Canpac sets up Altpac for sustainable packaging

Ahmedabad-based packaging specialist, Canpac has established Altpac, a division focussed on sustainable packaging, to offer eco-friendly packaging, within the eCommerce and retail domains.

Altpac will focus on providing sustainable packaging alternatives, such as eCommerce mailers, retail shopping bags, and eCommerce boxes, to its customers. The new packaging arm will leverage Canpac’s pan-India packaging operations to fulfil customer demands.

Ecommerce is India’s fastest-growing channel for commercial transactions. Direct-to-consumer brands and quick-commerce companies are changing the landscape of India’s retail market.

Canpac established Altpac in joint-collaboration between Priyanka Maheshwari, Raghav Maheshwari, and Mehul Agarwal, professionals specialised in online packaging supplies. The mission and vision is to achieve new Alpac team, having scaled their own sustainable packaging company and supplying to some of the key players in the Indian eCommerce space, are excited to be part of the Canpac group and believe they can make the world a better place by replacing plastic with recycled paper packaging. Canpac has printing and packaging plants in Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, employs 700 people and over a hundred technical experts to run the stations. Its packaging solutions offer multiple options including duplex printed cartons, corrugated cartons, flexible laminate pouches, paper bags, and rigid boxes. The company is on track to reach Rs 1,000-crore turnover in the next three years.