Indian institute of packaging, new delhi centre organized a one day national seminar packaging for emerging markets at the claridges, new delhi. The seminar was the great success and new ideas were presented by india's leading packaging experts. Www.packagingconnections.com was the media partner to the seminar. The key note address by mr davinder singh: business head, cavinkare gave a good start and had built up lot of expectations fro the seminar. He basically declared that packaging has been a game changer and he proved his point with live examples in india and worldwide which audience could related. You can download the presentation at http://www.packagingconnections.com/downloads/packaging%20for%20emerging%20markets%20[read-only].pdf
Then there were many interesrting presentations on various packaging innovations for the emerging markets like my mr santanu chowdhury; associate director of ranbaxy labs ltd, a story of metal packaging by mr saket bhtia of rexam hindustan tin works where he nicely showed how metal is 1005 recyclable and what are the new trends for the emerging market. The show was attended by senior industry leaders and the various cross functions. It was great to see so many alumnus of indian institute of packaging. During the seminar, the current director of indian institute of packaging: prof n c saha also announced that indian institute of packaging is now working on b.tech & m.tech in packaging technology. Let us see how far and how fast he succeeds to get this moving as there had been many attempts in the last 25 years but nothing visible to the post graduate students of indian institute of packaging is seen till date. Its again the nice initiative and we at packagingconnections wish him good luck and full support. This is important for the better development of packaging for the emerging markets