July in Mumbai and  18 July in Chennai. The one-day intensives in New Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai will provide commercial and packaging printers with a comprehensive understanding of the ISO 12647 standard and the implications of its implementation. They will learn what the standard consists of, why it should be applied, what the implementation and certification process entails, how long it will take, and which prerequisites, costs and benefits are to be expected. More on page 42 and www.ippstar.org

Tetra Pak Dairy Index
The first issue of the Tetra Pak Dairy Index, a bi-annual PDF newsletter has been released in June 2009. Among the findings in the Tetra Pak Dairy Index at that over the past four years 95.8 per cent of the growth in the global dairy industry is from emerging markets such as India, Pakistan, the Middle East and China. Milk consumption in India has risen by CAGR of 2.7 per cent over the past four years and packed milk grew at a CAGR of 4.7 per cent over the same period.  In the global trends stated in the dairy index, consumers were more anxious in the developing countries than the developed countries when asked about food safety and food storage.

The market spotlight is on India, which holds the dual distinction as both the world’s top milk producer and the world’s largest milk consumer. What we saw in the dairy index are problems in the supply chain. For example, while India enjoys the largest cattle and buffalo population in the world, its productivity for each animal is the lowest in the world. Productivity for each cow is less than half the world average — just 1000 kilograms a year compared to a world average of 2038 kilograms a year. It is the supply chain, the national milk grid setup nearly 40 years ago, which is highly efficient. It collects milk daily from nearly 70 million dairy farmers spread across India. 

Currently 65 per cent of all milk consumed in India is unpackaged. Over the last four years, consumption of milk and other liquid dairy products sold in pasteurised plastic pouches in India has grown at a rate of 4.5 per cent annually while milk sold in cartons has grown at a rate of 24.6 per cent annually. Download the PDF from www.tetrapak.com .

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