PET(polyethylene terephthalate) is a packaging medium for a wide variety of liquidfood products such as edible oils, syrups, mineral water, alcoholic beverages,juices and honey. PFA Act of India has approved PET as suitable for packing offood and pharmaceutical products. It has now been adopted for storing all typesof foods. Mineral water and soft drinks account for a major share of the totaldemand. Others include processed foods, edible oils and sauces. Kitchencontainers are another major usage centre. In India, PET started being used ina perceptible way only very recently. It is projected that the demand will growappreciably, especially for packaging soft drinks. Soft drinks are witnessing agradual shift towards the non-returnable bottles due to changing lifestyles andconvenience. PET packaging has been doing very well as it offers theflexibilities of innovation, both in terms of pack design and size.
India producesaround 500,000 tonnes of PET annually. The overall capacity of the industry israted at about 650,000 tonnes per year.
PET preform has large demand for themanufacturing for PET bottle for food and Pharmaceutical Company. The size ofthe container-produced ranges from 50 ml to 150 ml which is further used formaking required size blow moulded bottles.
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