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Developing and developed countries vary in many aspects. Some of these include per capita income, technological infrastructure, living conditions, and industrialization. All these factors together impact how packaging is manufactured and supplied in the market.
In this blog, we will focus on packaging trends and practices in developing countries.
A developing country is one with a low human development index and low rates of industrial growth. It is primarily dependent on the service industry for the generation of its income.
Despite unsystematic economical growth, the packaging industry continues to grow in most developing countries due to the increasing demand for the food and beverage market. The discrepancy between global technological progress and industrial development backed by required infrastructure in developing countries is what leads to unmet standards of quality and delivery and ultimately, a dissatisfied population.
When it comes to sourcing raw material as well as a finished product in terms of packaging, more emphasis is on reducing cost and less on ensuring quality. Local suppliers are preferred in contrast to international vendors.
At the production stage, large secondary packages are preferred to make the manual filling process easier and more efficient. Manual processes lead to inconsistencies. Additionally, larger packages increase the risk of damaging contained goods during transport.
Lack of adequate machinery and pallet size standardization in the warehousing stage, and the overall lack of resources to invest in capital-intensive pallet results in inefficient stacking and damaged goods.
In developing countries, national regulations and laws sometimes also tend to curb or limit trade access. The lack of incentive to upgrade to newer and better technology is exacerbated by inadequate support facilities. The inability of the majority of consumers to afford upgraded technology further demotivates packaging designers and manufacturers.
Low-wage, working-class populations are unable to afford bulk packaged food and other necessities.
NEXT STEPS
Historically, food security and widespread hunger have been critical issues within developing countries. An important step in actively combatting this issue would be to reduce food losses. Packaging plays an important role in strategizing this reduction.
While developed countries experience greater losses in the post-retail stage of the supply chain of food, developing countries encounter losses at the production, transportation, and storage stages. This difference is primarily due to varying behaviors and attitudes in terms of affordability and interaction between the product and consumer.
All these factors collectively combined with the large volume of production in the agricultural food sector in developing market economies, therefore, offer a potentially huge market for investment for the international packaging industry.
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Along with the global medical device market, the Indian medical device market has also observed steady growth. GlobalData’s research reveals that India’s medical devices market accounted for around 25 percent of the Asia-Pacific market in 2021.
India is a key market for medical device outsourcing. This industry has seen tremendous growth over the last few years. Several joint ventures, agreements, and loan licensing procedures have influenced the market and caught the eye of foreign manufacturers.
Key Growth Drivers of the Market
Challenges for the Indian Medical Device Market
In 2017, the Medical Devices Rules aligned the country’s regulatory structure with Global Harmonization Task Force (GHTF) guidelines requiring a four-way risk-based classification of medical devices while also granting perpetual licenses to manufacturers subject to fresh application and retention every five years. From a foreign manufacturer, these rules did away with the requirement for registration and the appointment of a local authorized agent became sufficient to facilitate imports into the country.
The Medical Device Amendment Rules 2020 laid down mandatory registration with appropriate authorities with different timelines for each class of equipment with infused not only transparency but also assures the quality of the products.
Means of Strengthening Indian Medical Device Market and Becoming Self-Reliant
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