Piyush Goyal, Minister of Commerce and Trade. |Photograph courtesy of PTI
Indian Institute of Packaging (IIP), an autonomous physique underneath the Ministry of Commerce and Trade (MoCI), inaugurated its Bengaluru heart on Friday (October 31, 2025).
Commerce and Trade Minister Piyush Goyal, whereas inaugurating the middle right here, stated the brand new facility will play an necessary position in packaging training, analysis, examinations and certification.
IIP Bangalore will combine AI-powered testing, information evaluation, and sensible packaging demonstrations to construct capability for innovation, talent growth, and trade collaboration in next-generation packaging applied sciences.
The institute, positioned in Bangalore, was constructed on 4 acres of land and was designed to function a hub for testing, coaching, analysis and know-how switch. The middle will characteristic superior supplies testing, chemical evaluation, and transportation testing laboratories, serving various trade sectors reminiscent of meals processing, prescribed drugs, logistics, e-commerce, and client items.
IIP officers stated a selected spotlight of the brand new facility is a devoted meals packaging line developed to offer hands-on coaching, stay demonstrations and expertise growth. The road is provided with bag-forming and packaging machines, modified ambiance packaging (MAP) methods, vacuum packaging models, shrink packaging and barcode printing gear, giving members a hands-on alternative to be taught the newest packaging operations and high quality assurance methods.
Headquartered in Mumbai, IIP already operates regional facilities in Delhi, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Visakhapatnam and Lucknow. Over the many years, IIP has performed a pivotal position in advancing packaging requirements, selling sustainable and scientific packaging practices, and driving India’s emergence as a worldwide hub of packaging excellence and innovation, in response to Vice Chairman Prabhakar Bantwal and Professor Tanweer, IIP Further Director Mr. Alam.
The packaging trade offers direct and oblique employment to greater than 5 million individuals throughout design, manufacturing, inspection, logistics and retail sectors.
In response to trade insiders, the important thing development drivers for the trade are the FMCG, meals processing and pharmaceutical sectors, which collectively account for over 70% of the packaging demand. The e-commerce and logistics growth has required progressive, light-weight and sustainable packaging to make sure the secure supply of merchandise, growing client consciousness of hygiene, security and comfort, driving demand for contemporary and useful packaging codecs and contributing to the expansion of the packaging trade.
