Metal Container Manufacturers’ Association (MCMA) editor, Venu Ayyar noted that global disruptions like the Middle East war have immediate, negative consequences for Indian businesses, causing soaring airfares, shortages of essential commodities like cooking gas, and upended supply chains for imported accessories and raw materials.
Venu Ayyar: How metal packaging can liven up sales
Today, everyday products have short lives but long-lasting impacts. Increasing materials circularity will decrease the amount of single-use packaging and increase the materials’ life cycle. However, what is often perceived with packaging, is single-use purpose. Packaging is there to fulfill its mission – one time only. Either it is pulled off in order to start using the product it holds inside, or it is thrown away as soon as the packaging content runs out. The result is the same. This is the biggest advantage of metal packaging, according to Venu Ayyar, associate director of the Metal Contain
Metal as packaging is a boon to the industry, says Venu Ayyar
Venu Ayyar of MCMA dictates his views and insights on the advantages of metal as a packaging material, and how it is back in demand due to the post-Covid retaliation.
Case-study: How Shetron made cans against all odds
Shetron Limited is bullish even though it has been affected by the impact of securing tinplate and tin-free steel due to the imposition of BIS standards; plus the trickle-down effect of the Omicron virus. Today, most of the metal packaging industry belongs to the MSME sector, therefore, they are affected due to working capital constraints which have happened because of the increase in domestic prices of tinplate / tin-free steel by almost 100%. In spite of all the odds, Shetron continues the good work; including bagging awards for its metal can innovations with easy-open end and f