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PACPROCESS-DRINKTECH 2019 SHOWDAILY 13 DECEMBER 2019 | SUPPORTED BY PACKAGING SOUTH ASIA & INDIFOODBEV Continued from page 1 – Tech-Long Packaging Machinery . . . Vithal Kalbate, regional director, Tech-Long packaging in-house. “We have a 100% subsidiary in India, the US and Europe. Our offices are in Ahmedabad and Mumbai. The Indian subsidiary started in 2011, and the company has been operating in the industry since 1998. As of now, we are importing the machines into India, and we also have a complete service solution in India as well,” said Vithal Kalbate, regional director, Tech-Long. The company will start its first machine manufacturing plant in India from 2021. “We have already acquired land in Ahmedabad for the plant,” Kalbate added. Tech-Long did not exhibit its machines but was actively selling its complete range of products at the Drink Technology India 2019 exhibition at Pragati Maidan in Delhi. Sharing his viewpoint on sustainable packaging, Kalbate said, “As a plastic packaging equipment supplier, we are also responsible for the collection of plastic waste and educating customers. But as of now, there is no way for lateral recycling of plastic. We try to provide machines that use the minimum amount of plastic in packaging. Besides, this is still the best way of providing hygienic and safe beverage packaging in India. But India is still among the smallest users of plastic in the world. The per capita plastic consumption is 11 kilograms while it is 109 kilograms in the US, which is far more than India.” METAL PACKAGING SHARE MIGHT GO UP IN THE FUTURE – HALL 11 STAND G36 Tinplate Company of India at pacprocess 2019 HARISH PENUMARTHI T he Tinplate Company of India, a part of the Tata Group, participated at the pacprocess 2019 event in Pra- gati Maidan, New Delhi. Of the overall packaging industry in India, only 10% belongs to met- al packaging and of this 10%, half is tinplate packaging and the remaining is metal packag- ing (including aluminum) per se. “A pressurized can is usu- ally aluminum and the non- pressurized metal cans, which require more strength, come under tinplate packaging. Tin- plate packaging is used in aer- osols, battery, packaged and processed food, oil and chemi- cals (pesticides and paints),” says Samadarshi Sarkar, assis- Samadarshi Sarkar, assistant manager, Services & Solutions, Tinplate Packaging India tant manager, Services & Solu- tions, Tinplate Packaging In- dia. The Tinplate Company of India has close to 40% share in tinplate packaging. Tinplate packaging is al- most 100% recyclable. A recy- cled tinplate packaging cannot be recycled back to its original form but can be processed into steel. Currently, the company works with close to 350 cus- tomers spread across the coun- try. These customers are either fabricators or fillers having an in-house fabrication facility. Tinplate packaging is gener- ally an 8-layer sandwich. There 3 is a steel substrate base and then comes two layers of tin, alloy tin and free tin followed by a chromic acid coating that is oiled on to the surface so that its scratch-proof. The Tin- plate Company is growing at a healthy rate of 5% to 6% every year. “Looking at the macro- economic factors, it seems that India is a promising market to progress in this field. With the ban on single-use plastics as a form of packaging, it seems likely that the consumption pattern of packaging goes back to the basics and we start using metal again,” explains Sarkar. Metal that was once a pri- mary form of packaging has now turned into a luxury item. “It is a perception that has come in because plastics are much cheaper to process. That gives packaging companies the perception that one can kill on the packaging costs with plas- tics. But if one takes the envi- ronmental impact of packaging into account and the cost of recycling it, it becomes much costlier than the metal alter- natives. Tinplate looks like a costly alternative upfront. But, the EPR initiative that vari- ous brand owners have been mandated to take up is going to raise the cost of plastic as a packaging material drastically,” shares Sarkar. Metal packaging has its ad- vantages and the biggest of all is its property of being pilfer- proof. However bad one drops a can, it’s very rare that it would leak. On the other hand, a plastic jar dropped from the same height may rupture. The Tinplate Company received a decent footfall on the first day and is looking to generate more trade inquiries in the coming days. Packaging South Asia will again cover Metpack in Essen in Germany. The 2020 edition of the metal packaging fair takes place from 5 to 9 May 2020. PSA will cover interpack 2020 in Dusseldorf from 7 to 13 May as well. For editorial and marketing team, it will be our 4th Metpack and 7th Interpack events.

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