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125 Years of the Corrugated Packaging Industry |
The booming Indian economy and a
flourishing organised retail have raised the expectations
that consumption of corrugated
packaging will begin to expand again as the number
and volume of goods packaged in
corrugated increases. MNCs are demanding corrugated
boxes of international standards and
the pattern of buying the packaging is changing.
Prices of corrugated sheet and
converted boxes have remained low due to the over-capacity,
manual operations and low productivity.
Besides, transport constraints and high
freight costs have meant that small to
medium sized corrugated box plants are located
near the customers.
The over 4,000 corrugated board and
sheet plants are highly labour-intensive, employing over half a million
people – both directly and indirectly.
The industry is converting about 2
million tons of Kraft paper into corrugated boxes.
Factories are spreadout in all parts of
India, even in the remote industrially backward
areas.
This present scenario is already being
challenged by the sweeping changes
that are beginning to take shape. More
and more in-line automatic plants are being
set up, as corrugated box makers gear
up to meet the new demands for high precision
boxes with attractive graphics and
large integrated production capacities.
Future
Trends
a.. Increasing demand and high volumes
will trigger consolidation and
setting up of large automatic plants.
b.. Inline Automatic Board and Box
making plants will
ease out the present semi automatic
production processes.
c.. Deployment of Folder
Gluers, Rotary Diecutters will be on
the increase.
d.. Use of corrugated for
display/promotional
packs, POPs and dispensers.
e.. Advances in multicolour, flexo
printing will facilitate
in-house flexo printing and do away
with screen printing, contract printing on offset
presses.
f.. The emergence of e-commerce,
reverse bidding, concept of First Pak
will give large scale units the
advantage of competitiveness and the concept of
locating corrugated box units nearer to
user locations will become obsolete.
g..
Large Corporates and Bulk users of
corrugated boxes looking for single/multiple
alternative vendors – capable of
meeting stringent specifications, offering alternative
designs, test-in-time deliveries at
optimum cost.
h.. Growing interest in machines
made in China, Taiwan and other Asian
countries.
i.. Many machinery manufacturers
entering into alliances with Chinese,
Taiwanese manufacturers for manufacturing/marketing.
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Source:http://www.fcbm.org/industry_overview.html
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