Constantia-Parikh’s new Rs. 100 crore plant for flexo printed PE films

At Plastindia 2018, Constantia Flexibles showcased 4 categories of packaging solutions nether the motto 'Packaging Unleashed' — Interactive Packaging, Pharma, Sustainability and Innovations. The Austrian flexible packaging solutions provider also announced plans at the event to aggrandize production capacity of its Indian subsidiary Parikh Packaging, in Ahmedabad, Gujarat with a Rs. 100 crore investment in a new greenfield establish.

The company broke footing in mid-2017, at the new greenfield site close to the existing Parikh product plant. Already under construction, the new institute's beginning production line will consist of a polyethylene blown film extruder, a high-definition wide web CI flexo printing press and laminators to produce loftier bulwark laminates that tin be fully recycled.

"Our investment strengthens Parikh Packaging's credentials as a leading provider of innovation and service to customers in the Indian subcontinent," states Stefan Grote, executive vice president of the nutrient division at Constantia Flexibles. "Major FMCGs are enervating the highest level of sustainability for their packaging material and they will accept to comply with upcoming Indian Plastic Waste material Direction (PWM) regulations that promote only fully recyclable flexible packaging."

Parikh Packaging has been part of Constantia Flexibles since 2013, and its production unit in Ahmedabad includes rotogravure press machines, PE extruders, various lamination technologies and pouch making. The full ISO-certified supplier to the domestic and global food HPC markets has more 500 employees.

"In India, sustainability is a huge upshot. We were working for the concluding three years to develop a structure which tin can be fully recycled. We take developed a laminate which will come from a unmarried family so that you can easily recycle it and at the same time it will have bulwark properties like those of multilayers laminates. Thus we take taken care of both sustainability and barrier properties," says Pavan Parikh, director and vice president, Parikh Packaging.

Constantia Flexibles stand at Plastindia 2018. Photo PSA

Parikh informed us that Parikh Packaging's customers will not take to change any technology at their end and will not have to undergo any capital expenditure to use the new laminate. "This will be a win-win state of affairs for all stakeholders," he says.

The new establish will come up on stream in 2022 and supply flexible packaging to leading multinationals in the nutrient and abode and personal care (HPC) production industries in Bharat. Parikh Packaging has been conducting trials of the new laminate with its Indian customers and, according to Parikh, the initial feedback has been very skillful. "I am positive that one time the laminate is in the market, brand owners will accept it. We expect that segments such as detergent powders and seeds to be the showtime movers," Parikh shares.

Parikh also believes that every bit recyclable laminates gain traction in the Indian market, employment generation can get a massive boost every bit brand owners work with collection agents and the wider recycling industry. "This will give a big push to Indian recycling industry and I recollect in side by side 3 to five years a big number of people can exist employed in this manufacture," he argues.

Quick expansion at the new constitute
To begin with the new institute will have i line with a single CI flexo press only the expansion is expected to be rapid. Parikh says that the 2d line is planned to be added inside three to four months of the start of production. "The plan is to ultimately take 3 to iv lines," he says.

Interactive packaging from Constantia
Leveraging the growing digitization wave, Constantia Flexibles has developed Constantia Interactive – packaging solutions for interactive packaging in the nutrient and pharmaceutical industries, that were displayed at Plastindia 2018. Constantia Interactive opens a multitude of digital communications and marketing opportunities by turning the packaging itself into a communication channel.

"Brands want to collaborate with customers and are looking to make packaging 'wow' again. So, we came up with the idea of interactive packaging," says Thomas Schulz, who looks after food marketing and is group vice president of the Constantia Flexibles group at Plastindia.

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