Careers in Packaging Sector

Indian packaging industry has been consistently touching double digit figure year on year. India is rated as forth largest packaging market in the world with huge untapped potential. The increasing presence of MNC companies in India, the fast food culture adopted and driven by companies like McDonalds, KFC, BIKANERWALA, HALDIRAMS etc, the growing concerns on increase in plastic consumption had paved way to bring new packaging trends to India.

The retails sector is quick in adopting to the new ways of packing, accepting and implementing the change from evolving from Metal packaging to PET/HDPE packaging and now towards paperboard.

The explosive growth in Ecommerce, the growing demand to provide better food processing and packaging systems also driving the packaging growth. Given the vast scope of westernization in India and growing trend toward eco friendly products acceptance by consumers this industry is here to sustain many decades to come. The paperboard as a raw material is the one of the best material for customizing as per industry requirement the paperboard manufacturers and printers offers lot of careers options in production, operations and marketing.

Institutes like Indian Institute of packaging had rolled out short and long term courses suitable to packaging industry. Many industries top players like ITC, JK and century had gone to expansion to tap the demand while Emami and Tamilnadu Newsprint and Papers limited (TNPL) are on advance stages to set up paperboard production units to capture the Packaging market in India

So, please lookout for career openings in this sector also.

The Paperboard companies to look out:

ITC paperboard

JK Paper

Century

Emami

Tamilnadu Newsprint and Papers Limited

Please regularly check the above company websites to explore opportunities with them, i will also update you with the career opportunities in these companies.