Paper and Packaging in India
The Packaging Boom
Online shopping, food delivery and organised retail have made corrugated boxes and paper packaging the fastest-growing part of paper.
Much of the paper you touch is not for writing at all, but for packing.
Corrugated boxes
Every parcel, appliance and produce crate needs boxes, made from layers of kraft paper and fluted board.
E-commerce
Online retail multiplied the number of small parcels, each needing a box, filler and labels.
Food and consumer goods
Cartons for biscuits, cosmetics and medicines rely on folding boxboard and coated paper.
Why it grows
As incomes rise and retail becomes more organised, packaged goods increase, and packaging demand rises with them.
When a shopper orders a phone online, a corrugated box and paper filler are used before it leaves the warehouse.
Packaging demand has grown even as some printing has shrunk.
- Packaging is the growth segment.
- E-commerce drives box demand.
- Retail formalisation needs cartons.
- Digital media hit only some paper types.
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