The story
Central India's farm economy needs sacks for grain, soybean and fertiliser, pipes for irrigation and films for packing. Indore's plastic processors grew to serve that demand, buying polymer from petrochemical suppliers and selling to mandis, fertiliser firms and food processors across the region.
In numbers
The Indore plastic packaging cluster had about 135 units, a turnover of Rs 2,500 crore and direct employment of 11,000 (20,000 indirect).
Brief Industrial Profile of Indore District (MSME-DI, Ministry of MSME) · 2016
Ways in for a newcomer
- Printing and conversion of woven sacks and laminated bags
- Plastic waste recycling into pellets for the cluster
- Testing and quality certification services
- Trading of polymer granules
Problems the cluster faces
- Raw material price volatility
- Lack of testing facilities
- Shortage of trained workers
- Mostly domestic market; no exports
Businesses to start here
HDPE Woven Sack Plant (Extrusion to Stitching) →PP Woven Bag Making (Printing, Cutting, Stitching) →HDPE Pipe Manufacturing →Three-Layer Co-Extruded Blown Film →Plastic Waste Recycling (Granules) →Laminated Flexible Packaging →