India, May 9 -- Aarthi Janakiraman, Research Director, Techvision, Frost & Sullivan

With growing consumer and industrial sectors, packaging is indispensable to ensure not only safe transport and storage of goods but also a means to track, trace, and monitor the movement of goods and products in the supply chain, providing protection from external contaminants and preserving product characteristics. Despite a myriad of packaging materials available, polymers (plastics) are one of the widely used materials for packaging because of the host of benefits it offer, ranging from design flexibility, the ability to be used in congruence with other materials to price parity and so on. The increasing use of plastic packaging, in any form, be it rig...