India faces plastic packaging crunch: Crude oil prices and hoarding create scarcity for F&B firms | Company Business News

Source: livemint.com

India's plastic packaging sector is hitting a wall due to shortages triggered by surging global crude oil prices. This disrupts key materials like PET for bottles and polyolefins for bags and films, hitting food, beverages, and consumer goods hard. It matters because packaging is the backbone of these industries, and delays mean lost sales and higher costs for everyone.