Bringing sustainability back to the front burner

In the by year of living carefully in the shadow of Covid-19, the packaging industry has been ane of the fortunate exceptions in the economy with continued growth and capacity edifice. The suppliers of film, board, liner, or labelstock or those of gravure, label and offset presses and converting equipment for flexibles, corrugated, and carton packaging have washed well. The packaging press and converting suppliers have delivered on notable projects that were in the pipeline. The filling and sealing segments have also added considerable chapters.

The ambitious capacity building in the Indian packaging industry continues with conventionalities renewed by the pandemic in both the necessity of Indian packaging and its still considerable headroom for growth. With plans fabricated and, in many cases, equipment with long lead times on order, a great deal of capacity building is in progress for the coming two years. However, the question being asked – even past sellers of equipment, engineering, and raw materials, is whether nosotros take sidelined packaging sustainability. This discipline was on the front burner at the finish of 2022 and the start of 2020.

In the final year, many adept commentators have pointed out that at that place is the danger of arriving at the new normal by taking the 'Covid featherbed.' Will the economical recovery and the packaging industry'due south prosperity overlook the tough questions of waste collection, sorting at source, and recycling packaging in India? Will sustainability remain just lip service and greenwashing while each textile and segment champions its virtuous green credentials to the detriment of others?

The Covid-19 pandemic has taught us that it is ane of a series of recurring events in which we have peradventure irreparably damaged our natural world. Consumers are aware of the crisis widely and are demanding hygiene and condom in products and sustainability, wiser use of finite resources, and recyclable and recycled packaging.

In contempo surveys, a majority of consumers not only believe that improving food condom is the responsibility of manufacturers, they see it equally the number 1 issue that companies need to tackle now and in the future. They are no longer satisfied with the possibility, and they are enervating aseptic and sustainable packaging with recycled content now.

As y'all bring together us today from India and elsewhere, nosotros have a favour to ask. Through these times of ambiguity and challenge, the packaging industry in India and in well-nigh parts of the world has been fortunate. We are now read in more than ninety countries as our coverage widens and increases in bear upon. Our traffic as per analytics more doubled in 2022 and many readers chose to back up us financially even when advertising fell to pieces.

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