Conventionally Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) and Bi-axially Oriented Polyamide, BOPA (commonly known as BON) films have been extensively used in cold formed pharma packaging industry. A typical Alu – Alu blister laminate comprises three layers i.e. 25 micron BOPA/ 60 micron soft aluminium foil / 60 micron PVC.
"The government has ambitious plans of doubling the current per capita consumption of plastics from the present 10 kg per person to 20 kg per person by 2022," Dharmendra Pradhan said at the 'Indian Oil Petrochemical Conclave 2016' here.
Arvind Singhania, CMD of Ester Industries, in an interview with CNBC-TV18’s Reema Tendulkar and Ekta Batra, spoke about the ban of plastic on the gutkha industry and how will it impact the packaging companies going forward.
Ester Industries came out with its Q3 results of FY11. The company has reported a sales turnover of Rs 198.32 crore and net profit of Rs 54.81 crore for the quarter ended Dec '10. For the quarter ended Dec 2009, the sales turnover was Rs 96.52 crore and net profit was Rs 5.81 crore.