DS Group's rPET jar for its market leading Pulse hard boiled candy Photo DS Group
DS Group's rPET jar for its market leading Pulse hard boiled candy Photo DS Group

On 5 June 2021, this year’s world environment day, the DS Group headquartered in Noida in the Delhi NCR, introduced its rPET jar using a combination of virgin and recycled PET granules for its popular Pulse candy or confectionery packaging. Recycled PET in common industry parlance is called rPET and is environmentally favored and has a much lower carbon footprint than the exclusive use of virgin PET. The added and most important benefit of this step by a leading Indian brand is that it moves both the consumer product and packaging industries toward a circular and more sustainable use of materials. Circularity comes from collecting previously used containers and processing them into suitable polymer granules, which can be used laterally for products of equal value. And in this case, have the qualities of transparency and food contact compliances needed for the DS confectionary product. Pulse, with its localized flavors, is, according to market researchers, the leading hard-boiled candy in the Indian market for the past several years. The DS Group chose to start its more…

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Naresh Khanna
Editor of Indian Printer and Publisher since 1979 and Packaging South Asia since 2007. Trained as an offset printer and IBM 360 computer programmer. Active in the movement to implement Indian scripts for computer-aided typesetting. Worked as a consultant and trainer to the Indian print and newspaper industry. Visiting faculty of IDC at IIT Powai in the 1990s. Also founder of IPP Services, Training and Research and has worked as its principal industry researcher since 1999. Author of book: Miracle of Indian Democracy. Elected vice-president of the International Packaging Press Organization in May 2023. One of the judges for Packaging Sustainability Awards 2024 and 2025.