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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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