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Indian Institute of Packaging (IIP), an autonomous assemblage nether the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MoCI), opened its Bengaluru Centre connected Friday (October 31, 2025).
The caller installation would play a captious relation successful packaging education, research, testing, and certification, said Piyush Goyal, Minister of Commerce and Industry portion inaugurating the centre here.
IIP Bengaluru, would integrate AI-enabled testing, information analytics, and astute packaging demonstrations—building capableness for innovation, accomplishment development, and manufacture collaboration successful next-generation packaging technologies.
Built connected a 4-acre spot of land, the institute successful Bengaluru was designed to service arsenic a hub for testing, training, research, and exertion transfer. Equipped with precocious worldly testing, chemic analysis, and transport investigating laboratories, the centre would cater to divers concern sectors including nutrient processing, pharmaceuticals, logistics, e-commerce, and user goods.
IIP officials said a peculiar item of the caller installation is its dedicated Food Packaging Line, developed to supply hands-on training, unrecorded demonstrations, and accomplishment development. This enactment is equipped with form-fill-seal machines, modified ambiance packaging (MAP) systems, vacuum packaging units, shrink packaging, and barcode printing equipment, enabling participants to summation applicable vulnerability to modern packaging operations and prime assurance techniques.
Headquartered successful Mumbai, IIP already operates determination centres successful Delhi, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Visakhapatnam, Lucknow.Over the decades, IIP has played a pivotal relation successful advancing packaging standards, fostering sustainable and technological packaging practices, and driving India’s emergence arsenic a planetary hub for packaging excellence and innovation, according to Prabhakar Bantwal, Vice Chairman, and Prof. Tanweer Alam, Additional Director, of IIP.
The packaging manufacture provides nonstop and indirect employment to implicit 5 cardinal radical crossed design, manufacturing, testing, logistics, and retail sectors.
According to manufacture players, the cardinal maturation drivers of the manufacture person been FMCG, nutrient processing, and pharmaceutical sectors, which unneurotic relationship for implicit 70% of packaging demand. E-commerce and logistics boom, requiring innovative, lightweight, and sustainable packaging for harmless merchandise transportation besides contributed to the maturation of the packaging manufacture successful summation to rising user consciousness of hygiene, safety, and convenience, spurring request for modern and functional packaging formats, they said.
