Clariant to set up healthcare packaging plant in Tamil Nadu

08-Dec-15

Clariant plans to invest about CHF 10 million in a healthcare packaging unit at Cuddalore in Tamil Nadu. The plant will manufacture moisture control products to support the growing pharmaceutical packaging market in India. Clariant healthcare packaging, a member of masterbatches business unit, manufactures a full range of controlled atmosphere packaging solutions including pharmaceutical desiccants, equilibrium sorbents, adsorbent polymers, oxygen scavengers and pharmaceutical closures and containers. The new plant in Cuddalore will initially produce desiccant canisters and packets, compliant with all relevant current good manufacturing practice (cGMP) and US FDA standards. Ketan Premani, head of Clariant healthcare packaging sales in India, said, “India is the largest provider of generic drugs globally making it a key market for Clariant’s desiccant products. We want to ensure that we serve our customers here as directly and efficiently as possible. When the plant is complete, they will now have the ability to procure Clariant’s global-standard products directly produced in India.”