Huhtamaki PPL to set up plants for flexible packaging and labels in NE India

Similarly, Webtech Labels’ new label manufacturing plant in Sikkim is expected to come on-stream during the first half of 2017. Meanwhile, Huhtamaki PPL has also decided to relocate the main label manufacturing unit of Webtech Labels, located at Mahape (Navi Mumbai) that primarily caters to pharma companies, to a new state of the art facility in the Greater Mumbai region by the end of 2017. Webtech Labels, which is in business of printing self-adhesive labels in roll form, is one of the largest manufacturers of labels in the country with a production capacity of over 5 million labels per day. 

The flexible packaging industry has been witnessing robust demand due to the fast-growing consumer goods market in the country. Generally, the flexible packaging sector grows in sync with the FMCG sector growth, which grows somewhere between 1.8 to 2 times of the GDP. 

To tap this segment, Finnish segment Huhtamaki has been consolidating its presence in the country through acquisitions and expansions in the last few years. While it recently took over Val Pack Solutions - the supplier of a comprehensive range of paper cups - to enter foodservice packaging market in India, it acquired Positive Packaging Industries – one of the leading players in flexible packaging sector - for Rs 2009 crore in July 2014.

With annual consolidated revenues of Euro 300 million, Huhtamaki PPL Ltd is one of the largest manufacturers, in terms of volume, of finished flexible packaging in Africa and Asia Pacific region (excluding Japan). In India, the company has 14 fully-integrated manufacturing facilities in locations such as Ambernath, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Khopoli, Navi Mumbai, Parwanoo, Rudrapur, Silvassa, Taloja, Thane, etc.