Packaging

ITC's Packaging & Printing Business is the largest value added converter of paperboard packaging in South Asia. It converts over 70,000 tonnes of paper, paperboard and laminates per annum into a variety of value-added packaging solutions for the food & beverage, personal products, cigarette, liquor and consumer goods industries.

The Division, which was set up in 1925 as a strategic backward integration for ITC's Cigarettes business, is today India's most sophisticated packaging house. State-of-the-art technology, world-class quality and a highly skilled and dedicated team have combined to position ITC as the first-choice supplier of high value added packaging.

The Division supplies value-added packaging to ITC's various FMCG businesses. Its client list includes several well-known national and international companies like Nokia, Colgate Palmolive, Pernod Ricard, Diageo, British American Tobacco, Philip Morris International, Agio Cigars, UB Group, Tata Tetley, Tata Tea, Reckitt Benckiser, Radico Khaitan, Akbar Brothers, Surya Nepal, VST Industries, etc.

With three packaging factories at Tiruvottiyur near Chennai (in the South), Munger in Bihar (in the East), and Haridwar (in the North of India), the Company offers a comprehensive product range in packaging backed by its packaging expertise over the decades and cutting edge technology making it truly a "One stop shop for Packaging".

Product Lines

ITC's Packaging Business has 3 major product lines

• Carton Board Packaging
  • Printed Cartons
  • Fluted cartons
• Flexible Packaging
• Tobacco Packaging

Carton Board Packaging

ITC occupies a leadership position in catering to the needs of the liquor, mobile phones & food. ITC offers a range of value additions for carton board packaging such as UV offset printing, Foil Stamping, Embossing, Window patching & lined cartons, etc.

Flexible Packaging

Flexible Packaging is an area of high growth, supported with investments in technology and equipment from world class suppliers. ITC offers a completely integrated solution for laminates from Pre-press, In-house Blown Film, Cast film, Extrusion Lamination, Hot Melt Coating, specialty pouching and bag making. This is backed by in house cylinder making and pre press support.

Tobacco packaging

ITC offers a range of products line including flip top boxes (Square, Round, Beveled and Pillow Pack Hinge lids etc), Outers, Soft Cup labels, Pack inserts, Printed cork tipping, printed overwraps, inner frames. ITC makes value added shoulder boxes for cigars and cigarettes. ITC supplies packaging for over 80 billion cigarettes a year domestically, and supplies packaging for 15 billion cigarette sticks a year for the export market to leading tobacco majors.

Innovation & New Product Development

ITC has enhanced the value of some of the most favoured brands with superior look-and-feel packaging, using the best raw materials and process combinations, and an in-house pre-press Design Centre.

A Product Introduction Process team pioneers packaging innovations. The team uses a unique process to pilot the client's packaging through its manufacturing system. Specifications are evolved based on clients' needs based on which a variety of packaging solutions is generated. The efficacy of the packaging is tested simulating the client's factory conditions. ITC has contemporary laboratories for its 3 product lines for testing packaging requirements.

Green Packaging

ITC Packaging has pioneered offering of Green Packaging which includes usage of raw material from sustainable sources and conversion of the same in a facility which is 100% powered by renewable energy (Wind Energy). This clean energy initiative along with the other sustainability initiatives helps the Packaging Business to significantly contribute to ITC being a carbon Positive, Water Positive and Solid Waste Recycling Positive Company.

Awards

ITC's Packaging business has won numerous awards for its quality, environmental management systems and product excellence:

• All the 3 factories are ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OSHAS 18001 certified.
• ITC Packaging is the First in India to achieve Level 8 certification on the International Quality Rating System (IQRS).
• Chennai Unit & DHQ achieved Level 8 in 2007 , Munger Unit in 2009.

For trade enquiries, please write to

Exports & Tobacco Packaging : Vasudha.Narasimhan@itc.in

Carton Board & Flexible Packaging : Amit.Shah@itc.in

Links to Press Releases

• ITC forays into use of Wind Energy in its Packaging and Printing Business
  Oct 06, 2008
• ITC's Packaging business receives highest quality rating in India
  May 21, 2008

Links to Press Reports

• Nokia cellphones packed in ITC boxes
  Economic Times
  Apr 10, 2009
• ITC chalks out strategy to scale up packaging business
  The Economic Times
  Apr 08, 2009