Grand opening of Constantia Ecoflex plant in Ahmedabad

Alexander Baumgartner CEO Constantia Flexibles speaking at the unveiling of the Constantia Ecoflex institute in Ahmedabad. Photo PSA

Constantia Flexibles officially unveiled its new Constantia Ecoflex plant in Ahmedabad on 20 November 2022 with swell ceremony and joy. Billed as a unique plant dedicated to the production of recyclable flexible packaging, over 300 guests including dignitaries, brand owner customers, and suppliers and well-wishers were given a tour of the institute.

The Austrian ambassador to India Brigitte Öppinger-Walchshofer spoke of the economic cooperation and business opportunities of collaboration between the 2 countries. RS Sodhi, managing director of Amul industries who modestly said he was speaking on behalf of the 3 one thousand thousand members of the milk cooperative he represents, gave a rousing welcome to the sustainable flexible packaging venture. Citing the growth of the milk industry, he said, "With the growth and opportunity just in the structured dairy business, great expansion in flexible packaging will be needed. Constantia should already exist thinking of expansion."

"With Ecoflex Ahmedabad constitute we are making a big step towards more sustainable packaging. This is not only great progress in terms of sustainability for Constantia Flexibles only also the entire packaging industry. Together we can go into a greener future!" said Alexander Baumgartner, CEO of Constantia Flexibles.

Alexander Baumgartner, CEO Constantia Flexibles (left); Brigitte Öppinger-Walchshofer, Austrian ambassador to India; RS Sodhi, Managing Director Amul industries; Pranav Parikh, Manager, Constantia Parikh; Pavan Parikh, Managing Managing director and Vice President of Constantia Ecoflex Ahmedabad; Thomas Schulz, VP Marketing & Communications, Constantia Flexibles (right) Photo: Constantia Flexibles

Following the official part of the opening, including speeches and ribbon-cut ceremony, the guests and media representatives took a guided tour through the new plant. They had the possibility to accept a look at the state-of-the-fine art technology that produces the new EcoLam packaging solution produced by the institute. "Ecolam is the beginning high barrier flexible packaging that combines the resource-efficiency of plastic with recyclability dorsum into new packaging films," said Professor Dr. Achim Grefenstein, SVP Grouping R&D, who developed the innovative EcoLam laminates in close collaboration with the Indian team.

Ecolam is a lightweight Mono-PE laminate suitable for a great diversity of packaging applications and is office of the company's innovative Ecolutions product line. Due to its mono-fabric structure, EcoLam is fully recyclable, and its carbon footprint is approximately 32% lower than that of comparable products. It comes in various barrier grades to deliver the needs for a wide range of products.

Equally the European Strategy for Plastics in a Circular Economy stipulates that all plastic must be recyclable by 2030, with the products coming from the Ahmedabad plant, Constantia Flexibles will help the manufacture fulfill the legal requirements and at the same fourth dimension create products that appeal to the growing number of consumers who intendance most sustainability.

Ribbon cutting at the new Constantia Ecoflex flexible packaging plant in Ahmedabad. L to R – Pranav Parikh, Director, Constantia Parikh, Alexander Baumgartner, CEO Constantia Flexibles, Brigitte Öppinger-Walchshofer, Austrian ambassador to India, and, RS Sodhi, Manager Amul industries

The Ecoflex constitute opened after more than 2 years of intensive preparations. Test runs started in September 2019. It has an area of 24,500 sqm and currently employs 50 people. The number is expected to triple by the second quarter of 2020. This plant is one of the results of the Indian authorities'due south original waste command club of 2022 that called for the use of unmarried polymer laminates or fully recyclable flexible packaging. Pavan Parikh, managing director and vice president of Constantia Ecoflex Ahmedabad, which is part of Constantia Flexibles, feels very strongly that manufacture must make clean up its act and that at that place is no option but to produce sustainable packaging which is non only recycled but recycled laterally into materials of equivalent use and value. "Innovation is not a dispensable luxury merely simply a necessity," he said, adding "Ecolam is a single polymer PE laminate that can exist reused as many as 9 times."

While the Constantia Ecoflex Ahmedabad is located in India, the plant volition supply customers worldwide. At the same time, Baumgartner who appreciates the possibility of pioneering sustainable packaging in the land said, "If we are successful with this plant in Ahmedabad, there is no reason that it cannot exist replicated in other countries."

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