Why packaging industry is important in India? Why they are needed to address the hygiene quality of the products?

Mespack

As we listen to the expert, Mr. Anthony D’ souza, managing director, of the mespack, about the role of packing companies to address the sustainability and recyclable needs.

COVID-19 has been an eye opening to us about the seriousness of the need of packaging industry.

Mespack India Pvt. Ltd, an international manufacturer of packaging machinery, end-of-line, and soluble pods equipment for consumer packaged goods companies.

The company is located in Thane, Maharashthra, India.

The interview was conducted in Technology Fest in Delhi, yashobhoomi convention centre.

Q: Tell me about the company and the product.

This is MESPAC, part of a development group. We are the stalwarts in the packaging industry. We provide high-end equipments for different packaging applications.

Made the flexible, made the end-of-line, and many aspects. We have a big base in India, a huge installation company. And all global customers, like Unibail, Nestle, and all of my customers.

Basically, there has been a new need and demand coming in for people, small timers who have multiple products to do but lesser volume.

So looking at that, we have launched a new machine here called the RM260. And the idea here is that a person can do different varieties using a machine. where the pouches come ready-made from the market. They fill it and then using the machine they can open it, fill it, seal it and out.

So the entire process can be automized except loading. So the seal integrities are good and you get a nice finished pouch. So that’s how we launch here.

So we are at Snack and Bake here. And the show is at a new venue. Venue is fantastic. The challenge has been, I think, for people to reach here, being the longest. But I hope today the crowd has improved compared to yesterday. And I hope that we have the same continuity tomorrow.

Q: Where are you based in India?

We are based in Mumbai. We have a factory in Vadodara. We are here for the last 12 years. selling our machines.

Q:Who are your end customers?

I just gave you the names. These are all my customers and many more. I gave you few of them. But I would say, majority of the products which you use at home, may it be cosmetics, may it be ketchup or may it be home care, food, you will find us doing the manufacturing.

Q: How the new product is also connected to recyclable or sustainable?

We are sustainably well advanced and we are showing pouches of recyclable only and we are recyclable only. Whoever ask, new machines are all coming with recyclable print and the old we are retrofitting themselves with recyclable. So, recyclability is not a concern to us.

Q: Anything regarding the price of the product?

It could vary. I would say it depends on the application to application. It doesn’t have a specific product because, just to give an example, somebody may like to pack a powder.

Somebody would like to pack… granules. Somebody would like to pack some nuts, which is free-flowing. Somebody wants some keen. To do all that has different kinds of fillers, different kinds of applications. So it’s difficult to give a price index on application-wise. That’s how it is.

Q; Any key insights from your long journey in the Indian market, like the challenges, obstacles, and how you have come up?

India is a growing market. It depends upon how you handle it.

I would say pandemic has been an eye-opener, and after the pandemic, the value of packaging has come into existence.

Till that, people were not really valuing the packaging concept. As I am also the president of the Packaging Association, Institute of India, Packaging Association of India, we are machine manufacturers, so where we have seen that packaging is nothing less than second or third in the line in the industry.

Because it has a major unorganized sector, it has not been valued and seen. Even we have been talking with commerce ministries and they have understood that how far the packaging is so scopes are phenomenal. It depends upon who wants to do what.