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FEATURES
“We Are With you” Indian Government Backs Plastics Industry
If the multitude of balloons of all hues released during
the inaugural ceremony of PLASTIVISION INDIA 2017
at Goregaon on Thursday morning signified rainbow of
success, then the 10th edition of PLASTIVISION INDIA
has arrived at the world stage. “We are with you” as
the laconic, yet firm statement by Ananat G. Geete,
Minister of Heavy industries and Public Enterprises who
inaugurated the exhibition. Anant G. Geete who had
planned to fly to Mumbai from New Delhi directly on
Thursday took a detour to Goregaon in order to show his
support. He has had earlier indicated that with code of
conduct, he needed to be economic with his words. And
yet, with “We are with you” statement, the verterans of
the plastics industry and international guests standing
next to him and the hundreds in the audience could not
but help be reassured.
The inaugural got off to an emotional start with the
National Anthem and a traditional diya being lighted.
Haren Sanghavi said by all indications, the PLASTIVISION
INDIA 2017 was set to be a grand show for both, visitors
AIPMA to fight Plastics Ban
Plastics is the much more than the ubiquitous plastics
bag handed out to by your friendly neighborhood
groce , and it is absolutely essential , ‘ was the massage
send out loud and clear by the all India plastic association has lately seen slew of government bans on grounds of
conclave , 2017 that unfiled on the sidelines of the ongoing environmental damage.
10th PLASTIVSION INDIA 2017 at hotel Westin on Saturday
January 21,2017
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and exhibitors. Kailash B. Murarka, the man and his team
who tirelessly logged in hundreds of hours to make this
show a grand success said that it was a dream to make the
sho of an international standard. “It is an earnest attempt
on the part of the organizers
to make plastivision India
2017 a world-class event.
And we are getting better,”.
Said Kailash B. Murarka. Ming
Yang said he was delighted
to be associated with the
show as were the scores of
exhibitors from china. He
added that the two countries
complemented each other in the plastics industry. Amit
Kumar Ghosh, on the other hand, focused on the steps
that Uttar Pradesh had taken to attract the best of the
plastics industry. He said that the U.P. government had
strengthened the connectivity and the infrastructure that
was needed for the plastics industry.
Organized by the All INDIA plastics manufacture
association(AIPMA) the even served as both - a platform
for discussing opportunities , challenge and road ahead
for plastics as well as an image strengthening and if
you like, damage control exercise for the sector that
Kicking off the conclave was Arvind Mehta, chairman
Governing council AIPMA declared that day 2 of they
exhibition had seen as many as 35000 to 40,000 visitors .
Kamal P. Nanavaty special advisor board PLASTVSION INDIA
2017 made a presentation highlighting how macroeconomic
and other indicators were aligned so as to put plastic on
high growth trajectory . Manoj Kumar Mandal head CIPET
emphasized that with a little more help from AIPMA and
the fraternity a lot more could be done in terms a lot more
could be done terms of the current shortage of skilled
labour that the sector was facing PLASTIVSION INDIA 2019
in Delhi will be co-organized Department of the chemical
and the petrochemicals or CIPET (central institute of