Engineering Ideas

Mukesh Kripalani, CEO, Parekhplast India Limited explains how the company is leaving its mark with innovative packaging solutions.

- Swati Deshpande

Parekhplast India was established in 1981 with a single machine and high aspirations. Speaking about the journey so far, Mukesh Kripalani, Chief Executive Officer, Parekhplast India Limited says, “The company has come a long way since it was founded nearly four decades ago. Today, Parekhplast India Limited is a leader in the field of rigid plastic packaging and caters to a range of industries including Paints, Pharmaceutical & Nutraceuticals, Cosmetics, Food & Dairy and Chemical & Pesticide. To cater to such diverse sectors, we have four state-of-the-art facilities. These are located at Palghar & Khandala in Maharashtra, Hyderabad in Telangana and Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. The facility at Visakhapatnam is the new one that we inaugurated few months back.” Highlighting the company’s technological prowess, he adds, “These manufacturing capacities are spread over 200,000 sq. ft. We employ over 100 injection moulding, injection blow moulding and blow moulding machines along with decoration capacities such as dry offset printing heat transfer labelling, screen printing, etc.” As the company caters to the pharmaceutical industry, it has to have a facility that follows stringent regulations. “Our plants are equipped with humidity controlled clean room environment to cater to the needs of pharmaceutical customers. In fact, even food packaging requires clean facility if now clean room environment. Therefore, our plants are FSSC 22000 & CGMP certified and follow EU norms.”