ACG Films & Foils, recently became a complete packaging solution provider for oral solid dosage formulation with the launch of state-of-the-art lamination facility at Shirwal near Pune. In an interaction with Swati Rana, SR Shivshankar, CEO, ACG Films & Foils spoke about the facility, challenges faced by the sector and company’s future plans
Recently ACG has launched state-of-art lamination facility at Shirwal. Brief us on that.
The new machine is a high precision machine with excellent process controls, ensuring the control of specification within the allowed global standards of the final product. By manufacturing the aluminium packaging laminates on this machine, ACG will be ensuring high productivity on the packing line at our customers’ end and minimal wastage and appropriate protection of end medicines as per the requirements of the end customers.
The technology of the machine is lacquering, laminating or a combination of both. With the high drying temperature and installation of a special dryer, we can produce lid foils and cold form laminates with identical performance as produced by our competitors in Europe. Yet another feature of the machine is that it is a combination two of the machines and has the capability to produce converting materials with a very good performance.
ACG entered this segment in 1993, how has the journey been so far? What are the challenges you came across these years?
The ACG films and foils business was started in 1993. It was started as a part of the capsules business but over a period of time it has been structured as a separate legal entity. We are the pioneers in introducing moisture-barrier and oxygen-barrier films for packaging of medicine in the Indian market. The objective was to improve the shelf-life and quality of the medicines being used by the end consumers in India. Over the past 25 years, we have introduced various innovative products for safe packaging of medicines at optimum cost which has made us a global player in this business.
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