Clariant’s moisture control

Clariant, one of the leaders in specialty chemicals, plans to invest about Rs.65 crore in a new healthcare packaging manufacturing plant in Cuddalore in Tamil Nadu, located about 25 km from the city of Puducherry. The plant will manufacture Clariant’s moisture control products to support the growing pharmaceutical packaging market in India. “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 efficiently as possible. When the plant is complete, the company will have the ability to procure Clariant’s global standard products directly produced in India,” says Ketan Premani, head of Clariant Healthcare Pack-aging Sales in India. Clariant Healthcare Packaging, a member of Business Unit Masterbatches, manufactures a full range of con-trolled 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, which are inserted into pharmaceutical packaging to control moisture and protect the stability of the medicine…

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